MBMassey
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Hey Gents,
It's been a bad couple of days on my first ever attempt at putting up hay, first I couldn't seem to get the baler to make solid bales but with some messing around and speeding up I got them to start spitting out semi ok. Then once I really got going the needle on the l/h side decided to break the top off and then I messed up about 3 or 4 bales. I found 2 bent over needles inside the box when I got it, so I managed to fix the broken one and after I bent it again not having it a 100% I finally got it all figured out.
Now that I have it coming up smooth and slightly rubbing the knotter like it says in the book and I have it timed accordingly with the r/h side for some strange reason when I set it to tie it will feed in, typically tie about 1 bale then it either somehow pulls the twine out of the needle (no it's not broken or cracked at all) or it will tie the bale and not cut the twine and I'll go to the next bale and realise I have 150' of twine stretched out the back.
Every time I re thred it through the needle it does the same thing, spit out 1 or two bales and then slips the twine out of the needle and either leaves that one un-cut bale or spit out a bunch with only one side tied.
on top of all that I had to fix a broken weld on the piece that drives the forks and when I put it back together the one retainer clip fell off while it wqas running and mangled that whole bracket...and then my 88 Massey broke the strater all to pieces.....I think I should have stayed in bed this week-end.
Can anyone out there help?? I'm lost and out of patience and the book is not helping me at all.
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It's been a bad couple of days on my first ever attempt at putting up hay, first I couldn't seem to get the baler to make solid bales but with some messing around and speeding up I got them to start spitting out semi ok. Then once I really got going the needle on the l/h side decided to break the top off and then I messed up about 3 or 4 bales. I found 2 bent over needles inside the box when I got it, so I managed to fix the broken one and after I bent it again not having it a 100% I finally got it all figured out.
Now that I have it coming up smooth and slightly rubbing the knotter like it says in the book and I have it timed accordingly with the r/h side for some strange reason when I set it to tie it will feed in, typically tie about 1 bale then it either somehow pulls the twine out of the needle (no it's not broken or cracked at all) or it will tie the bale and not cut the twine and I'll go to the next bale and realise I have 150' of twine stretched out the back.
Every time I re thred it through the needle it does the same thing, spit out 1 or two bales and then slips the twine out of the needle and either leaves that one un-cut bale or spit out a bunch with only one side tied.
on top of all that I had to fix a broken weld on the piece that drives the forks and when I put it back together the one retainer clip fell off while it wqas running and mangled that whole bracket...and then my 88 Massey broke the strater all to pieces.....I think I should have stayed in bed this week-end.
Can anyone out there help?? I'm lost and out of patience and the book is not helping me at all.
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