Big Muddy rancher
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQPu4xMR7g
RA, you don't need No stinkin' tractor
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I'm in AWE!!! ...a team of horses...a baler that doesn't seem to ever miss, all kinds of neat stuff there!!! AWESOME...
That is quite the outfit! I can't even afford that set-up... I'm looking to trade in my M for a good scythe.... .Big Muddy rancher
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Ya that baler kind of amazed me with no misses. I never seemed to have that luck with a square baler. :lol: :lol:
It was pretty neat but i bet a guy would be tired at night standing beside that engine all day.
Don't really know why they were doing it that way/ They had a skid steer picker and a truck and trailer to haul them.
It was pretty neat but i bet a guy would be tired at night standing beside that engine all day.
Don't really know why they were doing it that way/ They had a skid steer picker and a truck and trailer to haul them.
Faster horses
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R A said:
I'm in AWE!!! ...a team of horses...a baler that doesn't seem to ever miss, all kinds of neat stuff there!!! AWESOME...
I think you were born 100 years too late!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :wink:Big Muddy rancher said:
I was wondering if the baler you were using missed in that type of set-up, if it would make a mess out of things as far as the accumulator working properly??? ...hay getting stuck in all the nooks and crannies and such.
The skid steer made me wonder too. Seemed to me those Amish have that skid steer and use it??? The Amish lady that runs that baler set-up is resting under a tree because she couldn't be filmed, so that part of the Amish tradition was being held up.
3 M L & C
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Dad has a new holland I think it's name is a 275 maybe. My grandpa bout it new in 1969. It has never been rained on. Who knows how many bales its made. Last time we used it we baled up about 1500 straw bales and once got the pressure set I think it only missed one bale. It's a very good machine, but only works with sical twine. We've tried plastic a couple times and it misses more than it ties with that stuff. Anyway no matter how you make them and what the bale is made of they still suck to pick them up!!
Faster horses said:R A said:
I'm in AWE!!! ...a team of horses...a baler that doesn't seem to ever miss, all kinds of neat stuff there!!! AWESOME...
I think you were born 100 years too late!
....I'm extremely fasinated by the old way of ranching and homesteading!!! It makes a lot of sense to me! I ran a scythe one day though... That night I couldn't lay down, sit or stand up because my back hurt so bad... . I imagine I used bad technique as well as not being used to it... Big Muddy rancher
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R A said:Faster horses said:R A said:
I'm in AWE!!! ...a team of horses...a baler that doesn't seem to ever miss, all kinds of neat stuff there!!! AWESOME...
I think you were born 100 years too late!
your just soft :!: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Big Muddy rancher said:R A said:Faster horses said:I think you were born 100 years too late!
your just soft :!: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can see the tv remote up on the table there, but I need someone to get it for me.... It's not my fault, I'm a victom of today's society.... . There's an old timer down the road a ways that I have only seen a couple times. He walks with his back completely horizontal with the ground.....I bet I can understand why....
on the knotter talk....my left knotter only missed a few bales this year, but my right one misses 2 in a row every 20 to 30.... . The knots my right knotter did tie were good as gold, so I was afraid to mess with it after what I went through last year... ...and just pitchforked all the broken bales into piles and forked it in the baler or hauled it to the house loose. I do need to adjust that knotter though.
. The knots my right knotter did tie were good as gold, so I was afraid to mess with it after what I went through last year... ...and just pitchforked all the broken bales into piles and forked it in the baler or hauled it to the house loose. I do need to adjust that knotter though.George said:
Will do! Thanks! I didn't have any knotter assemblies flipped up at all this year, where last year I had them flipped up every 3 bales and the whole shooting match off a few times.
I bet you're right. When it misses, it leaves a string that is about the length of two bales worth with loops on both ends. I should of checked the twine knives at the beginning of the year and didn't. I had major bill hook problems last year, but it never did this....mainly just stuck on the bill hooks every couple bales....so I might still be off on them a tad on that side.
It's crazy how little of an adjustment can have such an impact on them things. Even a tiny little tucker finger adjustment seems to make big changes.
I'll add too.....that I thought it was great when I got a new wiper arm because I broke one while shaping it and the new ones have easily removable twine knives on them. I was shaping a wiper arm in a vice before I knew how to do it while the assembly is flipped up. Anyway, I didn't check to see if the new wiper arm cleared the bale chamber....it didn't. Cracked the whole knotter assembly on the first bale after I thought I was good to go... . The new wiper arms don't work on my baler unless I grind some bale chamber away no matter how they are shaped it seems. I had a time last year... The new wiper arms are crazy expensive too, IMO, for what it is. I found some old knotters and used parts off of them.
. The new wiper arms don't work on my baler unless I grind some bale chamber away no matter how they are shaped it seems. I had a time last year... The new wiper arms are crazy expensive too, IMO, for what it is. I found some old knotters and used parts off of them.Hayguy
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90% of knotter problems can be traced back to the twine knives. just last week wifey started having knotter problems on one side, nothing obvious, but was missing the odd one.baler only has about 50 to 60 thousand through it checked the twine knife and sure enough had a dull spot,sharpened it up and hasn't missed since
Hayguy
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I take the blade off and use one of these to sharpen all of my knives/tools/etc. anything with a fine edge. bought it at Bass-Pro a few years ago and has turned out to be an excellent tool. ibelieive same company makes the Drill Doctor, haven't got one of those yet http://www.worksharptools.com/knife/sharpeners/knife-sharpener/work-sharp-knife-and-tool-sharpener.html
if you are using files i suggest using a Sthil chainsaw file, the smaller flat one used for fileing down the raker's only one iv'e found hard enough to cut the hard steel used in the blades
in a pinch a point file will also cut and is some what flexable to do it with non-removable blades with the knotter flipped up
if you are using files i suggest using a Sthil chainsaw file, the smaller flat one used for fileing down the raker's only one iv'e found hard enough to cut the hard steel used in the blades
in a pinch a point file will also cut and is some what flexable to do it with non-removable blades with the knotter flipped up
I have never seen a sharpener like that. Thanks! Thanks for the tips! Doesn't look like I'll be doing any second cuttings or custom second cuttings for my one neighbor, so I am done for the year. I may fork some big bale hay through it though and mess with it. I forked a good amount of hay through it this summer and it takes a lot of forked hay to get it to miss....I may not do that... Crazy how little of hay is in a pretty good size stack of loose hay when baled.
Crazy how little of hay is in a pretty good size stack of loose hay when baled.Big Muddy rancher
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Was just watching Rural heritage on RFD TV while I ate lunch. They had a couple of14t JD balers pulled by horses. One was converted to ground drive and the other was PTO off a ground drive cart.
If you pulled a baler with horses they could eat you mistakes. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
If you pulled a baler with horses they could eat you mistakes. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Faster horses
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Big Muddy rancher said:
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