Posted by JD Seller on March 26, 2018 at 20:15:07 from (208.126.189.95):
In Reply to: Re: Vermeer 605c posted by Bkpigs on March 26, 2018 at 17:15:48:
Your bailer has the later belt design. That worked better. Now you just need to do some simple stuff to make it work well.
The first thing would be to loosen the belt tension, lift the gate, an check all the rollers and bearings. A bad bearing or bent roller can cause your belts to do crazy things.
Second is to pull the belts out and make sure they are the correct length and all match. On Vermeer balers of the vintage your talking about, they used springs for the tension. So you want the belts to be the correct length so the belts are the proper tension. If the belts have stretched too long than the spring tension is too loose when your starting a bale. If one belt is a lot shorter then the others then it will have more stress on it than the other belts. This leads to broken laces and lacings. You said you have a manual coming. It will give you a maximum and minimum length for the belts.
Check the pickup over for bad/bent teeth and all the bearing in the pickup.
Now your ready for the field. Like I posted below the hay much be fit to bale too tough/damp and it will do everything but bale. Also how you rake the windrow will effect the bale shape and density. You want nice wide windrows that are even across them. An example is you may double windrow by just raking one on top of the neighboring one. The does not work well as the side that was next to the rake will have more hay in it. The other side is feathered out. So you will fight to make even bales. The best windrow is two smaller windrows laid side by side. Kind of like a figure "8". This will help you get good firm edges/sides on your bales. You will have to weave back and forth to fill the baler evenly. Your baler does not have any monitor so you will just have to "learn" how to make good even bales.
Your Vermeer baler is a much better baler than the JD ones of its age. That would have been a 500 or 510 baler. They where terrible to use. Your baler will be better than those where. You still will have to learn how the condition of the hay effects your baler. You hay and its condition will be a little different than what I might bale. So on your baler you would run it a little differently.
P.S. On your baler you will need to shut the PTO off when you dump the bale. On newer balers you do not but on yours you will.
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