class 44 baler good bad

Anonymous-0 · Aug 1, 2011

looking at a claas 44 baler is it any good or not? twine and net twine is working but seems to be missing some electric controls any body know much about them?

RodinNS · Aug 1, 2011

They're a good baler for their day which was a while ago... We've put over 30K bales through our 44S. It's needed a few rollers replaced and several bearings; mostly on the pickup... normal pickup parts as well. The rollers were due to rock damage on this one. Hydraulics do get tired after a while too so make sure the gate doesn't drift down. You need to remember that this is a soft core baler and it needs to maintain pressure on the gate to properly form the bale... and if it gets slack it will make particularly soft bales. Beyond that it's been a very good, reasonably trouble free baler for us considering the abuse it's taken. It's also got a lot of capacity for something of it's vintage. I've put fairly regular 50 bph through it when everything is working right.

I would expect that if you've got electric problems with this one it will be expensive to fix. The twine timer on mine is bad and I simply wired around it to run it manually because I'm scared to ask what a new one is worth...

Rod

E-Ont Allan · Aug 1, 2011

Bought one a few years back and have had really good luck with it so far. Agree with Rod that you need enough hydraulic pressure to make a half-way decent bale. Not as fancy as some of the newer balers, but gets the job done with few problems. Only issue i"ve had is with the twine mechanism. Unless the knife is razor sharp and the holder placed just right (info I gleaned from RodInNS), it won"t cut the twine worth a darn. I know the newer ones don"t have this issue, but it is in the only problem my 44s gives me. It"s good having enough power in front of it, too. I run an IH986 (approx 105hp) and it is a nice match.

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