burnetma
Gold Member
= FRUSTRATION
Well, the inevitable and curse of all who attempt to make hay just bit me this week. My old MF 10 baler just would not give me a break. First 4 bales came hard, as usual. Then she baled 108 of the next 110 bales like a champ (right knotter didn't clean off two times). Then the fun began. It was like she jumped time. The plunger kept hitting the needle guard and breaking shear pins. I checked the timing and it appeared to be the same as last year and at the beginning of the day, but obviously there is a problem. Long story short, the rain moved in last night, tonight and scheduled to rain tomorrow. It has rained on ~ 300 bales of freshly fertilized and over-seeded timothy/broome grass hay that was raked and ready to bale. Not alot of hay to most people, but 1/3 of my annual usage. I do my own hay simply to control quality, keep the land active and reduce the cost of keeping our horses.
Questions:
Any suggestions on the baler? (Shooting it is an option, but not practical at this point. Besides it is not mine.)
Chains are tight. Timing is close. Linkage that operates the needle guard is intact and adjustment appears correct.
Well, the inevitable and curse of all who attempt to make hay just bit me this week. My old MF 10 baler just would not give me a break. First 4 bales came hard, as usual. Then she baled 108 of the next 110 bales like a champ (right knotter didn't clean off two times). Then the fun began. It was like she jumped time. The plunger kept hitting the needle guard and breaking shear pins. I checked the timing and it appeared to be the same as last year and at the beginning of the day, but obviously there is a problem. Long story short, the rain moved in last night, tonight and scheduled to rain tomorrow. It has rained on ~ 300 bales of freshly fertilized and over-seeded timothy/broome grass hay that was raked and ready to bale. Not alot of hay to most people, but 1/3 of my annual usage. I do my own hay simply to control quality, keep the land active and reduce the cost of keeping our horses.
Questions:
Any suggestions on the baler? (Shooting it is an option, but not practical at this point. Besides it is not mine.)
Chains are tight. Timing is close. Linkage that operates the needle guard is intact and adjustment appears correct.
