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| The 535 baler was top of the line in its day. However, lots of improvements have been made over the years in balers. After the 535 they made the pickup throat wider going into bale chamber I was told. It stopped a lot of plugging in heavy doubled raked crops. I used to have to take compressor rack out of baler when doing short dry crops like straw. You never stopped forward motion of baler when wrapping twine on. You gaged when bale was ready to wrap and pulled out of windrow and drove in a circle while wrapping twine. If you stayed in place while wrapping the chaff would filter down and stop twine from flowing even over bale and wouldn't return to home position to cut twine.
Just a few tricks I learned while using a 535. Also, would take duct tape and tape the flapper door to keep big windrows of straw or hay from grabbing the twine out of the lead twine arm and pulling it out as you bale. Also tightened the twine tension holder some in the twine arm if I remember. The key to good bales with a 535 was the raking of your windrow, keep the same width of bale. Quit having to weave back and forth. However, if small windrows you have to learn the proper art of weaving. Still try to adjust swather windrow to fit your baler pickup. However, my conditions totally different that most areas in the country. We lose dew to bale really fast, so baled a lot of over dry crops.
Being the 535 baler was first in their lineup to have net wrap you need to understand how to set number of cycles at rated rpms of baler to set twine wraps or number of wraps of net. I remember standing outside baler at full rpms and timing seconds it took for twine arm to cycle through and adjusting flow valve to do that with twine spacing of double arms. You set width of twine spacing by adjusting double arms with moving hair pin. Net was adjusted the same way as well with flow control valve at set rpms to set desired number of wraps. There should be a decal in right hand door to explain this. However really need to read operator's manual to fully understand this set up. All the failures I saw with guys with 535 with net was failure to understand setting the number of wraps. And being out west her in dry alfalfa, that could make a failure of your bales.
The design of the 535-baler crop came right up into baler somewhat under the bale with pickup feeding it somewhat up into bale chamber. Thus, the need to take compressor rack out in baling some crops. However future balers like 567 and later brought crop up and over pickup then into baler. 569 models etc. had augers on side of pickup to help funnel crop from wider pickups and wider throat in baler. When they did that design it was better to leave compressor rack in baler to compress crop to feeding more while driving faster.
Don't know if you have bale kicker on his one. You need to keep all springs and chains in good working order on that kicker, it will affect operation of it. Those springs fail over set number of bales, just replace them. I would also pin kicker out when doing straw bales, bales would get on wrong side of kicker a lot. Was easier to just back up while wrapping then drop bale and drive forward a little closing door. That was the old school way before they started putting kickers and ramps on balers to roll bale out of way of door gate. Check all welds on the kicker, so it doesn't break and tweak it on you. Good solid balers, but over time they made a lot of improvements. I loved they were simple to run and fix. But over time bigger crops and more acres we needed a fast higher production baler. | |
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John Deere 535
