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I just bought a NH68. I was suprised when I did a few test bales and it actually made nice tight squares (straw) with only two pair of feeding forks on the tine bar (Fixed set and an adjustable set on the plunger side). I pitch fork fed the straw. Forks are at extreme ends of the tine bar. I really expected poor results... I have my other baler (NHS67) set with the feeding forks equally spaced on the tine bar. Bales come out square but a few will banna when picked up (loose) but I attribute that to my help handling the bales and a couple of broken haydog springs. Now, I usually roll 2 swaths from my HN469 into one windrow - approx 20 - 30 inch diameter(grass mix) and run about 4 - 6 mph trying the keep the material in the pickup on the plunger side. I've done it this way not because someone said to, it just worked for me and I knew no better. I see that it seems to be what others have suggested works. I would think that putting the material right down the middle of the pick up would be most ideal, as windrows never seem to be of uniform size anyway. Take baling straw for example, I bale it right off the stubble, run it right up the middle of the pick up. I've made no changes to the baler (other than bale tension). I set my tension springs using a ruler as opposed to counting turns once I decide that the weight is what I want. I suggest you experiment more. Try placing one set of forks about 4-6 inches off the end of the tine bar on the plunger side and splitting the distance to the fixed set on the opposite end with the remaining pair. If that doesn't work out try only adjusting the middle pair in the direction that manual suggest's will solve the problem. Maybe you've already tried this? Nobody ever said haying was easy... too many variables from weather to machines.
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