I grew up with one of these many moons ago. We had a thrower attached. It might feel like you are being hard on it, but these models liked being "full", meaning you should pick up ground speed to get more hay in there so it makes even slices. It needs to move enough into the bale chamber to make an even slice, or you can end up with "banana bales" of various types. If the ground speed needed to fill up the fork area is more then the pick up can keep up with, then you should merge two windrows together. Fill it up until you don;t see the forks, but can still mostly at least see the hay moving as it gets shoved into the chamber. Trust me, you won;t break it unless something was already worn out. We ran our hayliner 68 on the back of a Case 1030 a couple years. If anything was going to break it, that monster would have. New Holland changed the design for the next series, for sure the 268 but maybe the 168? Anyway, those were slightly faster running machines and worked with the light windrows better then the old ones. We had one of those too, we used the 68 for First crop or maybe second, and the 268 for third crop when the rows were light because the pickup could handle higher ground speed and the baler liked the light rows just fine.
How fast did you go pulling it home. I bought a NH Super 69....pretty much the same story. Makes around 500 bales a year here in WV. I run it at only 1900rpm with my 39hp Kubota
We have hired hands that do that. Faster to bale on the ground and pick up when rains coming and you have help. Purchased a thrower and looking to upgrade to that and bale wagons.
@@autenriethfamilyfarm7285 That's BS. Myself and 2 freinds once baled over 600 bales in an hour. We had them all stacked on hay racks and ready to haul to the hay shed. 15 acers of hay with
