FTV
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Hello, I just spent four frustrating days baling with my "new" IH 440. Lost a lot of knots on the cut side and had the twine wrap around that knot holder a lot. But worst of all the bales were all curved. They were curved out to the cut side as if that side's knots slipped or something. The hay was very dry and slippery so I had the tension set pretty hard tried it lighter too but then the bales were just looser and curved.
Set the hay feeder arm on every setting but it didn't seem to make much difference. Also banged pretty hard and rocked the tractor a lot. And broke a few shear pins, whenever it got too loaded up.
...apologies for the long explanation, still tired from all the work...
Any idea what could be causing my banana bales and how to resolve it?
Oh, the string on the non cut side seemed to end up really close to the edge of the bale ( probably because the ends were not 90 degrees. I wish I would have a picture of them to explain.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
Set the hay feeder arm on every setting but it didn't seem to make much difference. Also banged pretty hard and rocked the tractor a lot. And broke a few shear pins, whenever it got too loaded up.
...apologies for the long explanation, still tired from all the work...
Any idea what could be causing my banana bales and how to resolve it?
Oh, the string on the non cut side seemed to end up really close to the edge of the bale ( probably because the ends were not 90 degrees. I wish I would have a picture of them to explain.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.