What's the story with McHale fusions thinking of buying second hand but massive variation of bale count to the condition of balers do contractors have a spare module for the cab showing a bale count on eash when selling your shown the module with the lesser number of bales any ideas out there thanks in advance
McHale fusion
- Thread starter Stevio
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Buy a rebuilt machine and the bale count won't make much differance , I'd say the average fusion is doing 8-10 k bales / yr , plenty of 3-5 yr old machines with 30-50 k bales , a new set of chains , a reconditioned pick up reel , and a new rotor bearing and there not much else to give trouble. Great machine.
- Location
- Shropshire
As far as I'm aware the total bale count is actually on the machine, had a new box on mine, still showed the same grand total of bales so can't be fiddled.
Billydooker
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Stumbled across a 2004 mark 1 Mchale fusion at a dealers yard local to me.... it looks as though it's seen a fair bit of work and is priced accordingly at £12k.
I'm handy with spanners so was thinking I could do it up.
Wouldn't be contracting with it, just our own stuff up to 1000bales a year.
Would it be too much of a gamble at that age of a machine with the complexity of it?[emoji848]
I'm handy with spanners so was thinking I could do it up.
Wouldn't be contracting with it, just our own stuff up to 1000bales a year.
Would it be too much of a gamble at that age of a machine with the complexity of it?[emoji848]
s~~t shoveller
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- Location
- lincs
if your handy with the spanners and enjoy or are good at maintenance then get on and get it bought,maintenance and not being scared to spend a few hundred or more on parts will see you well.run older gear here ,big parts bill sometimes but then I think of the lack of depreciation ...
Billydooker
Member
Yeah same here my parts bill per year is eye watering but I look upon it as though I'm not updating machines/tractors regularly so saving a lot that way.
- Location
- Shropshire
Maybe depends on what the age of the machine is? We traded a v660 for a fusion vario which has the same box as a fusion 3 plus. Completely different from the v660 although I never had a new box on mine so can't comment.
- Location
- South West
I had a bad year a couple years ago as very quickly spent over 4k in repairs. 2x new tyres, a roller with sprocket and bearings, pickup cam as a bearing went, a few chains and both those sendors on the wrapper unit as those for a 1000 Bale user will be as regular as anyone else at 12-24 months and around £200 x2 and a PTO shaft which Fusions eat for fun
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Greenhorn
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I had a bad year a couple years ago as very quickly spent over 4k in repairs. 2x new tyres, a roller with sprocket and bearings, pickup cam as a bearing went, a few chains and both those sendors on the wrapper unit as those for a 1000 Bale user will be as regular as anyone else at 12-24 months and around £200 x2 and a PTO shaft which Fusions eat for fun
Heavy duty pto shaft is the way forward [emoji137]
The main cause of pto shaft trouble is caused by trying to push grass through blunt knives. Too much pressure required.Heavy duty pto shaft is the way forward [emoji137]
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
Wise words.
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
The main cause is too much horsepower, that & 30ft rows, they ain't a SP harvester.
Mursal
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I had a bad year a couple years ago as very quickly spent over 4k in repairs. 2x new tyres, a roller with sprocket and bearings, pickup cam as a bearing went, a few chains and both those sendors on the wrapper unit as those for a 1000 Bale user will be as regular as anyone else at 12-24 months and around £200 x2 and a PTO shaft which Fusions eat for fun
Any way to get sensors for a different supplier, sounds expensive
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
We had 115000 bales on our original old F1 by the time it cut through the chamber skins
Great machine, it had its advantages and disadvantages compared to the F2 - the bale transfer was much more reliable on the F2 but you could see the shape of your wrapped bale on the F1.
As above, if you don't mind changing the odd bearing and keep the chains in good order they are hard to kill, the 1 you had to keep the slots and slides in the transfer mechanism clean and lubed but I still liked it just fine. Early control boxes were a bit jurassic.
Great machine, it had its advantages and disadvantages compared to the F2 - the bale transfer was much more reliable on the F2 but you could see the shape of your wrapped bale on the F1.
As above, if you don't mind changing the odd bearing and keep the chains in good order they are hard to kill, the 1 you had to keep the slots and slides in the transfer mechanism clean and lubed but I still liked it just fine. Early control boxes were a bit jurassic.
- Location
- South West
They aren't sensors but rather senders as come with a battery pack of such but when that's gone it's gone, end of. They communicate via radio I guess as there's and aerial on their receiver box.
- Location
- North West Wales
And netting on corners, they just don’t like it! Always straighten it up when the net is being put on and door opening etc.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Oh yes those stupid senders, we had 3 or 4 fusions and they all had their little troubles.
Just silly stuff like the cut&holds accumulator leaking and the odd thing going awry, I can't think of a more simple way of putting a row of grass into a wrapped bale though. Very little PTO issues though, but we always did big double headlands and baled them first as a rule which meant no tight turns under load, and shifted the drawbars on the tractors right up where a PUH would be so the front UJ was aligned with the tow eye.
Our main breakage was usually chain until we got better chains on them, but most of our balers would do 35k bales per year.
I say "we" and "ours" but I only worked there as an operator/Mr Fixit
Just silly stuff like the cut&holds accumulator leaking and the odd thing going awry, I can't think of a more simple way of putting a row of grass into a wrapped bale though. Very little PTO issues though, but we always did big double headlands and baled them first as a rule which meant no tight turns under load, and shifted the drawbars on the tractors right up where a PUH would be so the front UJ was aligned with the tow eye.
Our main breakage was usually chain until we got better chains on them, but most of our balers would do 35k bales per year.
I say "we" and "ours" but I only worked there as an operator/Mr Fixit