Price Check Price for a 2006 New Holland 570 baler with 72 kicker

[scouter16]

Hello all, here is the scoop; so we purchased a NH 570 back in 2006 new from the dealer, and the pickup head never drove smooth, it always sounded like the tines where scraping on some thing, and we looked it seem to be only 1 tine hitting one band, so we thought nothing of it. The head always looked a little cockeyed, but we thought it might have been done like that on purpose for feed reason. The baler worked better, and much faster than our old 311 so it was a major improvement. My father was always like it works, and it works a lot better than the old one. We used the thing up until last week when the head started showing major resistance, at first we thought it was our tractor always being boarder line with the NH spec, but as we took a closer look the bands on the bottom were almost non existent. Taking an even closer look it looks like the support tube on the pickup head, the part that the head rotates on looks like it was welded wrong from the factory. When up the arm on the inside is almost perpendicular to the ground about 3 oclock, and the arm on the out side is roughly about 4oclock. Taking a tape measure to it the head sits .5 inch shorter on the outside than inside. Its at the dealership now, as its not really usable anymore, and a factory tech is suppose to come look at it, we are considering selling it. What would be a good price as is, and a good price if fixed? also anyone ever experience this? our dealer was clueless.

Thanks a bunch everyone.

 

[RickB]

Sounds like the pickup gauge wheel dropped in a hole and twisted the pickup frame. I replaced a pickup frame on a 570 about 10 years ago, it is a straightforward job that takes a bunch of time. If the paint on the main tube shows any kind of checking, cracking, or flaking, the damage happened after the baler left the factory. If the paint is pristine, it might have been welded up wrong. Too many variables to give numbers based on the info given. Check Tractorhouse, Fastline , etc for comparative asking prices on dozens of 570's.

 

[scouter16]

Ya the paint on the pickup tube was still pristine, and the weld mark that they use on the tube to straighten it out after the weld process was still straight. Its mind boggling, we have taken the head off and took it all apart, and a mechanical engineer looked at it and he thought it was put together wrong. It looked cockeyed the day we received it, but going from a 311 to a new 570 no one at the farm complained because it worked.