blown bale stats

jason, NW Ontario · Jun 26, 2009

I got a small field done tonight - the first of the season. 156 bales put up with 5 blown bales. I thought that was about normal for me and the NH 276. It got me wondering what kind of percentage of blown bales everybody else sees. My stats tonight worked out to 3.2%

Jay

Shetland Sheepdog · Jun 26, 2009

Haven't blown a single bale yet this year, so 0.0%! Course I've only baled 209 bales, BUT I've probably got 10 times the investment in my baler! (for everything there's a price) I've got a 570. Typically, what few misses I get are not the fault of the baler, but something I've done wrong!
Oh yeah! I use 7200 poly twine which is stronger and no thin spots like sisal.

RodinNS · Jun 26, 2009

I don't really keep close tabs on that... but I do find that my old Ford 532 will break 1 in 100 quite predictably, for no apperant reason. Beyond that it will break bales if it's too wet or it gets a big slug through. There's probably some more adjustments I could make to cure that along with dumping money into it... but I don't feel too bad about 1-3% breakage on a 30 year old, 200K+ baler. It's had it's days where it broke 90% for a while...

Rod

Anonymous-0 · Jun 26, 2009

When we bought our second 570 a few years ago the salesman said they would only miss 1 in 1000. Well, that is what ours did then all heck broke loose and it was 1 in 10. Finally after a year of dealers changing this and that a whole new knotter system was put on and we are back to 1 in 1000 unless a hand tied knot catches or comes undone or you try to bale hay that just shouldn't be baled.

Shetland Sheepdog · Jun 26, 2009

Heh Heh! The first owner of my 570 had the exact same issue and got a new knotter, but it so upset him that he traded it for a JD 348! I think that I got a pretty good deal on it from the JD dealer cuz he didn't want a red baler in the yard!

Thresherman · Jun 26, 2009

last year my 273 would miss a bale every time a ball of twine changed. Might have been my fault for the knots. Also found that using 7200 twine helped, always used sisal, not poly. Better twine, less misses
No hay this year, no farm this year

Fordfarmer · Jun 27, 2009

Had 8 in 1 load earlier this year, when I needed twine in a hurry and only 9000 sisal was available locally. Still have part of a ball of sisal on one side, 9000 poly one the other now... 0 broken because of the baler in the last 500+ bales. (NH 565)

showcrop · Jun 27, 2009

I went about 750 one stretch last year without missing one. last year I started spraying WD-40 on the knife whenever it had rained, because prior to that it seemed that if it had rained the second or third bale out would blow apart. but usually when one blows out its because I'm in a light windrow and the thrower melts the twine.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 27, 2009

We have done 2 cuttings, about 1300 bales and no misses. Case IH bailer

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