jd 214t baler

[Barry Bowen]

In your pictures of the tucker fingers, top left picture. The tucker travels over and goes under a small plate that has a tit pointing toward the back of the baler. Does the right side have that same piece for the tucker to go under? These are crucial pieces to tying properly.

If the adjustment you made on the tucker was with the threaded rod attached to the tucker itself, that would explain why it stopped tying. It was not taking the twine back over into the bill hook. Is the tucker on a plate that the entire plate can be moved forward and back for adjustment? Look again at the 336 picture under "tucker fingers" and you will see what I mean. If the baler was in front of me, I could tell, but it has been so long since I had my 14t, I do not remember if it had that adjustment.

 

[donais]

i slid the whole tucker bracket to just miss the needle when the needle was 1/2 inch above the twine disc(per book) and then with in home position adjusted the threaded rod part till it was flush to 3/8 i think the book said...

 

[Barry Bowen]

I am not quite following what you are saying and doing. What has all ways worked for me, I start the tying cycle. Bring the needles up until the tuckers start to move. Then I go a little further till the tucker starts to come across the needle to pick up the twine. I guess the needle is a little past the twine disc, but never payed that much attention. I was more concerned with the relation between the tucker and the distance it clears the needle by. You usually want this pretty close as it passes across the needle to get the twine. Too much distance here and you can miss the twine and not get it back to the bill hook. Does this make sense? Are we on the same page now?

 

[donais]

i think we are on the same page my paraphrasing isn't very good.

 

[Barry Bowen]

Same page is good. I hope you have better weather out there for making hay than we have here. First cut alfalfa and 30 acres Orchard ready to go, no weather next ten days unless something changes. Got any miracles to send this way?

 

[donais]

here in ramona we are done (probably) with rain till oh around october. i think i might have found why the tucker fingers were not adjusting to look like the book... the shaft that pushes the was twisted i un twisted it and adjusted them and now they travel further and snap back into place. hand fed 3 bales worth into it and along with the new knife and wiper adjusted tied and dropped every knot so far. tomorrow im going to try and bale about 1/4 acre to try it out. hope i dont have to walk behind anymore and hand tie....

 

[Barry Bowen]

Sounds very encouraging. The entire operation works differently when you have confidence in your ability to understand and fix the equipment, and the equipment works as intended.

On that right knotter does it have the metal guide over top of the tucker? This guide also makes sure the twine stays in to get on the bill hook. Your pictures showed this piece on the left knotter, but I could not tell for the right knotter.

 

[donais]

yes it has it on both sides

 

[donais]

well great news i put 170 poly twine bent the tucker finger arm so they are even against the back stop then adjusted the tucker fingers to where they are supposed to be. today i baled 168 bales and did'n't miss one tie. thank you barry and everyone else for all the help and support.......

 

[donais]

here are some pics. even got my daughter baling