Magnetic mounting hardware for round baler control box?

[Tx Jim]

Mine has a wheel that rides on the roll and uses a Hall effect sensor just like the crankshaft sending unit you have in your car or truck that 'counts the number of times the magnet passes in front of it. Pretty simple and very reliable too. Automakers have used them for decades to control timing and to tell the ECM the motor is rotating.

Certainly not fancy and very reliable too.

Time will tell how reliable your NEW balers net counter is!!!! Sensors used in auto industry & ""dusty farming conditions'' don't always have the same excellent results. Report back after several thousand bales have been wrapped!

 

[Hay Dude]

Time will tell how reliable your NEW balers net counter is!!!! Report back after several thousand bales have been wrapped!

Yep, more things to break. Not in a farmer’s best interest that’s for sure.
Jim I will pray for some rain for you. Wish I could send you some of mine. too much up here in the mid atlantic

 

[Tx Jim]

Thanks Hay Dude. Ironically a pop-up rain cloud dumped 1.9'' in a town 6 miles Northwest of me last evening & I received 0.02'' of precipitation. Oh well city dwellers need green grass in their yards for aesthetics(EGOs)

 

[5030]

All that stuff eventually fails but the hall effect sensor is out in the open and easily replaceable. Probably costs a small fortune just like all replacement parts cost today. Why I put an additional 2 year warranty on it. One farm call equals the warranty cost. Do that on the vehicles as well. Been out once already with the Kubota rep.

Typical of Kubota and all the rest and that is, they won't tell you what the access pin code is to access the electronics which irks me to no end. You pay for a machine but you cannot access the electronics. I'll be glad when the 'Right to Repair litigation is concluded and manufacturers will have to allow access. JD is very notorious for that.

Guy down the road with his seed operation runs all late model Deere equipment and he cannot access anything. If any of them generates a trouble code, the Greenstar GPS unit transmits the code to the local dealer and then they come out and of course he gets to pay for a farm call. it's all a big game. He cannot even use aftermarket filters because the JD filters have a flow sensor inside that monitors restriction. Aftermarket filters don't and generate a trouble code. Pretty wacky stuff. The price you pay for being green.....

Not really owning a machine but rather a long term lease...lol

 

[5030]

Thanks Hay Dude. Ironically a pop-up rain cloud dumped 1.9'' in a town 6 miles Northwest of me last evening & I received 0.02'' of precipitation. Oh well city dwellers need green grass in their yards for aesthetics(EGOs)

Skeeters too...

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I tried the glass mount suction cup that came with my Vermeer Accu-Bale monitor but it sucked in my opinion, constantly falling off and a monitor is to expensive to keep hitting the floor of the tractor, so I fabricated a bracket in about 20 minutes out of some scrap aluminum that I had laying around, not real pretty but 100% effective as my monitor stays right where I want it.

 

[5030]

I tried the glass mount suction cup that came with my Vermeer Accu-Bale monitor but it sucked in my opinion, constantly falling off and a monitor is to expensive to keep hitting the floor of the tractor, so I fabricated a bracket in about 20 minutes out of some scrap aluminum that I had laying around, not real pretty but 100% effective as my monitor stays right where I want it.View attachment 752903

My new Kubota control unit came with a RAM mount and I actually like it because it angles easily and you can remove the box in about 2 seconds.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

My new Kubota control unit came with a RAM mount and I actually like it because it angles easily and you can remove the box in about 2 seconds.

I had a Ram Mount for a Garmin dog tracking system and it was really good, they do make good stuff, but some of it is a little pricey.

 

[5030]

I had a Ram Mount for a Garmin dog tracking system and it was really good, they do make good stuff, but some of it is a little pricey.

How the Garmin mounts in the buggy as well. They sell many accessories for their mounts too.

The one supplied with the Kubota baler is a quick release model, takes all of 5 seconds to dismount. Very handy and very rigid when locked up.

 

[bazman82]

Well after last night, I may ditch the control box and hook a toggle switch to the twine arm. The main chain on my new (to me) baler broke and jammed up while at full rpm and the tractor just came to a dead stop and shut off. I got the chain fixed but now the control box doesn't work. The fuse blew so I swapped that out and the box will turn on and then shut right off after beeping at me. As I am typing this, I realize there is one thing I could have tried but didn't. I'll need to try the control box without the baler hooked up and see how it works and if still just get the complete mess I was getting.

Sooo, I go to my back up baler and get 13 bales in and (my fault for rushing) broke a chain on that one.....

Luckily, it was overcast and there was no dew coming on and I already was doing square bales earlier so now I have 3 wagons of unexpected square bales to stack in the barn. Finished baling at about 11:30pm.

 

[5030]

Well after last night, I may ditch the control box and hook a toggle switch to the twine arm

Exactly how my old, long gone NH 400 series twine round baler operated with the exception of a 'full bale alarm' based on a microswitch mounted to the bale tension arm that when closed, alerted me in the cab with an alarm (time to initiate the twine arm via a toggle switch which is really old school and painfully slow too.

If I could fined a not to whipped out (in need of major repair), NH 458, I'd buy one as a backup bailer. Stone simple balers, only issue is the pickups aren't overly wide.

 

[5030]

The main chain on my new (to me) baler broke and jammed up while at full rpm and the tractor just came to a dead stop and shut off.

Bad deal. I have pressure oiling on my new one, all the chains are interval oiled via a central oiler. Even so, I kept my old NH chains lubricated with motorcycle chain lube applied when the chains were warm immediately after bailing. Motorcycle chain lube (I use the PBlaster version) don't drip and stays put. You can tell when a chain is dry versus a lubed one, by the sound it makes. A lubricate chain is much quieter than a dry one plus a dry chain tends to eat up drive sprockets as well.

 

[bazman82]

Bad deal. I have pressure oiling on my new one, all the chains are interval oiled via a central oiler. Even so, I kept my old NH chains lubricated with motorcycle chain lube applied when the chains were warm immediately after bailing. Motorcycle chain lube (I use the PBlaster version) don't drip and stays put. You can tell when a chain is dry versus a lubed one, by the sound it makes. A lubricate chain is much quieter than a dry one plus a dry chain tends to eat up drive sprockets as well.

The chain was oiled. We had just replaced it after the last field I did because the old chain was really worn out and kept popping off the sprocket. The 2 (80size) chains we had were slightly different and I believe the 1 master link we used didn't fully snap together although it seemed like it was. That was where it broke and thats the only reason I can think of.

I have been using the control box to manually extend the twine arm and retract the whole time. I didn't like how the bales came out with the auto wrap. So it won't change anything on my end other than getting rid of the beeps when the bale gets to 4ft. I send the arm at 4.5ft or just before and doesn't seem to take very long and its what I'm used too.

 

[Tx Jim]

The main chain on my new (to me) baler broke and jammed up while at full rpm and the tractor just came to a dead stop and shut off.

Sounds as if applicable the slip clutch on your baler that broke the chain needs attention to free stuck plates.