Posted by gotmyfarm! on August 02, 2019 at 14:22:47 from (184.100.91.80):
Just got in on this hot and humid day from using the 14T for the first time. First time ever using any kind of baler. Got all the hay put on the wagon and need to move the horse trailer out of the barn, and the new hay on the wagon in, before it rains. Don't know if I'll be able to back that wagon though. Going to try.
Sooo, the baler actually put grass into itself and compressed it and made very nice, tight, uniform bales. At the same time, it didn't make any bales! Most times, the strand going over the top of the bale tied a nice knot and the other end was just loose and untied. Also, the right one sometimes had a knot left on the bill hook and sometimes there were more than one strand coming from the knotter area, going out over the bale. There were 2 inch cut straight pieces of twine just sitting there below the knotter area on the left. The manual suggests things to check and adjust, so I'll do that next. I adjusted the needles and that's about all I did in the knotter area so far. Was hoping it was already to go, but it's not! I haven't checked or adjusted the tucker fingers or the dogs yet. Maybe it is one of those two. Or twine disk holder spring may be too tight. I just wanted to see what it did for the whole field. I know sometimes the first few aren't so nice. They were all duds as far as tying, but I have really nice flakes of hay. Serious, that hay is the best I've seen. Ecited to adjust the baler and get it tying right, and bale the rest of that pasture. I only did about 15% of it. Not too much harder loading flakes of hay than bales. I learned that I will not be able to double up windrows. Small, single wide rake pass only. I had to get out a few times and back up the plunger and take out some grass today because it loaded too much for it to handle and couldn't compress enough for arm to make the cycle.
So what am I going to do with a whole wagon load of hay flakes? I don't know either! If it was winter they'd get used up fast, but not now. After the rains, I could put some back out to test the baler again after it's adjusted, before I cut more grass and take a chance.
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