Welding man
Well-known Member
- Location
- West Virginia
Customer brought in a NH BR7060 Round baler. He said it had a bad bearing. It has baled around 8000 Bales. Our experience with these balers is at 10,000 Bales problems start to show up. We check it out and find he has a bad bearing in the sledge assembly. Quite a bit of work to get it out, so I told him,given the number of bales it has baled we probably need to replace all the bearings while we are in there, he agreed. Check with NH and guess what? They will not sell you the 2 bearings that we need! You have to buy the gears with the bearings inside at a whopping 373.70 each x2. The idler gear bearing is available at 51.23 and the other 2 bearings are 171.70 and 47.35 respectively. Over a grand for 5 bearings.This baler must have close to 25 bearings. No wonder a new baler costs $45,000.00.