Couple baler ????'s

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2011

Getting ready to bale straw for the first time in a couple days. Just jump in and bale like it is hay, or do I need to do other adjustments?

Also, is there a trick to splicing in a new spool of twine to keep from having to rethread when one runs empty (plastic twine)?

Thanks, Dave

flying belgian · Jul 17, 2011

Yep, just do it. One thing you will find is you can run the baler much fuller with straw then hay. It just gobbles it up. Also you have to turn the twine tension down much tighter. Takes more tension to hold that slippery straw back. I don't know about your knots. Sometimes mine go. Sometimes they don't. I use sissel.

Janicholson · Jul 17, 2011

As Flying indicates.
A single knot, then take the two ends and fuse them together with the flame from a lighter. Roll the fused area to adhere the ends together, then tighten the single knot. This makes a splice that is (usually) a pass through. Jim

rustred · Jul 17, 2011

has to be a square knot.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2011

Thanks folks.... Got a spool getting ready to run out. Will try it.

Dave

Tony S. · Jul 17, 2011

Square knot goes through needles easier thsn overhand knot on my NH baler.

rrlund · Jul 17, 2011

It's been 30 years since I baled a square bale,but as I recall,we either had to crank the tension down tighter or back it off when we went from hay to straw. I'm thinking it had to be backed off some.

Tyler Jackson · Jul 17, 2011

We leave ours the same for hay and straw. It spits em out at the same tightness

Anonymous-0 · Jul 17, 2011

There is another knot, besides the square knot, that an old farmer taught me. You start out with the first part of a square knot, or the first knot you tie on your shoes. Instead of completing the square knot, you fray each end of the twine, and twirl the ends, together, like you are rolling a booger, between your thumb, and forefinger. While still holding on to the frayed, and intertwined ends, you pull the knot tight, and release the ends, as you draw it tight. With this knot, you don't have to trim any twine, off of the ends. It will pass through the knotter, and once you learn to tie it, it is faster, and stronger than a true square knot.

DeltaRed · Jul 17, 2011

I tie a square knot-leave 6" tails.But I will try that other method tommorow

northvale · Jul 18, 2011

straw is much 'slicker' and lighter than hay. Tighten the tension all the way. Maybe make the bales longer too. I have used plastic twine on straw, not 1 knot broke. But the thinner string is tuff on the hands when stacking.

Leroy · Jul 18, 2011

That sounds like what we used but only on the sisle twine, tried one bale of plastic and never bought it again but I imagine twine has changed in last 30 years.

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