Appreciate seeing this! Always curious to learn more about the NH knotters - surprises me how many differences there are from the older Masseys. Now I’m curious to look even closer at mine.
Very good video. Thanks a bunch. Can’t wait to get that 273 back in the field after that trouble we had last time. It baled that last 100 yards without issue but I’m still nervous so I’m going to keep checking it over till it’s right and time to go again.
Thanks for the very clear explanation. Very useful for people with knotter problems. I liked very much solving knotter problems but missed those simple explanations. For most operators, like me being a teenager doing custom baling in my father's contractor business and later on my own account, It was scary to adjust a knotter in the field at first as it seemed a very complicated apparatus. Bale loaders waiting, so I drove away to the far end to avoid their advice. But I learned to fix it. We operated in hay and straw three New Holland balers. With a Welger AP 12 came a 78, Welger out for a 278 and 68. Later changes to the 286 monster wirh big appetite and Gallignani 7000 (unfortunately) and the 286 changed for a 945. We did 100,000 bales a year so I developed a good repair ability. But you showed me new things like the use of shims. Something about the Welger AP 12. A very solid machine but the capacity was a bit too low. The model was just on the market so an engineer from the factory came with it for instructions. He said: es kann nicht kaputt. Father: aber wohl krumm. Meaning it cannot break down and the answer was: it will bend. This was 1959.
Help! I've been working on my 273 for 3 days to get the needles to rehome. I can't budge the yoke. I think your films are superb but can't find one on getting jammed needles freed up. Appreciate your channel so much.
Are you pulling on the yoke or the brake arm? Are your needles up in the knotters or below the bale chamber? There can only be two reasons they won’t rehome: your spring or the flat bar to the safety latch is seized up, or your knotter brake is too tight or seized up.
Dang,I don't own a baler, nor do I cut hay, but you sir make this stuff clear, and interesting! Thank you for taking the time to make these videos
Appreciate seeing this! Always curious to learn more about the NH knotters - surprises me how many differences there are from the older Masseys. Now I’m curious to look even closer at mine.
Very good video. Thanks a bunch. Can’t wait to get that 273 back in the field after that trouble we had last time. It baled that last 100 yards without issue but I’m still nervous so I’m going to keep checking it over till it’s right and time to go again.
Thanks for the very clear explanation. Very useful for people with knotter problems. I liked very much solving knotter problems but missed those simple explanations. For most operators, like me being a teenager doing custom baling in my father's contractor business and later on my own account, It was scary to adjust a knotter in the field at first as it seemed a very complicated apparatus. Bale loaders waiting, so I drove away to the far end to avoid their advice. But I learned to fix it. We operated in hay and straw three New Holland balers. With a Welger AP 12 came a 78, Welger out for a 278 and 68. Later changes to the 286 monster wirh big appetite and Gallignani 7000 (unfortunately) and the 286 changed for a 945. We did 100,000 bales a year so I developed a good repair ability. But you showed me new things like the use of shims. Something about the Welger AP 12. A very solid machine but the capacity was a bit too low. The model was just on the market so an engineer from the factory came with it for instructions. He said: es kann nicht kaputt. Father: aber wohl krumm. Meaning it cannot break down and the answer was: it will bend. This was 1959.
As usual...very well demonstrated and useful. And all this time I thought you were making this up!
Haha! Extra credit for making it through the entire video!
@@TheScientistHayFarmer No...seriously. I'm headed to the shed to check the knotter on my JD 336.
Very useful, thank you. I have a MF #12 baler and will be looking closer at it.
Thanks for the info. I’ll be checking mine before we start 2nd cut.
Help! I've been working on my 273 for 3 days to get the needles to rehome. I can't budge the yoke. I think your films are superb but can't find one on getting jammed needles freed up. Appreciate your channel so much.
Are you pulling on the yoke or the brake arm? Are your needles up in the knotters or below the bale chamber?
There can only be two reasons they won’t rehome: your spring or the flat bar to the safety latch is seized up, or your knotter brake is too tight or seized up.
Hey, Where did you buy the pins for the hold down for the half of Knotters?
Any New Holland dealer like Rochester New Holland or Messicks.