Store your baler inside. Clean it out before storage. Oil it with diesel fuel and 30 weight mix. A pump sprayer works well. A leaf blower works great for cleaning. Any amount of hay left in the baler draws moisture. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance!!!!
That’s what I’ll be doing, I just bought it and brought it that day, it sat outside with hay in it for a couple years before I bought it,I got it working good now I got a couple hundred bales through it so far, I’ll be posting a haying video soon
Having some square bales around is really handy. We only make the big rounds, which are too much for the barn, so we made a hand baler to make a few small squares for around the yard and barn. Works like a darn until the person making them gets tired. 😂 Cheers to a great haying season.
I'm glad I found your video! I'm having the same problem. I thought it was a shear pin at first. But I can't find one. So im guessing I'm having the same problem you did!
I guess these balers are old with the Massey Ferguson name on them. As they dropped the Harris name and made it just Massey Ferguson in 1958 . I brought up on line the second generation Massey Harris square baler (the all new 703 in 1957) sold in 58. My dad bought a #3 in the 60's was nice having a shiny new red Massey Ferguson baler. We didn't have a thrower so it didn't matter if it missed a a few bales per 10 acres , usually changing balls of twine or if to much dust was on the knotter. I was trying to think of what he paid for it. I think it was close to 3 grand in 1965 give or take a year or two
I have a MF 10 too. I had the same thing in 1992 when I bought it. The chamber was black-burnt, how I don't know, the shear bolts shouldn't of allowed that. Anyways, you have to loosen the chamber adjustment slide bolts , on the outside of the chamber, the locking nut and adjustment bolt, then the plunger should loosen enough to pull it out of the chamber. Mine was bent out of square, so I used a framing square to square -up the plunger, beating it into square with a sledge. It has worked well to now, I baled oat hay and alfalfa. You can still get parts from MF unlike NH or Freeman etc. It was a 1969 manufacture.
Hello I have a international 445D runs ok when you iron out the small problems. Having hay in chamber is not good for them. It's very caustic when it gets wet. I use galmat it's water based rust converter. I charge up the baler before baling in the field Then there is no need to pick up hay.
I have a MF model 10 too. When I got it drug outta the bushes , it took me 4 days to free up the plunger head . It was totally fused with rust . I used an air chisel . Not surprising when you consider how old these balers are . They were built in 1950 . I,m only 3 years older than my baler . 😂
@@kirksawler1199 Mine sat for about ,,,I,m guessing a good 10 years . I got a John Deere #8 sickle bar mower , an International side delivery rake , and the MF 10 for a grand total of $750.
Nice, I have an international side delivery rake it was given to me, I bought an international 990 haybine in January for $500 I paid $1000 for the baler
Yeah the guy I bought it from didn’t use use it the year before and it sat with hay in the chamber, I took the hay out when I got done with it and didn’t have an issue at all this year
Would be easier to free up the plunger if is disconnected from the drive crank - that is keywayed to the gearbox driveshaft, hence your difficulties. Beating up on the whole mechanism with a lump of tree branch isn't doing it any favours whatsoever. If removing the plunger from the rear, best to remember and remove those side retainers first - they have the appearance of a cheese grater and are installed to prevent springback of the hay wedge, after it has been compressed by the ram stroke.
Store your baler inside. Clean it out before storage. Oil it with diesel fuel and 30 weight mix. A pump sprayer works well. A leaf blower works great for cleaning. Any amount of hay left in the baler draws moisture. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance!!!!
That’s what I’ll be doing, I just bought it and brought it that day, it sat outside with hay in it for a couple years before I bought it,I got it working good now I got a couple hundred bales through it so far, I’ll be posting a haying video soon
Having some square bales around is really handy. We only make the big rounds, which are too much for the barn, so we made a hand baler to make a few small squares for around the yard and barn.
Works like a darn until the person making them gets tired. 😂
Cheers to a great haying season.
Man yeah!! Progress!! You got it freed up and moving!! Looking good my friend!! Look fwd to seeing more of this as the season gets closer!!
I plan on YouTubing it
@@kirksawler1199 😁👍
I'm glad I found your video! I'm having the same problem. I thought it was a shear pin at first. But I can't find one. So im guessing I'm having the same problem you did!
I guess these balers are old with the Massey Ferguson name on them. As they dropped the Harris name and made it just Massey Ferguson
in 1958 . I brought up on line the second generation Massey Harris square baler (the all new 703 in 1957) sold in 58. My dad bought a
#3 in the 60's was nice having a shiny new red Massey Ferguson baler. We didn't have a thrower so it didn't matter if it missed a a few bales per 10 acres , usually changing balls of twine or if to much dust was on the knotter. I was trying to think of what he paid for it.
I think it was close to 3 grand in 1965 give or take a year or two
I have a MF 10 too. I had the same thing in 1992 when I bought it. The chamber was black-burnt, how I don't know, the shear bolts shouldn't of allowed that. Anyways, you have to loosen the chamber adjustment slide bolts , on the outside of the chamber, the locking nut and adjustment bolt, then the plunger should loosen enough to pull it out of the chamber. Mine was bent out of square, so I used a framing square to square -up the plunger, beating it into square with a sledge. It has worked well to now, I baled oat hay and alfalfa. You can still get parts from MF unlike NH or Freeman etc. It was a 1969 manufacture.
Hello I have a international 445D runs ok when you iron out the small problems. Having hay in chamber is not good for them. It's very caustic when it gets wet. I use galmat it's water based rust converter. I charge up the baler before baling in the field
Then there is no need to pick up hay.
I have a MF model 10 too. When I got it drug outta the bushes , it took me 4 days to free up the plunger head . It was totally fused with rust . I used an air chisel . Not surprising when you consider how old these balers are . They were built in 1950 . I,m only 3 years older than my baler . 😂
Mine wasn’t in bushes but it sat with hay in the chamber outside not covered for a couple years before I bought it.
@@kirksawler1199 Mine sat for about ,,,I,m guessing a good 10 years . I got a John Deere #8 sickle bar mower , an International side delivery rake , and the MF 10 for a grand total of $750.
Nice, I have an international side delivery rake it was given to me, I bought an international 990 haybine in January for $500 I paid $1000 for the baler
My tractor is a 1956 Ford 860
Looks like a nice baler be a nice unit for ya
I think so, I got a parts baler with it to
@@kirksawler1199 I always like my grandpas Massey 124 but she just needs a knitted tune up and if we could get new parts for it would be nice
This is what happens when bales are left in the bale chamber over winter , its called rust jacking .
Yeah the guy I bought it from didn’t use use it the year before and it sat with hay in the chamber, I took the hay out when I got done with it and didn’t have an issue at all this year
Your a big fella I definitely don’t want to get on your bad side especially knowing you free’d up the plunger with pretty amount of ease
I’m not that big
@@kirksawler1199 LOL but big enough that I still don’t want to be on your bad side LOL
You never will be
Would be easier to free up the plunger if is disconnected from the drive crank - that is keywayed to the gearbox driveshaft, hence your difficulties. Beating up on the whole mechanism with a lump of tree branch isn't doing it any favours whatsoever.
If removing the plunger from the rear, best to remember and remove those side retainers first - they have the appearance of a cheese grater and are installed to prevent springback of the hay wedge, after it has been compressed by the ram stroke.
Thanks
Hey buddy ☺️
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