Overcoming Tying Failure in Roll Baler

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 6, 15 December 1953, Page 538

Overcoming Tying Failure in Roll Baler

AN attachment which a Kaikoura farmer has fitted to his roll hay baler to overcome a twine tying trouble which sometimes occurs is illustrated at right. A strong cross wind will at times cause the string to blow sideways and it may flip up over the side of the feeder platform so that it is not caught by the hay on the press roller and taken in to tie the bale. When this happens with standard machines the only course is to stop the tractor, stop the baler by putting the power take-off out of gear, dismount, and walk to the feeder platform and correct the position of the string. ; However, - with . the attachment illustrated the tying trouble can be corrected from the tractor.: A cord (indicated by arrows)', is tied to the lower end, of the twine tube and is led up through a small pulley fitted to the hood of the baler and thence to the tractor seat. / By merely pulling this cord the driver is able to move the twine tube sideways so that the twine (previously caught on top of the side sheet of the feeder platform) is pulled back into its correct position. Then a pull on the cord to the . righthand trip crank causes more hay to move up and take the twine into the bale chamber. This attachment is strongly recommended to all operators and owners of roll balers because it is felt that it will do much to correct a condition which operators are sometimes tempted to . rectify in ways which . expose them to risk of injury.

—C. J. CROSBIE,

Machinery Instructor, Department of Agriculture, Christchurch