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New Brunswick, Canada | I have a very high bale count 1840 that works great but it wasn't always the case.
Big issue is dealers don't know how to work on square balers
Ours arrived from previous owner who was pissed off at it after a bunch of work at the dealer. The problems I found:
-Plunger safety stop not adjusted correctly and would catch the plunger and shear the bolts every time the hay was heavy. Open up the top and see if the paint is beat off the crank arm. Dealer had set it too tight and damaged part of the linkage so had to fix the attachment to the needle frame.
-The safety stop should have had lots of clearance even set up poorly except the needles and knotter were timed and clearanced to the wire tire section of the manual. It shouldn't have even tied.
-The packer fork was 2 or 3 teeth out on timing, lucky it wasn't damaged too. It had plugged on me the first windrow I tried when it arrived. Never plugged it since.
-Twine disc timing was off one one side. Bunch of old twine jammed in there too.
-Tucker fingers way out of adjustment and one linkage had clearly over centred and bent things at one point.
-Wiper not adjusted right.
Went from breaking multiple bolts a day baling 1/2 the speed of my old 336 to way faster than my JD 348. I can't recall a mistie in the last 10,000 bales or so since that work. In good thick timothy you can crank out 500+ bales an hour.
If you were closer I'd trade my good condition JD 348 for yours as it is!
Edited by slowzuki 6/23/2020 05:54
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Hesston/Massey Ferguson 1840 Square Baler
