Great content Mr.Scientist, the hay dog function is ever so important, I spray my hay dog pins w/ a shot of penetrating oil every other time I grease the baler.
i will check my dogs but I wondered about twine tension also. MY 268 makes great bales and ties everytime but I put in new twine for 2nd cut with very light winrows. The bales came out very loose, would almost fall apart. cranking it down only made bales heavier, still to loose. I hope its just the hay and not baler.
Unfortunately that’s the draw back with light soft hay. Second cut is shorter and finer. Increase your baling speed to feed the baler faster, and if they make wedges for the bale chamber of a 268 those will help with tension as well. Faster ground speed will help more than anything. I bale 5 mph in light hay to keep my 311 fed.
On second cut I'll combine 3 rows into one to have a nice fat consistent row that keeps the baler fed and nice tight bakes. Did that with my NH 278 and now with my NH575. I have an LS MT7101cps and I can tailor the ground speed to match the windrow far better than with my old Case 930 which was either too fast or too slow
