You are a very good, interesting and easy to listen to presenter. Be well, with Blessings.... Silvano Traverso ( Maremma Man ) Gippsland farmer Via Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dude you have no idea when it comes to runaway bales. I look at the country you farm and I am so jealous. I am in Kentucky hill country. (The only ground I could afford) I litterly have to place every bale. Not complaining though spent 30 years in a factory to farm debt free.👍👍😁
I'm digging the new baler. Happy for you guys that it's working out. Also got a chuckle out of you and Brad busting your night raking / baling / net wrap cherries! Should have titled the video "Like A Virgin" but it would have come back as copywrite violation. Thanks for all the great videos lately!
👍👌🇨🇦❤, Jacob, when your bale is complete and wrapped, as you open the rear door, can you back up about 6 feet, eject the baler and then move forward that will allow the pick up to start in fresh and not jam up up or miss any hay
I run the same old-timer NH Rolabar rake. After 3 or 4 greasy-hands field failures the same as this video shows, usually on beastly hot days, I took out the loose-fit clevis pin and drove in a factory-sized steel pin that ain't coming out. End of story. But my fields are not very far apart. The chain baler is great, even older than my NH 634.
Meh that driveline angle that looks SO bad when the rake is cranked up on that U-joint down by the tire, it doesn't hurt anything... so long as you're not pulling the rake behind a pickup at 45 mph (which you shouldn't do anyway because the wheels and bearings and stuff ain't made for that kind of speed!) which is why they make them removable, but if you're just pulling it down the road at tractor speed, I've never had a U-joint go bad on that yoke because of it... and I've pulled rakes 8-10 miles between jobs before many times. Later! OL J R : )
I dropped an IH806 with a belly sickle mower onto its frame back in the day mowing gov't program ground while in a field that had earlier been reclaimed from a wooded area. The stumps had been bulldozed out but the holes had not been filled in.
You need to bolt together a couple of semi mud flaps and run it under the tractor and it will prevent the hay dragging on you're hitch. Great video though glad you are getting great use out of the new baler
Great to see your baler working. I’d said the lumps of hay going in at once would help the shear bolts I think it’s catching on your drawbar pin. I wrap a plastic feed bag/sack around the draw bar and pin which helps the the crop flow better under the tractor. Another idea is maybe a crop press on the front of your tractor it will press the row down before it goes under the tractor and will help to put more into your bale to.
Get an old piece of round baler belt about a foot or two long, cut 45 degree "ears" off it on the front edge, and bolt it to the underside of the drawbar through the hammerstrap holes in the drawbar, using fender washers... the belt will flop up against the pin and allow hay to slide under the belt past the pin so it quits bunching under the pin. I've had that happen before and it really works. Had it get pulled into the PTO as well because of it and had to spend a few minutes with a knife cutting all the hay off the shaft. Belt under the drawbar stops all that. OL J R :)
At 13:35, your RH rake drive wheel wasn't driving, because the rake stopped in the RH turn. Only the LH wheel was driving the rake basket, and since that tire stopped in the sharp turn, so did the rake basket. Probably a bad dog spring or dog pin busted or fell out. Later! OL J R :)
I wound up an put case hardened sheer pins in mine had the exact same problem if I remember correctly I drilled a second hole they normally don’t have two on the pickup drive . Does that one have air bags for the density? Never saw one with net before that’s awesome
When replacing those shear bolts, make sure you get them very tight and also double nut them or use lock nuts because they will work loose. Those are great balers. Its making nice bales
My farm is in a valley by a major mountain, we had a whole bale trailer roll down the hill and across the street into a bean field one summer, and more than one roll away through a couple fields haha
Something u might want to try is roll backwards a bit when wrapping the bale so you don’t have to worry about moving forward and missing hay after spitting the bale out
When you stop to dump a round bale back up and if your on a hill back up and back the roller parallel to the hill and away from your windrows that way when you dump a roll it won’t roll any
Check the pickup bearings the pickup should have its own slip clutch thing its not like a standard slip clutch but the pickups in new holland balers have enclosed bearings and when they go out the pickup likes to slip at random
Yep that's been a problem with Vermeers forever... they don't like to feed or start bales if conditions aren't "perfect". I've done jobs for neighbors with my 40 year old Ford (Gehl) because the one guy called me after he was trying to bale dry ryegrass hay (ryegrass is VERY slick when over-dry) and it got so bad he was having to try 10-15 times before he could make a bale because it COULDN'T START A BALE! Just wad up and plug and he'd have to spit it out the back spread the lump and try again... I pulled in and did the whole job in about 2 hours, no problems! Old Vermeers like his had a "starter roll" with "starter flaps" (some sort of rubber flaps) that were probably worn and too floppy or not stiff enough. Newer Vermeers rely on hard rubber pickup tines to force feed hay in hard enough to get the bale started. When the tines inevitably get softer and the rubber loosens up or stretches, it won't start a bale in tough conditions. Read a LOT of guys on the Hay Talk forum griping about the cost of putting new tines in every other year just so the baler would start a bale. I like how stout the Vermeers are built, but I'm not a Vermeer fan because I've heard and seen too many stories of this sort and the next time I see "perfect conditions" in a hay field will probably the first LOL:) Ain't got time for persnickety balers! OL J R :)
Dad's Gehl has a belt drive on the pickup, so if it overloads the belt slips. We haven't broke many shearbolts on that baler at all. See your baler is pretty hungry and swallows big windrows with ease. Have you ever plugged the pickup on that baler(or your older round baler for that matter)
I have plugged it, but the wind guard comes off with a clip so all I have to do is put it off and slowly turn the pto on to suck it in. Never plugged the old one.
We have very steep land where I bale. I forgot and opened the tailgate climbing a hill and last time i saw that bale it was screaming down and disappeared into the wood line. I never saw it again
The severe angle of the shaft when the basket is lifted will wear the universals out. Was lazy on second cut and didn't remove the shaft between fields, had a universal come apart.
@@boehmfarm4276 I've run them 8-10 miles down the road, so long as you running at tractor speeds not pickup speeds it's fine... I've NEVER hat that lower U-joint go out on a rake in 40 years of baling hay... It's not a problem. OL J R :)
When you hook up the bailer use a pin without a handle on it put it in from the bottom use whatever you have to make it Hang down as least as possible then put the clip in
Yeah and if something breaks the hair pin or clip you lose your baler down the hill. Would never put a pin in from the bottom. Just get the correct length pin.
@@leeroyexcavator9149 Exactly, or better yet just get a piece of old baler belting about a foot or two long, cut the corners off the front end of it at 45 degrees, and bolt it to the underside of the drawbar with a couple bolts and fender washers through the hammerstrap holes in the drawbar... works great and the belt flops up against the pin and the hay slides seamlessly under it. Problem solved! OL J R :)
Just think how bad it would be with bale ramps...without ramps its best to back of the windrow a few feet to drop bale...with ramps you dont need to bale rolls away far enough
@@boehmfarm4276 November in Texas... takes a lot longer to get dry though! Particularly if it's really juicy grass hay (like in a corn field after harvest) or really thick hay (like the fall bluestem I bale). Later! OL J R :)
