Camless vs cammed pick up reel
- Thread starter Rsh6150R
- Start date
Why would you swap the pick up, if it works, it works.
Drive shaft is needing replacing and the key way utterly buggered and the cam track is fairly worn out, so either way the pick up reel is needing rebuildingWhy would you swap the pick up, if it works, it works.
If the pick up is that razzed is the rest of the baler worth putting a new pick up on?
- Location
- North West Wales
You can weld the shaft back up and machine a new key way groove 180 degree from original. Most 3s seem to do it, must of changed the steel. The F1s had a solid centre camtrack housing. 2 onwards went to hollow, if you loose or seize a cam bearing the stub will soom wear the camtrack down. Bearings need replacing as precautionary matter every two years really if you’re a heavy user. Easily done through the access hole
mengeleguru
Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
On the Lely forager camless products we have sold in the past the reliability is so much better and tine loss also.
grass man
Member
You have answered ur own question. Apart from replacing tines a camless will outlast the rest of the baler
- Location
- Black Isle
Second that with lely/agco balers, since they moved to cam less pickup I don’t think we have been in about it at all, previous to that cam bearings were fairly regular once it got a few bales on it.
Took Lely a few goes to get the camless reel right,but once they did it was a much better job than the cammed one.
- Location
- Northumberland
What I don't like on the lely (welger) is the outer tines angled down. I guess it's to avoid dragging through the gaps. It's not as good at gathering wide bits that probably have had a wheel over them.
I have bent them up a bit, but has anyone binned them and fitted standard?
I have bent them up a bit, but has anyone binned them and fitted standard?
clbarclay
Member
- Location
- Worcestershire
What is meant to be the advantages of a cam pick up over camless?
Every thread I've seen about baler pick ups seem to suggest that everyone favors camless, which has me wondering why so many seem to have on cams... or at least worn out cams.
Every thread I've seen about baler pick ups seem to suggest that everyone favors camless, which has me wondering why so many seem to have on cams... or at least worn out cams.
No never changed them on the camless one I used to on the cam pickup I'm trying to remember if they were shorter or angled back I think mchale put short ones on the outside
I'll go against the grain as usual
When I got my first welger with a camless pickup in 2015 I was actually slower than the previous baler with a cam pickup. Also had them kicking dry short straw along in front and have it all run out one side on a steep slope not very often but it can happen I blame the extra speed they run at .
We've got a lely baler with 50k bales on and not changed a single tine yet, only thing is camless don't clean up half as well as a cammed pick up