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| You are the 2nd guy now that has posted something along these lines. Varying the tractor/pto RPM's will do nothing to vary the amount of hay in each stroke & strokes/bale - your ground speed changes that.
Let's say you have a consistent windrow and have picked a gear to bale in. Revving the tractor up or down to vary the PTO speed will have absolutely no effect on strokes/bale. Idle the tractor down a bit to slow the PTO, and your ground speed will also drop - the amount of hay/stroke will stay the same.
Change gears and THAT will change the strokes/bale.
Having said that, I disagree with you to a point about the more strokes/bale = tighter and heavier bale. It has been our experience that going too slow will make a deformed bale due to insufficient chamber loading. Going too fast will also make a poor bale, but usually not as bad as too slow.
Just so we are comparing apples to apples, I'm talking about small square balers, not big squares - I have no experience with operating bid squares at all. Perhaps they are different. We also have always had hyd. tensioning on our NH balers - which will compensate a bit for changing conditions & feed rates. | |
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