Jdhager87
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What is the best do it yourself baler belt lacer?
Belt lacer
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Get on ebay, and check out the older Clipper belt lacers. Much better than the type you use in a vise. For the money you spend on a vise type, for a few more dollars, you can get one of the older ones, and make the lacing job so much easier. I can't recall the name of the one I bought 2 years ago, but it isn't a Clipper. Apparently everyone was looking for a "Clipper belt lacer". I just searched for belt lacer, and found this one. I had to re-splice two belts this Spring on my Deere. Other than prepping the belt, splicing was a snap. This one is only wide enough to do 5" belts, but not that big of a deal to move over, put more lacing in the grooves, and do the rest. I got this one for $45, and as easy as it made the splice job, consider it paid for itself on the first job.
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Mine's more of a portable unit. I liked it, because I figured I could take it to the field if necessary. You carry it as it stands, then lay it down to lace belts. Mine sorta' looked like that one in the sellers pics. They didn't want to clean and oil it, with the way shipping is anymore., with chemicals. I took a few pics of it today, and as you can see, it cleaned up pretty good. I was wrong on the width, the jaws are 6" wide, so my belts must be 7". Hard to keep track of things around here.
And, this one is a Detroit Belt Lacer. I looked it up on line, and seems this one was made in the 50's.
If shipping isn't too bad, and you can make some handles for it, that's not a bad price.
And, this one is a Detroit Belt Lacer. I looked it up on line, and seems this one was made in the 50's.
If shipping isn't too bad, and you can make some handles for it, that's not a bad price.
Tx Jim
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If it were me I choose a Mato or Alligator type lacer/lacings over Clipper if baler has large enough diameter rollers to utilize these lacings. Normally these type lacings wear out(many 1000's of bales) before they pull out of belt.
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The potato growers here use Alligator. So do the round bale guys. For the same reasons as mentioned above!
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If I were doing several thousand bales+ a year, yeah, I'd probably go that way. My little JD 335, is a '96 model I bought used, with approx. 3,000 bales through it. The farmer decided it was too small of bales for his operation, so got a larger one. In 17 years, I've put approx., 1,000 bales through it. Still on the original belts, and have only repaired 3.
Seems all of the belts have frayed just beyond the skived part. I lucked out at a consignment auction last Spring, and bought a box work boots come in, half full of new cards of the Clipper lacings, and I'm thinking they are 10"-12" long, for $50. I counted them when I got home, and IIRC, there were 28 of them. At the same sale, bought a nearly new belt cutter & straight edge for $5.00, simply because a guy walked up to a guy that was anting them too, just a minute before it sold, and wasn't paying attention. He was not happy.
I bought that baler, so I could make my hay myself, and not have to depend on finding help. It should last me the rest of my life, if I take care of it. I figure a few more years, and I'll have to replace the belts. I've got everything but the belting to do that job. If new belts, and the baler last as long as these have, it will be someone else's problem down the road.
We did use the Alligator lacings years go on the hammer mill belts. Da always put 2 pins in, so they would wear on each other, not get pulled in kinks between the lacings.
I still have a few things ran by belt around here with smaller pulleys, so I'll repair them if needed with the Clippers.
Seems all of the belts have frayed just beyond the skived part. I lucked out at a consignment auction last Spring, and bought a box work boots come in, half full of new cards of the Clipper lacings, and I'm thinking they are 10"-12" long, for $50. I counted them when I got home, and IIRC, there were 28 of them. At the same sale, bought a nearly new belt cutter & straight edge for $5.00, simply because a guy walked up to a guy that was anting them too, just a minute before it sold, and wasn't paying attention. He was not happy.
I bought that baler, so I could make my hay myself, and not have to depend on finding help. It should last me the rest of my life, if I take care of it. I figure a few more years, and I'll have to replace the belts. I've got everything but the belting to do that job. If new belts, and the baler last as long as these have, it will be someone else's problem down the road.
We did use the Alligator lacings years go on the hammer mill belts. Da always put 2 pins in, so they would wear on each other, not get pulled in kinks between the lacings.
I still have a few things ran by belt around here with smaller pulleys, so I'll repair them if needed with the Clippers.
