belt joiners do they work?

[seedman stains]

Seen a newish baler but the belts have a few nicks in,sods law would say if i got it a belt would break in the first few yards is a jointed belt a short term fix?

 

[roscoe erf]

yes

 

[yellowbelly]

As above - it's the weakest 'link in the chain', especially for heavy work (silage).
If you're only baling straw it's easier on the belts but you'll still pull a few joiners out. Every time that happens and you put a new joiner in, that belt is a touch shorter and therefore gets more load so it becomes a vicious circle

 

[TripleSix]

When I buy a new belt I get one with a joiner in, Mato joiners are the best apparently.

I think I'm going to buy my own joiner kit, just missed out on a second hand one on here...

 

[Tim G]

If you cut the nicks to the correct shape you can stop them becoming tears.

 

[case 5140]

As above - it's the weakest 'link in the chain', especially for heavy work (silage).
If you're only baling straw it's easier on the belts but you'll still pull a few joiners out. Every time that happens and you put a new joiner in, that belt is a touch shorter and therefore gets more load so it becomes a vicious circle

To join it right you need to put 2 joins in, 1 foot a part by cutting a foot off the belt and using a foot off another old belt(aprox to get to the same length as it was),works with JD balers

 

[seedman stains]

The baler that i was looking at was a kuhn with endless belts but i notice in the publicity for the vicon 5116 it mentions joiners in the belts are these the same ?
Any users with this type of baler got any problems with the belts

 

[yellowbelly]

To join it right you need to put 2 joins in, 1 foot a part by cutting a foot off the belt and using a foot off another old belt(aprox to get to the same length as it was),works with JD balers

I'd agree with that, but then you have twice as many lacings to keep an eye on/snag on the net wrap etc. When we ran JDs each tractor had a vice and a belt lacer on it at all times - since we switched to Welger (endless belts) there's virtually no belt trouble at all.