Optional pick teeth on roto-balers

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   Anyone have any experience with the pick up teeth that bolt onto the pick up bar. Spent the day building a new pick up conveyer chain with these teeth and i was wondering if they work any better. Never really noticed a problem picking up hay.

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dr p Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1428	Post Options Post Reply Quote dr p Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Optional pick teeth on roto-balers Posted: 30 Nov 2025 at 2:37pm
	Anyone have any experience with the pick up teeth that bolt onto the pick up bar. Spent the day building a new pick up conveyer chain with these teeth and i was wondering if they work any better. Never really noticed a problem picking up hay.

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	If you have rock they are a big plus and they are good anyway.

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	To use them the covers on the triangle roller must be removed. A lot of short stem hay will fall back to the ground with those covers removed.
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wjohn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 19 Jan 2010 Location: KS Points: 2273	Post Options Post Reply Quote wjohn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Dec 2025 at 8:34pm
	dr p thank you for asking this. I have been interested in them ever since I noticed that a lot of the very last production balers I see for sale have those pickup teeth on them. Still need to get those belts on you sent me - I didn't end up attempting to bale straw this year since the wheat crop was pretty pitiful. You used some original AC teeth and clips you found? My older baler does not have the holes drilled in the conveyor slats but my converted #10 does have the holes. I presume they started adding them to all the slats at some point in production so that they could just be bolted on if a customer wanted them. I was hoping to add them someday but hadn't done any research on availability of something off the shelf that would work. I have lots of rocks here so they seemed like a no-brainer in my hay fields. It also seems like getting the pickup a couple inches off the ground might help avoid some issues, but it's interesting to hear that drawback mentioned, PaulB.
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dr p Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 24 Feb 2019 Location: new york Points: 1428	Post Options Post Reply Quote dr p Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 hours 33 minutes ago at 6:45pm
	Good to hear from another rotobaler enthusiast. Always next year to put those belts on. Think i am on year three of this rotobaler project. When i searched the vast wastelands of nos allis parts, i was only able to find two springs and a handful of mounting clips. However, Alex at a&w in Wisconsin had a source that was able to make 100 of them for me at what i thought was a reasonable price. My local machine shop was able to make the clips though i decided to increase the hole size to 5/16 from 1/4. Paul is right that you have to remove the guard over the triangular part but i have never seen the guard on any rotobaler. I wonder if i use the teeth, will it take some stress off the conveyor drive. If you use the slats and allow them to contact the ground, as the manual says, every once they get caught on rough ground and then the conveyor slip clutch kicks in. Sorry about your wheat. My oats were the worst i ever grew this year too. Had to buy a load of peanut shells to bed the cows this winter