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Preacherman said:
Whats it doing? I was a career heavy equipment tech for 45 years...not that I know much about hay bailing
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Hydraulics were getting hot, which we finally figured out was one of the four bale tension cylinders was leaking internally causing the baler to continuously supply hydraulic fluid to it. It's a closed system so not a lot of fluid, with no cooling fans or radiator, only a 3 gallon reservoir, but the only time the pump is supposed to run is wrapping and dumping the bale. Also the mesh wouldn't cut at first so I had to get out and cut after every bale and then that devolved into just not shutting off and continuously running filling the whole baler with net wrap that I had to cut out. Still haven't figured that out yet, neither has the tech. Did another 20 bales yesterday, which was the last of first cutting, and the wrap never screwed up once. I guess it was a Monday gremlin. Just had to stop every 10 bales and sit for 5 minutes to let the hydraulics cool. So going to pull the cylinder off and take it to brozeins and let them rebuild it. They work on them everyday and can do it much better than i can.
 
Copejunkie said:
Hydraulics were getting hot, which we finally figured out was one of the four bale tension cylinders was leaking internally causing the baler to continuously supply hydraulic fluid to it. It's a closed system so not a lot of fluid, with no cooling fans or radiator, only a 3 gallon reservoir, but the only time the pump is supposed to run is wrapping and dumping the bale. Also the mesh wouldn't cut at first so I had to get out and cut after every bale and then that devolved into just not shutting off and continuously running filling the whole baler with net wrap that I had to cut out. Still haven't figured that out yet, neither has the tech. Did another 20 bales yesterday, which was the last of first cutting, and the wrap never screwed up once. I guess it was a Monday gremlin. Just had to stop every 10 bales and sit for 5 minutes to let the hydraulics cool. So going to pull the cylinder off and take it to brozeins and let them rebuild it. They work on them everyday and can do it much better than i can.
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I have worked with hydraulics maintenance most of my career and would just like to say that once the system gets so small that you can't cool the hydraulic liquid, even minor problems become catastrophic to the system. It is a pain in the butt for both the user and repair tech. Here is to hoping it's just a O ring or one of the wiper rings without need to hone or replace the cylinder.
 
batchaps4me said:
I have worked with hydraulics maintenance most of my career and would just like to say that once the system gets so small that you can't cool the hydraulic liquid, even minor problems become catastrophic to the system. It is a pain in the butt for both the user and repair tech. Here is to hoping it's just a O ring or one of the wiper rings without need to hone or replace the cylinder.
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That's what I'm hoping for.
 
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