Thanks for the reply. We are pretty close on how we go about baling.
We do make a perimeter of windrows around the field and then long straight runs inside of that. Some of our fields don’t lend themselves very well to that however, but we do the best we can.
One of these days we will have some nice steel racks on our kickers, for now, wood racks are cheap to build so that’s what we have - for now...
The hydraulic tilt, on my JD 5055d, the tilt is very controlled and smooth. On the MF 1105, it can be jerky. I think that is a flow control issue and I can adjust it. It’s on my round-2-it list...
Twine... we use to use 7200 sisal, but found it to be inconsistent and prone to breakage. We have since move to 9600/210 twine plastic twine and have zero broken bales - except occasionally at twine ball change over due to my lame knots!
Sometimes the way we divide our fields to bale, we will run over a windrow. It’s either that or waste a pile of time traveling the headlands.
We have a moisture meter in our baler for reference as we bale. It is an Agtronics BH2 meter dressed up in JD colors. We also have a hay preservative applicator with buffered propionic acid we use as a last resort, if necessary.
As Roger mentioned, you can put angles on the bottom sides of the bale chamber where the bale exists that hold up the bale so the pan can get back under the bale without interference. You can see that in my video. BTW, our kicker is a #42 and we’d have electric distance control, but hydraulic tilt. You can get both electric distance and tilt. Deere has a joy stick that goes in the cab that controls both at the same time, so you would not have to take your hand off the controls like you mentioned.
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