gcreekrch said:
I take it you have hooked it to your tractor and tried rolling it over?
Sometimes it takes a bit for the belts to "lose their memory" where they go around the rollers. Something also to check is belt length, they do stretch and might not be tight enough for the friction to do it's job.
It sounds wrong---but I was told belts actually get shorter over time. I bought a jd 535, belts looked good but I had a lot of trouble with them and had to resplice several. Then more trouble.
Duh! Lose over an inch with every splice. 8 belts, 2 different lengths on this machine. Pulled them out--2 at a time. No two the same length. Had factory specs for min, max length of each set. The long ones were just long enuf to make max length short belts. The short belts got maybe 16" spliced into them to become max length long belts. If you put in a little piece, you want to cut off enuf from belt so both splices aren't on roller at same time.
Caution! On this baler, you don't want to pull them all out on once or something big might hit you on the head!
As for chevrons, don't some old Vermeer and heston balers not have any to begin with?
Rubber on drive rollers on this baler getting really thin---was gonna try liquid nail but figured it'd build up crap---I like Denny's idea Way better--thanks Denny~~
This baler and at least the neighbor's red baler that burnt up has got 2 drive rollers---one drives from one side, then on the other side a chain hooks the other two together and drives the second. If you lose this chain, it'll maybe perplex you, as if you're real careful and hay is light, it'll still bale. That's how the neighbor lady lost hers, kept trying to make it bale and finally it got so hot it caught on fire. Had it out with chemical fire ext, but couldn't keep it out. I suggest you carry a water fire ext--