lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
I'm following up on a post that I made last fall.
Late last summer, we picked up a NH273 baler with a thrower as a second baler.
Price was right, and, to be honest, I'm getting a little old to be walking fields all day picking up a few hundred bales put on the ground by our NH276.
With the wet weather we had, I only had one day to use the 273. It baled pretty well. Made great knots. BUT, the thrower belt was burning through the plastic twine and breaking about one bale out of every three or four.
Not acceptable. Anyway, I asked if sisal twine would be better than plastic here. I didn't really get an answer. I did get some suggestions to bale faster (which I already did) and to shorten the bales (which I didn't get to try, since we were rained out for the rest of the fall).
Anyway, it's a new season, and I pulled the 273 and 276 out of storage and put them to work last weekend. I didn't change any settings on the 273, but I bought a couple of bales of untreated 9000 foot, sisal twine.
500 bales, not a single instance of the twine getting burned through by the thrower belt.
It's going to cost more, since sisal is 59 bucks a bale, vs 30 for plastic... but no broken bales is a blessing.
And... I get tired of throwing all that plastic in the dumpster. I can at least burn untreated sisal in the wood stove (or bonfires... who doesn't like a bonfire?)
Anyway. For this particular issue Sisal > Plastic
Late last summer, we picked up a NH273 baler with a thrower as a second baler.
Price was right, and, to be honest, I'm getting a little old to be walking fields all day picking up a few hundred bales put on the ground by our NH276.
With the wet weather we had, I only had one day to use the 273. It baled pretty well. Made great knots. BUT, the thrower belt was burning through the plastic twine and breaking about one bale out of every three or four.
Not acceptable. Anyway, I asked if sisal twine would be better than plastic here. I didn't really get an answer. I did get some suggestions to bale faster (which I already did) and to shorten the bales (which I didn't get to try, since we were rained out for the rest of the fall).
Anyway, it's a new season, and I pulled the 273 and 276 out of storage and put them to work last weekend. I didn't change any settings on the 273, but I bought a couple of bales of untreated 9000 foot, sisal twine.
500 bales, not a single instance of the twine getting burned through by the thrower belt.
It's going to cost more, since sisal is 59 bucks a bale, vs 30 for plastic... but no broken bales is a blessing.
And... I get tired of throwing all that plastic in the dumpster. I can at least burn untreated sisal in the wood stove (or bonfires... who doesn't like a bonfire?)
Anyway. For this particular issue Sisal > Plastic