First job baling of 2024, recorded a few days ago. My 7810 is my baling tractor, it has done 90% of the baling with the last 2 years and it's great for it. It's so small and has an unbelievable lock on it to follow sharp turns left by my lely rotonde rake. The clutch isn't too heavy, it has around 120pto-hp and you can adjust the hydraulic flows on both spool valves. It's just great for baling but unfortunately I went restoring it there back in February and it hasn't gone back together since. There's more work in repairing it than originally thought. I will get it back together eventually but just not in time for the silage this year.😔
My other tractor, the big Same Galaxy.....well that's an ongoing saga 😅😥 I will make a full in depth video about that tractor once we have all the issues found and fixed. I've had it since 2022 and had hoped it would be working for 2023 but it's 2024 now and it still has problems. I have sent it to a mechanic now who is better than me and it shouldn't be far away from being fixed now. It has had it's 2 speed pto fitted so it can go baling now and the last day I saw it, all the heads were off the engine and they were looking at the piston to head clearances for compression. There is zero wear in the engine he tells me so that's good at least.
So anyway, that's the story with my tractors and why they aren't running the baler in this video. Here we have my father's Claas Ares 557atz, the tractor which replaced our Renault after it burnt out. It makes 120hp on the pto, dyno tested, so it's well able to run the baler. It has a dyna 6 gearbox in it which is fine, I don't mind it. It's fond of diesel which is one gripe we have with it but other than that it's a nice comfortable tractor and very similar to the Renault we had before which we really liked. The spools are not the best for baling though. Only the first spool has a float function and flow control, the rest are just normal pressure and max flow spools. The first spool does the door so you can open it gently and float it closed like you're supposed to on a welger baler but the pickup reel is on the second spool and has no float and max speed so you've to be careful lifting the reel so it doesn't fly up too fast. I have the locking tap half closed for the pickup reel to try and regulate the flow but it doesn't help the no float problem. You've to deadhead the spool to make the reel drop. It's a poor enough design by Claas/Gima to be honest. The Galaxy is the same. Only one valve has float and I don't think there's any flow control on that tractor at all. I do miss the Ford for baling. I'm just so used to it now.
On the wrapper is a friend of mine's 8210 with himself driving it. Saves me borrowing both of my father's tractors to go out to do some baling. Off in the distance you might be able to see another friend of mine's Massey 7618 on a double handler drawing the bales away. We were baling on peaty ground and it was going to rain the next day so the bales had to be cleared that day because we would have just made a mess the following day. So it's a good thing he could come and do that because I never had time to move the bales that day. I spent the evening trying to figure out why the diverter valve on the loader of the Claas stopped working so I could go stack the bales the next day 🙄. I got it fixed anyway.
I will start making videos where I talk in the videos this summer, I have started making a few workshop videos and they're not all bad I don't think. Some people will find them interesting I'd say. Also no Jf videos to come this year :( It's going to be all bales.....oh well....there's always next year. I'll explain about the Jf and things a bit more in future videos where I do actually talk, not just a big long scroll of a description :)
Alright that's it, bye 😛
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