Hesston 4600 baler

[bobk]

Hi I run a 4600 here in NZ with a sledge... could I pm you some questions, cheers Peter

I've got a 4600 .

 

[PBW]

I've got a 4600 .

Do you use an accumulator or a sledge, I have just started useing an accumulator which has an issue of the 1st bale not dropping parallel to the next tray. The manual states not to do balage with it. just wondering if any has tried that. my balage length bale id 1m / 1.2m / 1.5m... and hay is only 1.5 eg 5/6 bale equi.. 100 to 120kg

 

[bobk]

Do you use an accumulator or a sledge, I have just started useing an accumulator which has an issue of the 1st bale not dropping parallel to the next tray. The manual states not to do balage with it. just wondering if any has tried that. my balage length bale id 1m / 1.2m / 1.5m... and hay is only 1.5 eg 5/6 bale equi.. 100 to 120kg

Accumalator , check the springs at the back , I had same issue as one was broken and releasing too late

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It’s just a case of fiddling around with the adjustable linkage because you’ve got one side of the sledge letting the bale down fractionally before the other.

Do you use an accumulator or a sledge, I have just started useing an accumulator which has an issue of the 1st bale not dropping parallel to the next tray. The manual states not to do balage with it. just wondering if any has tried that. my balage length bale id 1m / 1.2m / 1.5m... and hay is only 1.5 eg 5/6 bale equi.. 100 to 120kg

The weight should be no bother at all. Once or twice we were asked to bale grass so wet there was juice dripping out the bottom of the chamber.

 

[PBW]

It’s just a case of fiddling around with the adjustable linkage because you’ve got one side of the sledge letting the bale down fractionally before the other.



The weight should be no bother at all. Once or twice we were asked to bale grass so wet there was juice dripping out the bottom of the chamber.

Thanks guys Ill keep working on that.. good to know about Balage / haylage weight [for drystock / horses] as that would save me heaps of time putting 1 bale on top of the 2nd bale and then stacking them on to the Goweil static wrapper.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I wasn’t too keen on the baling and wrapping job, but my brother did tens of thousands of them.

He just had the nack of getting them running like a sewing machine.

The accumulator could be very sensitive to forward speed and/or the speed of the bales pushing out of the chamber. Sometimes, no matter what was done with the accumulator, just a fraction less speed was all that was needed to cure the problem.

Also, if the grass was very long you could get material connecting two bales together momentarily until the bale dropped down in the accumulator sledge. You wouldn’t notice that from the tractor seat and it was surprising how little stuff it took just to hold that one side of the bale up momentarily, causing it to drop one sided.

 

[PBW]

I wasn’t too keen on the baling and wrapping job, but my brother did tens of thousands of them.

He just had the nack of getting them running like a sewing machine.

The accumulator could be very sensitive to forward speed and/or the speed of the bales pushing out of the chamber. Sometimes, no matter what was done with the accumulator, just a fraction less speed was all that was needed to cure the problem.

Also, if the grass was very long you could get material connecting two bales together momentarily until the bale dropped down in the accumulator sledge. You wouldn’t notice that from the tractor seat and it was surprising how little stuff it took just to hold that one side of the bale up momentarily, causing it to drop one sided.

Yes.. I have a camera mounted to keep an eye on the bale shute or the accumulater, What i did play around with was reducing the ground speed [therefore chamber shunt speed just before the bale was to trip. That seemed to help. The biggest problem was when the trip lever was at the very back poistion when the hay bales would not drop correctly. I then moved the trip forward which seemed to help. pic attached. Looking at utube vids it seems the bales are longer than the max of 1.5 that i make. My 10 bale equi balage is only 1.5m l. what length bales did you guys pump out. ? Balage and hay.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I think a max of 1.5m on grass but, as I said, I didn’t do too much of it.

They were 1.8m on straw though.