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New holland round baler
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<blockquote data-quote="nxy" data-source="post: 7591072" data-attributes="member: 466"><p>We are on our 4th New Holland baler and have had both a 548 and a 740. </p><p></p><p>Both of them had the same common fault which was the woodruff keys in the packer shaft getting play in them allowing the counterweights to get out of alignment with each other. If you don't notice this the packer will quickly then shake itself to bits. Over the various generations of New Holland balers they did modifications to rectify this including splitting the packer in two halves etc but the problem remained until on the very last of the 700 series they did a modification that included a much bigger shaft. The bigger shaft came with bigger keyways so were much longer lasting.</p><p></p><p>I would never buy a New Holland baler without getting underneath it and looking at the packer. Make sure it's got no play in it and that the counterweights are at 180 degrees to the packer fingers. We now check this regularly and routinely change the woodruff keys. Careful when you get some replacements as they are imperial not metric and when you give the storeman your worn one he will measure it and give you a wrong one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nxy, post: 7591072, member: 466"] We are on our 4th New Holland baler and have had both a 548 and a 740. Both of them had the same common fault which was the woodruff keys in the packer shaft getting play in them allowing the counterweights to get out of alignment with each other. If you don't notice this the packer will quickly then shake itself to bits. Over the various generations of New Holland balers they did modifications to rectify this including splitting the packer in two halves etc but the problem remained until on the very last of the 700 series they did a modification that included a much bigger shaft. The bigger shaft came with bigger keyways so were much longer lasting. I would never buy a New Holland baler without getting underneath it and looking at the packer. Make sure it's got no play in it and that the counterweights are at 180 degrees to the packer fingers. We now check this regularly and routinely change the woodruff keys. Careful when you get some replacements as they are imperial not metric and when you give the storeman your worn one he will measure it and give you a wrong one. [/QUOTE]
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