Oliver Baler

[oliverlover982]

I have an Oliver 62t baler and last fall when we were baling our last field of hay I ran it out of twine, when i put the new twine in the baler quit tieing. I've made different adjustments going off what the manual i have for it recomended and the timing seems correct but it will not tie its the same brand of twine size the whole nine yards. Any one got any ideas on what may have caused this and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Joe

 

[jordan hackman]

maybe the knives went bad. same thing happened on ours when we first tried to bale with it.

 

[Larry NEIL]

Have someone turn the flywheel by hand til it goes through a tying cycle by hand. It will give you a chance to watch closley and see if you can determine any problems.
Could be any of a number of things, from broken springs on the knotters, to misalignment of the needles.
When you cycle it by hand you have the oppertunity to stop any time in the sequence.

 

[oliverlover982]

I've cycled it by hand and nothing appears out of place. I haven't tried new knives but it's worth a shot. Thanks for the suggestions

 

[Joho]

Many years ago we had the same problem, we found that the holes in the needles were wore oblong and the knotters couldn't grab the twine during the cycle. we brazed the holes back to original size, end of problem.

 

[jvickerd]

take a look at the twine from one of your bales that tied good. compair that twine with new twine. there may be a difference, that can"t be seen unless compared. we had same problem and found a bad batch of twine. somehow the new twine was thinner than should be, not tieing, bales braking, you name it, it happened.

 

[BANDITFARMER]

What I have learned over the years about my 520 Oliver baler is it needs to have the bigger heavy twine to make concistent knots. It will not tie a knot with poly twine BTDT! Its harder to find but its what the bailer was designed to run with. I would try a new bale of twine thats heaver and see if that solves the problem. I allso found out on my baler runs better when I droped the engine RPMs down alittle. Bandit