Spencer
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- Location
- North West
Its amazing what you can break with the amount of HP available these days.You can’t block it so it can’t be undone, until it breaks.
Maybe the newer ones are different but the older ones weren’t very strong, the VFS was the weak point of the baler.
Dad drove it, he paid the bills too and has been driving big square balers since the mid 80s, so plenty of experience.
The record to clear the VFS was 24hrs with pliers and air chisels, thats when a cam roller broke off a VFS arm. We’ve also had cam rollers out the tracks, broken duplex chains, bearings etc.
Krone’s big marketing spiel was ‘look we’ve made a cam less pickup so it’ll be more reliable. Then they got a cammed pickup, turned it inside out, made it more complicated, and put it inside the baler where you can’t get anywhere near it.
You pays your monies and you take your chances..