why is this scrap on nearly every bale knot?

[circled]

Got these scraps on nearly every bale knot today. First time baling, just curious if they are preventable? Knots seemed unharmed and bales were fine. New Holland 276 baler and Tytan 9000 sisal. Thank you all for any explanation or suggestions or information! (the silver is tape to hold it together)

 

[bmaverick]

WOW, if I got a quarter for every knot residue in my baler, I would quit my day job too!

 

[LHF2019]

Birds love them for their nests. Don't want them. Don't bale

 

[Hay Dude]

I have a baler that has SIX strings, so I make a LOT of those.

 

[5030]

Sharpen or replace the cutter knives.

 

[Hay Dude]

That little 2-4" piece is the loop that is cut off every time a bale is tied off.
New Holland and John Deere are the ones that do it because they use the Deering style knotter. The McCormick knotter doesn’t leave any waste bits.

 

[zzvyb6]

Twine disks rolling too far so trapped under knotter frame. Or, wiperarm wiper blade not tight against entire billhook face. Bend the wiper arm until it SLIGHTLY clashes.

 

[5030]

Candidly, I wasn't aware that anyone used Sisal today. Always ran poly when I had my long gone NH 565. Just the thought of small squares makes me perspire....

 

[Hay Dude]

Twine disks rolling too far so trapped under knotter frame. Or, wiperarm wiper blade not tight against entire billhook face. Bend the wiper arm until it SLIGHTLY clashes.

When the wiper arm is too tight against the billhook face, bad things also can happen.

 

[circled]

Thanks everyone. So they are normal!, but I will check out the cutter blades and wiper arms. i just wanted to make sure it wasn't something I did or did not set up correctly on the baler. I had to re-time it before using it for the first time! It was kind of like a Rube-Goldberg machine to me! Thanks again!

 

[bmaverick]

I have a baler that has SIX strings, so I make a LOT of those.

Brian Adams has a six string too, but it makes his fingers bleed since the summer of '69.

 

[Hay Dude]

Very good!
And a great song!

 

[workinonit]

LOL

 

[Willman]

Candidly, I wasn't aware that anyone used Sisal today. Always ran poly when I had my long gone NH 565. Just the thought of small squares makes me perspire....

Ohhh…… boy do I remember the 95 degree days on our farm , stacking bales to the roof in the haymows of our bank barns… was a great way to lose weight..
Kids and adults today have no idea what real work is.

 

[stuckmotor]

That little 2-4" piece is the loop that is cut off every time a bale is tied off.
New Holland and John Deere are the ones that do it because they use the Deering style knotter. The McCormick knotter doesn’t leave any waste bits.

Thanks for that information. My New Holland made those cutoffs and I never knew why. It seldom missed a bale and I left well enough alone.

 

[5030]

My ongoing philosophy is... The less amount of physical work I have to do concerning hay, the better off I am, which is why I round bale in net. My customer prefers it that way and so do I. I got it down to where the tractors and implements do 99% of the work from cutting to loading the bales and at 76 years old and the cancer, that is peachy with me. I can 'hear' the alfalfa growing presently....