Baling Short, Dry, Slick Crops

causym CAUTION: DON'T TAKE CHANCES! To avoid injury or death by being pulled into the machine:

Do not attempt to feed crop or twine into baler or unplug feed area while baler is running. The baler feeds material faster than you can release it.

Disengage PTO and shut off engine.

To reduce plugging try one or more of the following techniques:

1. Regular Pickup; Check pickup belt tension and condition. (See ADJUSTING PICKUP BELT IDLER in Service-Baler section.)

MEGATOOTH ™ or MegaWide Pickup; Check pickup slip clutch. (See CHECKING PICKUP SLIP CLUTCH TORQUE in Service-Baler section.)

2. Check for missing or broken pickup teeth.

3. Raise pickup as high as practical.

4. Reduce engine speed to 1500 rpm or below (reduces chaffing) and shift transmission to higher gear to maintain ground speed.

5. Reduce bale density as necessary. (See ADJUSTING BALE DENSITY in this section.)

6. Remove individual compressor rods, leaving one center rod and one rod on each end of the cross tube. If material still accumulates, remove compressor rack assembly. Always replace compressor rack under normal conditions. (See REMOVING or INSTALLING COMPRESSOR RACK ASSEMBLY in this section.)

7. Make larger windrows (rake together as necessary), but keep windrows narrower than bale chamber width.

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8. Disengage PTO anytime crop is not being fed into baler, such as turns and field borders.

9. In extremely short, dry conditions, it may be necessary to lower the baler. (Refer to WHEEL SPINDLE POSITIONS in Preparing the Baler section.)

10. Adjust pickup float springs to provide more force (float). (See ADJUSTING PICKUP FLOAT SPRINGS in Service-Baler section.)

11. When baling dry straw, it may be necessary to place twine across full width of bale or use net wrap (if equipped) to prevent straw from coming out of feed opening while tying. (See USING DRY STRAW TWINE WRAP PROGRAM [ADVANCED OPERATION INFORMATION] [CHANNEL 002] in this section.)

NOTE: Recommended Wraps

Different crops require a different number of wraps for effective baling.

Minimum recommendations are:

  • 2 Wraps for Hay

  • 3 Wraps for Straw, Wheat Hay and Cereal Grains

  • 4 Wraps for Corn Stalks, Sudex, Hay Grazer and Milo Stalks

NOTE: If baler is equiped with optional slip clutch alert, net and twine wrapping is automatically adjusted as rpm is changed. Thus, no change is needed on the monitor.

12. If machine RPM is less than rated PTO speed, use the following chart as a guideline for desired wraps.

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NET WRAP CHART
Engine RPM Desired No. Of Wraps Approximate Monitor Setting Needed
Rated PTO 2 2
  3 3
1800 RPM 2 2.4
  3 3.6
1500 RPM 2 2.9
  3 4.3
1300 RPM 2 3.3
  3 5.0

 

If bales fail to start rotating due to one or both sides of the windrow extending outside width of bale chamber, try the following suggestions:

1. Make windrows narrower than bale chamber width.
2. Center baler over windrow while starting, to avoid getting crop under the crop dividers.

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