New Holland 477 Haybine

Hey everyone, im fairly new hear and im glad to be here!!

 

I have some issues going on with my 477 ive had it about 2 years now and i mow roughly a 9 to 10 acre field, nothing huge but enough for my four fat beef cows. well last yeari was mowing and all of a sudden the haybine quit turning everything so i got off and looked it over and noticed one of the roller chains had broke and binded up in all the sprockets. (long styory short here i grew up on a farm with my dad and learned everything i know from him, still have ALOT to learn and unfortunetly my best freind and great teacher (my dad) had past away last year due to colon cancer, and now my teacher is gone and im struggling to figure this out on my own) back to the problem dad got it all fixed for me last year and now this year 2 trips around the feild my wobble box broke off from the the haybine and ripped half the wall out with it, anywho got that all repaired and put back together got back down in the field a half of trip around the field i noticed the rollers were squeling like a pig, i shut it down got off and checked and the bottom roller sprocket had came completly off the roller shaft (same one that came off last year and binded everything up) SO i got it back up to the garage, got everything pulled off and looked over (thankfully i caught it before i did any real damage) all i needed was the half moon woodruff key. WELL after 3 tractor and machinery stores later i ended up having to go to Napa (an autoparts store) to finally find my part. Got back to the garagegot the key in put the sprocket back on timmed the rollers and all that good jazz tightened down the 2 set screws on the sprocket fired the tractor up tested it out and everything ran like a top. I was like YESSSSS so got her down in the field and mowing and its running great got one trip around the field and to the end well i stopped the haybine to back up and get linned up for the next row and was ehhhhhhh since i got it shut down ill just check it for the hell of it and low and behold the the sprocket was loose as a goose again, so i got my wrenchs out to tighten the set screws again and i had the one tight and then you fell the wrench just go loose and you all know that feeling when you strip a bolt out i got pissed threw my wrenchs in the tool box and took the haybine to the barn and parked and decided to bale what i had down Havnt even looke at it to see what stripped out yet. But my question is has anyone had this problem and whats the fix for it because obviously the set screws arnt holding the sprocket... at all.....?

 

SO besides that i wantto finish the rest of my great story cause you all will get a kick out of it and franklly i gotta laugh about it or ill prolly cry lmfao so i get the hay dried enough to bale was going good, well i have a new holland 66 baler if you havnt heard of it look it up... its OLD but it works ya know for the small field i do its great, yeah well the last 2 years ive had this baler its worked flawless no problems at all, now this year i start it up to bale my 4 windrows i got knocked down got one bale out the next bale broke string knotted up in the twine box, so shut the baler down fix the knot get it straigthened out got to fire it back up the pto shaft was spinning but nuttin else on the baler would go NOTHING turns outwear the pto shaft connects to the big wheel on the front of the baler has 2 spring loaded pins that enguage into the wheel when running and when stopped the springs allow the pins to move back as the baler winds down, turns out one pin was completely froze up not even engaging at all and the one pin that DID work decided to freeze up and get stuck inside, so now im trying to free them up to get my baler working again cause a new part is like 140ish bucks and frankly i aint got that atm . SO now im out a haybine and a baler atm still with hay on the ground. Isnt this just fantastic? LOL gotta laugh 

 

So whats all your thought on all this? Thanks ahead of time

New Holland 477 Haybine