square baler upgrade

[Kelly Campbell]

hey all,

currently I have a massey 120 square baler which this last time around didn"t do so well in windrows that are not the best and had some tieing issues when trying to make a lighter bale(knots hanging on the bill hooks), would moving up to a new holland 315 help me at all and how do the two balers compare to each other?

Thanks,
Kelly

 

[Anonymous-0]

Kelly, the 315 NH will eat that MF. I used one for several years on Talitha Freemans farm at Schoolsville and it was a hay baling machine. When she had her sale Melvin Crowe bought it and ran it for several more years.

 

[Kelly Campbell]

Thanks,

I got to thinking about it when after I posted the message and realized the my MF120 is missing a hay dog on the out side edge of the bale chamber, apparently this was a upgrade when you got a 124, I'm wondering if adding one will help to solve the problem as thats the side that is loose....I plan on going to look at the 315 tommorow morning.

 

[Mike (WA)]

My first thought when reading your post was that if you get that 315, you can just go ahead and bale up the 120 along with the hay. But Georgeky beat me to it.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Kelly without that hay dog it is nearly impossible for it to tie. I had an old Ford baler with all the hay dog springs broken in it and it would not tie the first bale. The guy I got it from spent 600 dollars at the Ford dealer having it worked on and all the time it was those springs. I went to the hardware store and bought the closest springs they had and it worked fine.

 

[Kelly Campbell]

I talked to two other people today and have pretty much come to the realization that the hay dogs are needed on the outside edge of the bale chamber, I think that I"m going to try this route first and see what happens, There will always be other balers around to get, this might make a low cost fix to the problem....

Kelly

 

[Blue Buddy]

if your baler is making bananna bales, make sure all the hay dogs it came with are working properly, make sure any bale forming wedges are installed in pairs, 1 on each side, and then if the crop is very light or heavy adjust your packer fork for it, it has 3 holes I think and they adjust how far across the bale chamber the hay is deposited and does often require adjustment for very light or very heavy crops, just beware when yu pull the pin, depending on the position of the packer fork it will likely move and is heavy and awkward, hope this helps

 

[Big un]

Hey,Kelly.We have baled with a 315 for years and as everyone else has said,it is a haying machine.You can"t go wrong with it.Besides you can get every part on it from NH.Good luck.

Bigun