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HELP! 303 Knotter Problem

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Topic: HELP! 303 Knotter Problem

Posted By: barnabas_12
Subject: HELP! 303 Knotter Problem
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2010 at 8:24am

I bought a 303 baler a few years back - it was stuck but had not done many bales. As I got things un-stuck, I forgot about the tucker fingers. During the first tie, it bent up the arm that holds the cam-follower. Getting that off is easy, but it always gave me trouble - and about once/year it would get bent again. Earlier this year I had to weld a new pin for the cam follower. Well, last week they crashed again, only this time the cam itself broke. A few questions:

1. Is it possible to find individual parts for this knotter, such as the CAM and the CAM-follower arm? Will the AGCO dealer be able to order, or perhaps someone on-line.

2. Will parts from other knotters work? If I bought a old junk NH or JD baler, will those parts likely interchange?

3. Is it possible to simply swap out the entire knotter from a JD or NH baler. I hate to do this because mine has so little wear on it otherwise. However, it will not tie without the tucker fingers in action.

Any help is appreciated.

Replies:

Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2010 at 11:53am

I think Dale Schaffer has the parts you need. He goes as Orangereborn,very nice and honest.I think they are same as NH knotters. HTH Tracy Martin

Posted By: DanNESD
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2010 at 9:12pm

New Holland knotters are the same