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 Wide (466/466S) 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.

IMPORTANT: Lock out push bar if baler is in the lowered position and equipped with 11L-14 tires. Lowered position reduces ground clearance and may reduce push bar effectiveness.

Operating the push bar with the baler in the lowered position is acceptable if equipped with 31 x 13.5-15 tires.

Put wheel spindles in normal position for all other baling conditions.

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 17] in this section.)

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, even with wide pickup.
2. Center baler over windrow while starting, to avoid getting crop under the crop dividers.

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