Rich - 5/26/2008 19:58

Also.........

Twine arms get stuck going over half way walk out and pull the trigger that they hit that reverses the flow and sends them back over to the home position. Good possibility they will take back off and come over and you'll have half a bale tied.

Now I can't remember if you can just pull your rope and make the arms take off again or if you have to reset the full bale trigger on the right side of the machine. If you can find it and reset it and then pull the rope the arms should go clear across and tie the whole bale then before you eject it. If not and it only goes half way then there is a possibility that underneat there is a rectangular block that has a grease zerk on it and alot of people never see that zerk and it doesn't get greased and it can bind on that shaft and stop the arms from going clear across. Plus the other ideas some have tossed out.

Whenever I had this happen I slightly changed settings on the twine arm speed and it usually fixed it.

That twine arm system on those balers were the biggest downfall. I still have mine from new in 92 and like it except for that stupid twine arm system. That and it doesn't start a bale of feed worth a crap. Alfalfa, straw, grass, no problems. Try to bale something long stemmed like cane and it is forever making a core so you can get rolling and make a bale. Once it starts the core, no problems. Getting the core started on Feed will drive a man to drink and wish a bearing go out and set the green p.o.s. on fire.