Service Manual For Hesston 1091 Haybine
I just bought a Hesston 1091 haybine at an auction. It's complete and looks in good shape. However, I have never used a haybine.
I had a baler and rake, which I have used, but I always had someone else mow my field. Well, I hooked up the PTO shaft to my Farmall Super M tractor today. The rollers went around, but neither the blades or the roller drum rake (what is the correct word for that), will turn. I took off the side shield and quickly found that the two belts are just slipping on the top pulley. They are reasonably tight and the idler is engaged. Why it's not turning is beyond me. I quickly turned off the PTO so the belts were not destroyed.
I can not turn that lower flywheel by hand, although I am fighting against the belts and PTO (which I disconnected from the tractor). I'm wondering if the blades are seized up, although they dont appear to be. I poured oil on all of them and will let them sit overnight with the oil. Now, I'm wondering if the hydraulic cylinder needs to be connected before the blades will move. (The hose is too short, I'll buy an extension tomorrow).
However, having that belt slippage does not seem normal. Can anyone offer some advice? Also, I just tried to get a manual downloaded. All I'm finding are these scam websites that not only want my email address, but want a credit card number, which they claim they will not charge anything to. (Free download they claim). Seems that these days the web has become nothing but a giant scam.
Why do they need my credit card for something free??? Anyone know if there is a place that still has the manual for this haybine really for free? PDF format or anything else. quote='Don-Wi'(quoted from post at 09:12:00 09/05/13) Check the skid shoes underneath. Either they're missing, or they need to be adjusted down to increase the length of stubble. Donovan from Wisconsin/quote Thanks Donovan The skid shoes are not missing, I was just under there.
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What is the trick to adjust them? The other thing I found, is that those big springs under there are not adjusted evenly. The one on the left (my left standing behind the haybine), is 3 inches from the top. The one on the right is around 7 inches.
In fact, that one is adjusted so far down, that I can not get a wrench down in there, and I was considering removing the cotter key, and taking out the pin on the low end of the spring, then raising the spring so I can loosen the lock nut and get the adjusting bolt to turn. I held off on doing this, because I wonder how much that spring will kick back, when I'm under the machine.
But there dont seem to be much pressure on it, since the coild are nearly touching each other, while the left one is extended. My thought was to put a jack under that lower bar before I remove the pin, but that still seems dangerous. On the other hand, maybe all I need to do is adjust those skid shoes, like you said, and dont need to mess with the springs.
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I'll be glad when my ordered manuals arrive, so I'm not blindly doing this stuff. Either way, should those springs be adjusted so unevenly? That dont appear to be right?????? Thanks to all! quote='dmiler'(quoted from post at 18:37:04 08/22/13) I have one, really like it. I got my manual off of e-bay for about 10-15$ if I remember right./quote Thanks to all who replied.
I did get it going, the knives on the sickle were siezed up. Lots of oil and loosening the hold downs and cleaning them fixed that problem. The rake drum did not turn due to the chain drive gear having the nubs broke off the bottom of it, which serve as the 'key'. I bought a replacement gear. It now works, but it tends to dig into the ground. It's hard to raise it an inch using the hydraulics, so it's either digging in and scalping the hayfield, or I raise it too much and it misses half the hay.
I did find that if I only cut while going downhill, that helps, but that wastes a lot of time and gas having to lift it and go back to the top of the hill. The local dealer told me to adjust those huge springs underneath. I found a 1-1/8 inch bolt for each one. Lots of PB blaster got one of them loose, but not the other one yet.
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The problem is that once I get them both loose, I have no clue how to adjust it. He told me that there should be about 75lbs of down pressure, but how do I know how much down pressure there is?
Can anyone help with this? I ordered a manual from the dealer, but it will take about 2 weeks to get it. Ebay did not have one for this model. I'm hoping to be able to finish my hay before 2 weeks.
I'll just have to fight with the hydraulics to do my best to keep it slightly above the ground, and only cut going downhill, till I can find out how to adjust it properly. Thanks again! Unbolt the knife head from the swing arm, and see if the lower pulley will turn. If it still won't, then you will have to tear it down further to see if the bearings in that shaft are seized, or if just the swing arm is stuck. It is also possible that the bearing on the crank in the center of the swing arm is the problem.
I personally vote for the knife being stuck. If it is the quickest way to free it is to loosen up a bunch of the guards until you can turn the machine over by hand, then pull the knife all the way out, replace sections as needed, clean it up lube it and re-install. The reel not turning is a separate issue. The drive for that is on the opposite end of the machine, under a big shield. The chain could be off, or the tiny sprocket could have stripped the key that drives it, (on the end of the shaft, not the side). The key could be sheared or missing in the hub of the big sprocket on the reel itself, or the reel could be jammed and the clutch slipping. The slip clutch itself could have given out, although usually they rust up solid, but somebody could have over oiled everything and it is slipping.
I will check back on you sometime late tonight, right now I have to go haul hay before the the T- storms the promise for this afternoon get here.