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Now that I have everyones attention :shock: ,
baled up a couple acres yesterday of stuff that was pretty short and had a good bit of clover in it. The bales looked good, but were a little eratic as far as size and density. Could this be just caused by the short grass and some variation in size of the windrows? Other than that, baling went pretty well. My little tractor could stand to have another 20 HP, but we got by.

Dave
 
sounds like the windrows could have been more even, see what she does with thicker winrows, and report back, bale tension probably could have been tighter as well
 
My fields tend to have a lot of variation in moisture over the field, which leads to a lot of variation in windrow size, which will lead to a lot of variation in bale density and length, which leads to "Is your baler working right?" from customers. About the only thing you can do is double up windrows while raking where practical and make use of your 4 speed electronic powershift (grin) to adjust ground speed to windrow size.
 
My JD 336 only make erratic length bales in short hay. Usually 2nd cut. I can't tell if it is the count wheel or because the windrows are less consistent.
 
Never baled a bale in my life, just worked on the equipment. Given the title though I had to click and see what could be erotic about a bale of hay.........other than rolling around in it with a beautiful lady......
 
(quoted from post at 04:29:31 06/25/10) My fields tend to have a lot of variation in moisture over the field, which leads to a lot of variation in windrow size, which will lead to a lot of variation in bale density and length, which leads to "Is your baler working right?" from customers. About the only thing you can do is double up windrows while raking where practical and make use of your 4 speed electronic powershift (grin) to adjust ground speed to windrow size.
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baled about 400 today and everything went real well. Got a crash course in feeding a new spool of twine. couldn't figure why I couldn't get it. Local farmer saw my frustration and came to help. I had everything right, just forgot to thread the needle. Live and learn. Longer hay, full/even windrows, and flat ground (more consistant speed). fooled around a little with the length to make them wife friendly and I's happy.

Thanks for the tips.

Dave
 

Here's what happens on my JD 24T. The bale size is determined by gear that's driven by the bales as they pass. This gear drives a roller up a slide arm that trips when it hits a notch. This triggers the bale tie. Well, when you're baling really fluffy or thin hay, it ends up running up this slide too fast because the hay bounces back after every compression. That is, the gear goes ahead an inch, but then goes back 1/8 inch. The slide doesn't run backwards even if the gear does, so you end up running through the slide faster than you should. As long as you keep plenty of hay feeding through, it's less of an issue, but if I run around the field after I'm done baling to pick up tufts of hay I missed, I make half-sized bales. Also, bumpy ground seems to play into the problem.
 
When I am baling short third or fourth crop I usually add a couple more resistors on each side of the chamber. I do that on straw too. Dave I don't know if your baler uses them or not. They are just a wedge shaped piece of metal that bolts on the sides of the chamber. They keep the hay from bouncing back.
 
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