MF-124 baler-shear knife servicing

flusher · Jun 14, 2009

hudsonfarm said:
if you tightened those 3 bolts like yo normally would a 3/8ths bolt if you look at the design of the clutch you will notice those bolts tightened to what you feel is enough will actually spread the clutch apart. you can tighten the springs for the clutch until they shear and the clutch will not engage fully. When the left knotter is breaking about every other bale give me a shout I am fortunate enough to live about 50 miles from the massey mechanic who was sent around to trouble shoot the problems on the 24-28 series.

I've been eyeballing the slip clutch on the baler pto shaft. I posted the drawing and parts list for this clutch earlier in this thread.

Looks to me like the clutch facings are pretty worn. I expected to see facings at least 1/8" thick (the facing on my rotary mower slip clutch is about 1/4" thick). Makes me wonder if the baler slip clutch can be adjusted correctly if the facings are so thin. I'll disassemble the slip clutch later this week and find out what's what.

BuckeyeFarmer1994 · Sep 4, 2009

Flusher,

Do you by any chance have a full scanned copy of the operators manual for the MF 124? I recently bought on eof these machines and would like to acquire a manual for it. Thanks!

flusher · Sep 4, 2009

BuckeyeFarmer1994 said:
Flusher,

Do you by any chance have a full scanned copy of the operators manual for the MF 124? I recently bought on eof these machines and would like to acquire a manual for it. Thanks!

I have a paper copy. Google "Massey Ferguson 124 baler manuals".

hillsboroughfarm · May 26, 2011

i just read one of your threads about the knotter on a mf124 missing about every other bale on the left string. i am having this very problem with my MF124. can you help me?

Barry Bowen · May 30, 2011

Massey knives and JD knives are completely different.

You should be able to turn your baler through by HAND with the fly wheel. Do this and see where you plunger is binding and make the correct adjustments. It is possible that the baler is so far out line that it may never be fixable. I have seen this several times before.

peifarmer · Jul 14, 2015

hi i have a 124 massey baley where my pto shaft attaches to the slip clutch it just spins. I removed the shield and the bolt going in the ther pto shaft goes in, i expected to see a set key but nothing i don't completely understand how this works ?

Ok upon further research ( i realized there was a first page to this forum) i see it is this sprag clutch thing that is my problem. the manual says it has to be dissembled and lubed annually i dont know if that will fix my problem but i cant figure out how to do it either .