That stuff will try to push the belts around even if the windrow is 5 feet wide. By far the worst crop to deal with is bean straw. A number of times baling bean straw behind a 6088 combine that drops a 30" windrow of pretty chewed up crop. Couple times in cornstalks in narrow windrows with a bit of snow in them. Once baling real fine grass in a small windrow in a road ditch. I've flipped belts a few times in my round baling career. That baler is still in the field with the same belts as day one.
With chain balers you just drove regardless of how the hay was entering the bale chamber. NH came with several supposed fixes for the belts flipping, but they missed the most important fix and that was to educate the dealers on how to operate a belt baler. While others in the field were having problems, I kept on going. And would'nt you know it, the procedure worked. Thinking about how the belts can get so loose so fast I thought I would try doing a fast weave on start up to get hay under all the belts as fast as possible. At this point I had heard from other NH dealers who were having the same issue. After the show NH put on a field day open for the public to operate the equipment. It so happened that there was a hay day put on by Purdue in our area and we supplied one of the balers for the show. I thought we were out of the round baler business at that point and hoped to never see another belt baler again. We could not get the belts to stay put and I was too inexperienced to know what to do. Everything worded perfectly for two bales and then all hell broke out with the belts. Fast forward a couple of days, on a Sunday, I took the baler out to another customer who had only operated NH chain balers. We had an experienced operator who had a belt baler in the past operate the 660. When we received our first 660, the first belt baler from NH for our area, we took it out for a demonstration. I found out about belt flipping the hard way just like Jim did. Then again you need to adjust your pto speed with in those conditions.Ĭlick to expand.It is very rare for a 4ft wide baler to flip belts since it is easier to have hay under all the belts during core formation. You have to be a very bad operator to flip a belt once the core is formed unless in dry hay the bale just falls apart. Let a belt get loose and the belt will travel. It all comes down to getting and keeping hay under all the belts when starting a bale. Or extremely dry and short hay in the same type of field. I cringe when starting a new baler in those conditions with a new operator. You should try baling wet hay with a 5 ft wide baler on the side of a hill. You either learned to bale properly or you would have a very bad day. Jim, you started round baling when that was not the case. The problem with modern balers is they work too good which causes operators to become lax in their baling procedure. It is very rare for a 4ft wide baler to twist a belt, not because they are a better baler, but it is easier to keep hay under all belts when starting a bale. Twisting belts can almost always be prevented.
Should you have a question about machine-tool drives of any kind, you are welcome to contact by phone for advice.Judging by the little wear on this one baler, it would not surprise me that the Mato lacings would make 20000 and then some. Alternatively, a length of nylon or red-fibre rod can be used.Īn instruction sheet, reproduced below, is supplied with each clip.Ĭlips can be ordered online here, or by phoning: 01298-871633 six days 09:00 to 23:00ĭetails of the flat, round, link, Poly-V, miniature and standard V-belts we supply can be found here and many of them ordered online here for immediate delivery. 35 for belts 9/32" to 5/16" (7 to 8 mm)Ī length of clip is hammered in at each end of the belt and joined with two sections of the special oval pin supplied - these being designed to work back-to-back. "Alligator clips" are made in various sizes-but four cover most belts in common use (each strip is 11-inch (280 mm) long). Machine Tool Manuals Machine Tool Catalogues E-Mail Machine Tool Archive Machine Tools For Sale & Wanted