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- 348 square baler
348Small Square Baler
- Adjustable hay compressor
- Hydraulic bale tension available
- Large windrow capacity
- Automatic lockout
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The pickup teeth and narrow, flanged strippers extend to the flare on both sides of the pickup. This enables full, usable pickup width for feeding wide windrows.
Closely-spaced pickup teeth gather all of the hay in wide, heavy windrows.
Narrow-channel strippers positioned closely together help preserve leaves and short material to add more quality to the bale.
The pickup is 188-cm (74-in.) wide on flare and offset 25.4 cm (10 in.) to the right of the bale case.
The adjustable hay compressor mounts to and floats with the pickup and helps to maintain the same relationship to the pickup teeth at all operating heights.
The hay compressor also controls hay for continuous positive delivery to the auger.
The hay compressor is adjustable to nine positions to maintain positive control of hay in either large and heavy or light and fluffy windrows.
It can easily be removed with two spring pins for access to the auger or feed opening.
The deep-flighted auger continuously moves hay away from the pickup to the pre-compression chamber:
Knotters driven by shaft and gears provide a positive drive for dependable and accurate functioning.
The timing of knotters and needles is easy:
The hydraulic bale tension permits easy adjustment of bale density to meet crop variations and desired bale weight:
Hay is uniformly distributed into the bale case, which produces easy-to-handle bales and bales that stack well.
Feeder forks can be adjusted to five positions to match the feeding requirement to the hay conditions.
Forks are spring loaded for protection and are timed independently of knotters.
Full-width feeding pickup
Baler |
Number of teeth |
328 |
104 |
338 |
156 |
348 |
156 |
- The full width of the pickup can be utilized without the tractor tires operating on the windrow.
Adjustable hay compressor
Deep-flighted auger feeding
- Adds to the overall capacity
- Produces higher-quality hay
- Allows minimal crop contact with pickup teeth, which minimizes leaf loss
Accurate knotters
- Remove one bolt and match the gears
- Timing slot enables easy positioning of the plunger
- Eliminates twine finger
- Reduces the chance of twine damage
- Notch controls the twine position over the billhook for improved knotter function
- Ball-joint-style pull links ensure accurate adjustment
Hydraulic bale tension available
- Hydraulic cylinders replace springs that would typically control the density of the bale
- Exerts constant and uniform pressure on each bale
- Easy to use
- One knob controls the tension applied to the bale
- By increasing the tension, the bale weight also increases
Uniform bales
Quiet, dependable operation
The plungerhead runs on three precision roller bearings located in the high-load area:
- Provides quiet operation
- Minimum wear
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Product features are based on published information at the time of publication. Product features are subject to change without notice. Contact your local John Deere dealer for more information.