Posted by TX656 on June 01, 2008 at 21:21:57 from (71.48.164.162):
In Reply to: speaking of a 656 posted by tn terry t on June 01, 2008 at 04:43:44:
Vermeer 605F, which owner's manual states "is designed for tractors of 60 to 70 horsepower."
First weekend: I had to keep it in 1st gear and throttle wide open and it 'lugged down/dies' on several occassions. I suspected the governor needed a looking at or else I was going to be moving my engine overhaul up on the list.
Second weekend: Didn't have time to inspect/adjust the governor and I had hay cut so I thought I'd just make it work. Here's the surprise...it acted like a DIFFERENT TRACTOR. I could bale in 2nd which for me was ideal for weaving back and forth across the windrows. Also, as a test I baled at about 5/8 - 3/4 throttle. It maintained its RPM's the whole day, and it never lugged or acted like it had a load. And the fuel consumption appeared to be a lot less baling this way. (still have to measure that.)
A friend told me for the best bales to go 540 on the PTO but I can't really tell any difference between the bales from last weekend which were 540 and this weekend which were made using much fewer RPM. I've been pestering the implement board with baler questions and from some reading presume you get a tighter bale at higher RPM. I'm going to post that question on there soon unless maybe some answers pop up here.
The ODD thing is all that I did between weekends was lube the baler chain, add 8 pickup teeth, and spray the outside of the tractor governor with brake cleaner to start getting it cleaned up for removal. I can't guess what, if anything made the difference. Perhaps the rust on the inside of the baler walls was causing a massive amount of friction but I'm more believing as this tractor starts to get exercised again after what I suspect was only occassional use over the last decade things like the governor either get in the groove and start working consistently (or they break! :) )
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