NH br7060 round baler

[foxhoun]

My 7060 round baler will stop when
The bale is full but will not wrap it or count the number of bales. I can wrap the bales by extending and retracting the duck bill
Anyone have an idea where to start correcting this problem.

Thanks
Foxhoun

 

[flying belgian]

My 7060 round baler will stop when
The bale is full but will not wrap it or count the number of bales. I can wrap the bales by extending and retracting the duck bill
Anyone have an idea where to start correcting this problem.

Thanks
Foxhoun

Oh my God. My 648 does the same thing. I've tried everything. Looks like Wed. I will be able to cut some grass hay near my place when it is ready I am having dealer come out and get mine going. Standby,,

 

[Destroked 450]

Don’t know anything about the net wrap models other than it’s all controlled by the monitor

 

[mtf]

So your baler is not communicating to your monitor that you have a full baler.
I assume your baler size is programmed in the monitor. There is a sensor on the baler that tells monitor it has a full bale. It might need adjusting or even replacing. If the monitor does not recognize a full bale, regardless if you manually put net on it. It will not count the bale. I hope you have both manuals, the one for the baler and the one for the monitor. Nathan


I am assuming you have the tie set to automatic and not manual.

 

[flying belgian]

My 7060 round baler will stop when
The bale is full but will not wrap it or count the number of bales. I can wrap the bales by extending and retracting the duck bill
Anyone have an idea where to start correcting this problem.

Thanks
Foxhoun

Besides that I have another problem with my 648. That's right, I have 2 problems. Can't get it to start a bale. I've tried pto fast pto slow travel fast, travel slow. I've tried alfalfa, grass and mixed. It did start bales in corn stalks last fall.

 

[mtf]

When you say it won't start a roll, what is it doing?

 

[flying belgian]

It builds up behind the pickup. Last time it pushed so hard without starting to roll that it kinda pushed the belts to the side until they twisted an got on top each other.

 

[mtf]

So on a 660 which was the first belt nh baler, they were sometimes hard to start a roll. There were a few things you could do to help.
Don't let hay get too dry before baking.
On our 660, you you had an adjustment where you could lower the axles, which caused the hay to feed easier into the bale chamber. This sounds improbable but it did help.
The last thing to try, because of the cost, would be belt replacement. If the rough top of the belts has worn to a smooth surface, then the belts might need replacement.
The BR series of balers were much better about starting a bale. They had steel bars welded to a couple of the rollers.

The manual says to start feeding the baler on one side, and weave back and forth until bale starts to form.
Are you raking with a roll bar rake? From our experience a wheel rake windrow will start and feed easier into the baler.

 

[DRussell]

Besides that I have another problem with my 648. That's right, I have 2 problems. Can't get it to start a bale. I've tried pto fast pto slow travel fast, travel slow. I've tried alfalfa, grass and mixed. It did start bales in corn stalks last fall.

This is the biggest problem with a belt baler. New belts will help for a while, but even they won't always start a bale rolling. The surefire fix is to buy a fixed chamber baler. The bale isn't quite as tight in the center, but it always starts spinning.

 

[MJMJ]

It's a problem for SOME belt balers. Certainly not all.

 

[flying belgian]

So on a 660 which was the first belt nh baler, they were sometimes hard to start a roll. There were a few things you could do to help.
Don't let hay get too dry before baking.
On our 660, you you had an adjustment where you could lower the axles, which caused the hay to feed easier into the bale chamber. This sounds improbable but it did help.
The last thing to try, because of the cost, would be belt replacement. If the rough top of the belts has worn to a smooth surface, then the belts might need replacement.
The BR series of balers were much better about starting a bale. They had steel bars welded to a couple of the rollers.

The manual says to start feeding the baler on one side, and weave back and forth until bale starts to form.
Are you raking with a roll bar rake? From our experience a wheel rake windrow will start and feed easier into the baler.

Raking with a rotary rake. I've tried big windrow and small. Rotary rake makes them fluffy. Could that be my problem?

 

[flying belgian]

So on a 660 which was the first belt nh baler, they were sometimes hard to start a roll. There were a few things you could do to help.
Don't let hay get too dry before baking.
On our 660, you you had an adjustment where you could lower the axles, which caused the hay to feed easier into the bale chamber. This sounds improbable but it did help.
The last thing to try, because of the cost, would be belt replacement. If the rough top of the belts has worn to a smooth surface, then the belts might need replacement.
The BR series of balers were much better about starting a bale. They had steel bars welded to a couple of the rollers.

The manual says to start feeding the baler on one side, and weave back and forth until bale starts to form.
Are you raking with a roll bar rake? From our experience a wheel rake windrow will start and feed easier into the baler.

When I asked if service could send guy out they asked how many bales on counter? 22,000 He said we'll somebody got it to work. So we should be able to. I cut some hay yesterday for them to practice on. Its sprinkling on it now but then week of good weather coming.
Stay tuned.

 

[MJMJ]

Raking with a rotary rake. I've tried big windrow and small. Rotary rake makes them fluffy. Could that be my problem?

No. Hundreds of thousands of bales have been made with a BR baler and rotary rake. I have a neighbor operation that runs the same combo, with roto cutters, and his guys running it don’t even hesitate to start a bale, they drop a bale and then its full speed into the windrow. Something is wrong somewhere. So the baler doesn’t even pull the hay into the chamber? Or does it start to pull it in and then start piling up in there?

 

[mtf]

Are all the rollers on the sledge assembly turning when the belts turn?

 

[Destroked 450]

It builds up behind the pickup. Last time it pushed so hard without starting to roll that it kinda pushed the belts to the side until they twisted a got on top each other.

What pickup do you have, standard 4’ pickup or the wider extra sweep or super sweep
The standard pickup pushes the hay into the bale chamber, but on the wider pickups the the pickup teeth moves the hay back to a set of stuffer fingers that pushes the hay up into the bale chamber
If the stuffer fingers are not working properly hay won’t be feed into the bale chamber properly
Are all the sledge rollers turning
Belt tension is important on those balers, if to loose the belts will push back and separate before the hay starts turning
I have a BR7070 and had a 640 silage baler
When the belts wore out on the 640 I had to idle down and feed a little hay in then stop and let the bale get started, then throttle up and go
The belts had been on the baler for 20 years when I sold it

 

[flying belgian]

Are all the rollers on the sledge assembly turning when the belts turn?

I have 4 acres of grass cut getting rained on right now. It is a field 800 ft from where I am typing this. It is over mature and not much quality. When it is dry dealer is sending guy out and he can try on that 4 acres as much as he wants. No hurry to get it baled as I am going to take it to the local auction and get what I get. I will leave it unraked until he gets here and he can tell me how big of windrows he would like me to rake. He can have at it as long as he wants. If he can make it work I will pay bill and keep it. If he cannot get it to work I will pay bill and sell it.