Hay equipment and Haying 2024
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Raked, baled, and hauled a small field with light hay on it. Only got 50 bales but its better than nothing. I can remember getting around 120 bales off this field in the past. I did have a problem with the bale hauler. A set screw is slipping on a shaft and I am unable to get it tight enough to hold It in place. Should be an easy fix with a new set screw that isn't stripped out. The pic is the empty field, just how I like to see them.
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I don't want to jinks it but the 10 day forecast is all sun. Hope it holds. If I can get 2 full weeks I may be able to finish it all barring any breakdowns.
Should have kept my mouth shut. A pin broke off on the shift quadrant on the Case IH 485. I don't think it will be hard to fix but I will know more when I pull the covers off for access. Then while baling the hay pickup quit turning. Appears to be the roller bearing that runs on the cam to tilt the tines broke off one bar. This is not the first time this has happened. This is also not hard to fix just takes time. I'm going to pull the pickup off the baler after I eat dinner and see how far I can get with it. Need to see if we have another bar or if I need to fix the broke one.
I had the pickup quit turning on my Super 66 one time. Ends wore through. Welding shop said bring them all in and we will fix then or you will be broke down again tomorrow. Built them all up with hard brass and they were still going strong several thousand bales later.
Pulled the broken bar out and I found a usable spare bar. Had to straighten the end a little and then swapped the old bearing from the broken end onto this bar. Somewhere around here we have a bucket of used tines that I need to find to replace a broken one. Hopefully I will be baling this afternoon.
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Sure brings back memories cjet. The last time we put up squares was around 1979 with a J.D. 336 baler behind the old JD R. Made 80lb. perfect bales to pick up with the New Holland bale picker. 13,000 bales that year that we fed by hand to over 80 cows, at least 40 bales a day, all winter long. My back aches to think about it now, LOL. Before we bought the N.H. picker we hand stooked bales on a drag behind the baler, me driving the tractor baling and My Olde Deere riding on the drag and stooking. Then we'd load the stooks on the four ton grain truck with extentions to the box, 15 stooks to a load if they stacked right, haul them to the yard and hand build the hay stack as high as M.O.D. could throw them. I was on the stack carrying and building the pile until he couldn't throw them any higher. Then we'd use the bale elevator, he'd put the bales on and I'd continue carrying and building until the stack was finished. Sometimes getting down off the high stack got interesting! LOL. Getting the bale picker was the second smartest thing we did for haying. When we dumped it the bale stack was automatically built. The smartest thing was changing the whole procedure and switching to big round bales and a self dumping bale hauler. All we had to do then was build the stack with the loader and the J.D. 4040 that I still have now, 45 years later.
I don't think they are the same but thanks for the offer.
My brother helped me get the pickup installed. Finished baling the field I was in. Got a total of 150 bales. Now...... who's going to pick them up and put them in the barn????? May haul a load or 2 this evening after it cools a little. I'm going to get the Case IH 485 down to the shop and start digging into that.
Pulled the Case IH 485 apart. Decided to remove the shifters to get this quadrant out so I can weld the pin back in. This is a rivet head pin that is pressed in and spot welded from the factory. It must have started to get loose in the hole and finally broke the pin out of the flat head. I'll weld it back tomorrow and see if I can get it all put together.
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At least it wasn't an internal problem like a shift fork.
Got that right.