The crank for the pickup on the 648 Newholland baler
snapped off this summer while baling straw. There?s a
machine threaded shaft that goes through a block that
provides the pull to lift the pickup and I?m guessing years of
bouncing while suspended it created a weak spot and finally
broke off. I never noticed till I was finished the field it broke in
and never did find the missing piece. I called our local dealer
and every parted out newholland baler they had was already
missing the pickup crank. The threaded shaft and handle are
two separate pieces,I can?t remember the exact total but tho
threaded shaft and handle are in the area of $350? Whatever
the exact cost I wasn?t paying that for it. We have a
Newholland 56 rake parted out so I took one of the crank
handles off of it. I cut the block out of the part on the rake and
the same in the baler as the threads weren?t quite the same
size. The rake handle shaft was around 4? so I cut 7? of thread
and left 5? of smoothe then cut the handle off and rewelded it
to what was left of the shaft. I then welded a piece of tubing
close to the handle to hold the washer and a bearing for a
spacer to run up against the slot on the baler. It didn?t turn out
as pretty as I hoped but for only having a grinder welder and
hack saw it works good. I drilled a hole in the thread near the
end and put a pin in it so the handle doesn?t uncrank itself
completely off and gets lost again.
snapped off this summer while baling straw. There?s a
machine threaded shaft that goes through a block that
provides the pull to lift the pickup and I?m guessing years of
bouncing while suspended it created a weak spot and finally
broke off. I never noticed till I was finished the field it broke in
and never did find the missing piece. I called our local dealer
and every parted out newholland baler they had was already
missing the pickup crank. The threaded shaft and handle are
two separate pieces,I can?t remember the exact total but tho
threaded shaft and handle are in the area of $350? Whatever
the exact cost I wasn?t paying that for it. We have a
Newholland 56 rake parted out so I took one of the crank
handles off of it. I cut the block out of the part on the rake and
the same in the baler as the threads weren?t quite the same
size. The rake handle shaft was around 4? so I cut 7? of thread
and left 5? of smoothe then cut the handle off and rewelded it
to what was left of the shaft. I then welded a piece of tubing
close to the handle to hold the washer and a bearing for a
spacer to run up against the slot on the baler. It didn?t turn out
as pretty as I hoped but for only having a grinder welder and
hack saw it works good. I drilled a hole in the thread near the
end and put a pin in it so the handle doesn?t uncrank itself
completely off and gets lost again.
