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Southern Nevada desert | My 7800 was bought used in 1995 with about 2500 hours, the big balers came in about 10 years ago. Probably 85% of its hours are PTO, pull type sprayer with herbicide in the spring, 1st crop on a big baler, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th on a chopper then 5th on a big baler again, its share has been about 400 acres a cutting. It has 15,872 hours now and still has the original PTO with the exception of an updated shaft and drive collar replaced early on. The PTO would not be on my list of things to worry about.
As mentioned above a 44 will need a split for the PTO, on a 78 it comes out the back in about an hour.
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I have seen a ton of big balers with the main drive clutch set wrong, the main clutch should slip a bit on every stroke to reduce the shock load on the tractor pto and driveline. Hesston wants the clutch to be warm to the touch after 20 minutes of operation, you can sometimes hear it chirp on the plunger stroke when it is set right. What usually happens is the grease fitting in the center of the clutch shaft that lubes the pilot gets over greased and floods the clutches, then it slips and gets over tightened because it basically needs the springs bottomed to hold with the clutch discs greased.
Edited by Two Hawk 1/28/2017 23:51
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JD 4455 or 7810
