Technical Help
Premature wire breakage due to surface scoring during wire feeding to the tier.
High-strength, black-annealed automatic baling wire for use with automatic tiers can break prematurely due to surface scoring while feeding to the tier. With 50 lb or 100 lb. coils in boxes, and 1,500 lb. coils on carriers, the wire has to be fed over a number of pulleys and through a number of steel pipes before it reaches the tier.
From experience, we have noticed that both the pipes and pulleys wear over a period of time and these wear grooves can cause scoring or scratching of the baling wire. (In extreme cases the wire will even "hang up" in these grooves and break before it gets to the tier.)
Surface scoring of the wire weakens the wire and causes premature wire breakage either during tying or afterwards as the bale expands.
As a service to our customers, the Coastal Wire Company provides round steel guide tubes with tungsten carbide inserts which can be welded to the mild steel pipes thriough which the wire normally feeds. The tunstens carbide guide tubes are sold for $5.50 each, which is at our cost. If you feel that these tubes would be of benefit to your wire feeding process, please call us and we will be happy to ship them out of our stock.
