Baling Short, Dry, Slick Crops

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Do not attempt to feed crop or twine into baler or unplug feed area while the 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. Check pickup belt tension and condition. (See Adjusting Pickup Drive Belt Idler in Service—Baler section.)

2. Check for missing or broken pickup teeth.

3. Raise pickup as high as practical.

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

5. 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 the compressor rack under normal conditions. (See Removing Or Installing Compressor Rack Assembly in this section.)

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

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

8. Adjust pickup float springs to provide more force (float). (See Adjusting Pickup Float Springs in Service—Baler section.)

9. When baling dry straw, it may be necessary to place twine across full width of the bale to prevent straw from coming out of feed opening while tying. (See Operating with BaleTrak™ Pro System section.)

If bales fail to start rotating due to one or both sides of the windrow extending outside width of the 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.