Crappy Baler Twine

[Tongy]

I bought 2 rolls of Tytan sisal fiber 16000 green baler twine, for small square baler, from our local farm store ( Feldmans) and was I in for a surprise. It was very thin, about the thickness of the cable that attaches the keyboard to the computer. We started baling and could not get the left knotter to tie a knot, the twine seemed to break at some point during the knotting process. We spent all afternoon on the 4th messing with no success. I had a small amount of the old twine left over from last year and in desperation threaded it up and wow, it worked.
Oh, the baler is a old Oliver 720. By that time a neighbor came over and wrapped up the hay in big rounds. I think it's time to forget about messing with square bales and make my old life easier.
Anybody want a Oliver 720 baler?

 

[SPYDERLK]

16000 is round baler twine. Square balers use 8 -10000 twine. We find the gold vs green to cut off better

 

[RickB]

Ditto on the 16000 being round baler twine. I won't sell 10000 ft twine and some brands of 9000 sisal aren't consistent or strong enough to perform well. 9000 ft twine with 130 lb knot strength is the minumum you should use, and 7200 would be better.

 

[tmac196]

I had a similar problem with an older New Holland 565 baler. I finally had the baler mechanic over who looked over the left knotter and announced that the problem was that my baler twine was way too narrow in diameter "for these old balers". He suggested getting 7200 twine which is somewhat thicker than what I was using and this solved the problem. Don't think you need to unload the baler without trying thicker twine first.

 

[Texasmark]

I used the 9000 and it was an off color orange on my JD 14T and it worked fine.

Mark

 

[art]

Definitely the wrong twine! Many have gone to the plastic not so much from the pests and rodents but more for consistency over the sisal. We often to overcome the tying issues have customers going to the 7200 for small square balers if using the sisal twine.