OT - Anyone's Square Bales Look This Good?

Bill VA · May 29, 2015

No banana bales on this video! Not sure the 'ol NH68 will make bales as nice as this.....

http://youtu.be/sBEUyNY7DwQ

rankrank1 · May 29, 2015

My New Holland 65 makes a pretty nice bale for being 55 years old (1960 model year).

The biggest things that helped it for me was freeing up the hay dogs and refurbing the bale wedges which had rusted away.

Once of my customers commented last year about how I must have a really nice baler cause it made the prettiest bales compared to any had had bought from anyone else over the years.

Made me feel pretty good considering I have scabbed welded metal into the bottom of the rusted out bale chamber, rebuilt the above mentioned wedges, which were rusted away again with scab weld. All done with scab welds and minimal cost.

I need to get some pics this year....

rankrank1 · May 29, 2015

Here is a pic of some of the bales out of the Nh 65 from several years back. These were taken before I fixed all the balers issues. Not bad bales at all considering all the problems it actually had at the time. The bales are even prettier now after my fixs and refurbs

Don-Wi · May 29, 2015

I stacked on the wagon behind my brothers 65 and it throws me off that the bales are 2"shorter. You get used to passing the bales at a certain height, and then that baler the the whole muscle memory out of whack. Ended up going another layer high just to go the same height on the wagon.

Donovan from Wisconsin

oldtanker · May 29, 2015

(quoted from post at 18:38:19 05/29/15) No banana bales on this video! Not sure the 'ol NH68 will make bales as nice as this.....

http://youtu.be/sBEUyNY7DwQ

My 68 makes banana bales too. I've got it tore down right now. I think it's the condition of the knives.

Rick

GreenEnvy · May 30, 2015

Ours look that good. But then again our baler isn't a NH either.

Eric Gayre · May 30, 2015

my nh69 did the same thing. I fixed it by adjusting the feeder forks. You adjust the opposite one that you think will fix the problem. You
have to play with it for a while but you will fix it if you keep adjusting.

cole in mo. · May 30, 2015

The proper length feeder fingers, and adjusted to the right place, sharp plunger knife, and properly adjusted knife clearance, and the bales will look like they should.

Cory Schmidt · May 30, 2015

Ours are tight and straight, only a slight taper towards one string (one side pulls tighter, or something). That don't bother us in fact we like it, it helps us stack them tighter in the barn.

For a while we had problems with getting constant bale lengths. Had everything from 10inches to 6 feet, and everything on either side. That was till we found the high spot on the knotter(for resetting trip) was worn to much. Drilled a hole and set a screw into it. Works great now.

Old Scovy · May 30, 2015

Bales look nice and the hay looks nicer. I didn't know any one had a 65NH any more. I hauled a lot of them to Southern Pines NC a few years ago the guy sold them to guys that bale Pine Straw, Ever hear of such a thing ?? I never did but at the time he would buy all the 65 NH's I could haul to him. Something about the smaller bale they make helps keep the pine straw together. LOL

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