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Where does it look like we aren't getting grease to? The areas I point about wear don't get lubrication. If you did, chaff would stick to it and cause all kinds of issues.

Then you're good. What issues are you having?

Could be for someone.

The knife arm? I was adjust it to rub on the billhook.

I assume you have to be talking about the red discbine? It's not a bushhog, also it's custom faded red haha

Haha I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, I appreciate it if not. If you're being sarcastic I don't glorify farmers, I think we all play our part. Not even sure I qualify as a farmer since I don't raise grains. Either way thanks for the comment

Thanks. Absolutely a complete loss if it's baled too high moisture.

Right on!

They eat green grass when it grows. However winter time things don't grow they go dormant so this is baled while it grows to get livestock through the winter months.

White 2-135

I struggle to make sense of your comment. But I will say everyone has their way of doing things. Crimper work. I can lay it out flat. The issue is the ground is wet. I windrow so the sun can dry it out before spreading with the tedder. This also keeps me from driving on the hay which it won't dry where I have driven on it and smashed it in the damp soil. Where are you located?

Ok. Say you’ve never run a tractor without saying you’ve never run a tractor. Or… say you work for OSHA without saying you’re a commie. Men have to work.

Don’t have to shut the tractor off, but shutting the pto off might be a good idea. I’ve seen pto’s come off and they will get thrown all over if there isn’t a guard

I knew this comment would come which is why I addressed it in the video. I was no where near the pto shaft or exposed moving shafts. As for turning off the tractor. You never just turn off something when running it under load without cooling off some. Tha KS for the comment though.

It's a White 2-135 on the discbine. I bale with an Oliver 1650 diesel

Thanks. I like the good Ole stuff

When you say bale cart you're talking about one of those baskets that you dump at the barn? Or an accumulator?

About 36"

Thanks!

Glad you liked it. It is a lot of extra time and effort. I do enjoy it but it's tough to do it when it seems like no one watches sometimes. I hope to get a little better with my editing set up I'm going to start using before long.

I use buffered propionic acid, I get mine from suchomski. It's an Agco product but about any buffered propionic acid will be the same.

@@thebalerman I have been thinking of using Silo Guard as it isn't corrosive.

My dad uses the silo king dry with a gandy box. I have thought about going to that. But I believe the acid works better to preserve but for borderline I think the dry is good and seems like it's good to put on everything. I don't like the corrosivness of the acid. I have really noticed much affect on the baler but where it drips on concrete it will make it break up and flake.

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@@thebalerman Thank you for the reply and explanation, I loved it as soon as I saw it, many thanks for the url, link. 👍

No problem happy to help!

You buying? I've been looking at rakes. But I can't complain about this one. It does good for what it is and I won't find one for less money.

A bar rake would do better we use a rotary rake to wide rows for your baler leave to much of your were closer I may

Yes I know. Just once you use a double wheel rake there is just no going back to spending all day raking. I'm by myself and can afford to spend all day raking then have no time to bale. Double rotary is way out of my price range. Been looking for a double hitch and a couple bar rakes. Or possibly one like my dad's but haven't found one close enough for the right price.

I will try to make a video on it. I have quoted a few to build also. It may be a bit before I get a chance to. Check back in from time to time

I run a 2-135 on my discbine.

Awesome! Thanks for watching

Glad you enjoy them. Hopefully theybwill be helpfull to you.

If you want to supply a 9' disc mower I'm willing to do a side by side test and see which method dries better and faster. Put your money where your mouth is.

What?

That's what I was thinking but I wasn't gonna say anything

Thanks sis

Yes we should. I wear ear protection when I'm working in the shop with loud stuff. But I always for get when I'm on the tractor because I'm bouncing between jobs and everything and forger and then I don't make time to get ear plugs. I'm going to do better though because I do think it's important to preserve our hearing when we can. thanks

Yes if it is something designed for grease. If not the lathering grease on the outside of a joint doesn't do any good. Oil would have been a better lubricant. But I wd handy and it did the job.

Honestly if I were guessing it would be a combination of lack of understanding and insufficient time in the day. Farmers have a lot to do and the primary goal is to grow a crop or raise livestock. All the equipment is in support of the main goal. Obviously in a perfect world you would do all the preventative maintenance in the off season and never break down or have any issues while you're running. Im a big believer in preventative maintence and we do decent at preventative stuff but there will always be things that fail that you can't change preventatively. Of course grease and oil changes and everything is the easy standard stuff. But a lot of farmers aren't equipped to take on real in depth and technical repairs. Large farmers will generally have a dealer do that type of work. Small farmers simply can't afford to pay someone else to do a lot of that work. They do what the can and fix the rest as they go. I don't have a really good answer for you. But I would assume that you did the preventative maintenance and repairs on the equipment at the ranch you worked at since you saw the issues. If you're talking about the issues I was working on in this video specifically this was a preventative repair. That's the whole reason we brought the 2nd stacker over to try before we really get into the hay full swing. It is a new addition my dad bought at an auction. And in the end it doesn't matter how perfect your preventative maintenance is, if you are running equipment you will have break downs.

I don’t know how it is in the area on the ranches that you have worked at, but I have seen a lot of farmers who have older aging equipment that have been passed down to generation after generation and well passed the equipment prime regardless of maintenance. Farming equipment is used hard, and while yes, maintenance can help it last it gets to a point of no return. A lot of the equipment that is used is still working because of the ranchers or farmers know how to keep it running and it may not be necessarily that they got it brand new farming equipment is excessively expensive given the circumstance of how reliant upon farmers we are and unless you are a Megalithic farm that owns thousands of acres you make very little profit in order to buy new equipment. Let alone maintain your equipment properly the way it should be on my small farm. We have a few hundred acres and the equipment that we use dates back 40+ years a couple of tractors are from the 40s and they are still running. They are rusty but they run like a top And I would love to upgrade them, but I am not willing to pay the $30,000 plus price tag to do so. I’m sure there are farmers and ranchers out there who just flat out don’t maintain anything but for the most part small farms get by with what they have, and also they work full-time day jobs on top of doing the farming on their land.

@haroldblackwell3212 you're correct. What I feel is pretty late model equipment is from the 80's. Which is now 40 yrs old. My baling tractor is a 67 year model. My white is a 78 year model. I'm happy to run them because to replace with anything newer than 20 yrs old is between $50k-$100k. I can't justify that.

It is a 6150 Deutz. About 50hp.

@@thebalerman thank you for getting back with that information

No problem

Thanks for watching. I have driven trucks and hauled equipment and everything. I always try to tie things down the correct way. I sure don't want to restack and we don't want to cause issues on the road either.

With the rain we’ve been having, we’d be baling wet hay, without a Tedder.

I'd be more than happy to if you want to make an agreement to pay me for any spoiled hay I have.

When you say friction disc are you talking about the piece that moves the trip arm up as the hay moves through the chamber? It sounds like you are just barely catching th pawl that disengages the knotter mechanism. There are a few adjustments. One on them is the slotted holes that mount the star metering wheel and shaft, this adjusts the distance from the end of the trip arm to the pawl. There is also a piece that slides up and down and is what actually makes contact with the pawl. You need to adjust these items so when the arm trips I will allow the pawl past the stop and engage the knotter. But also contact the pawl enough to stop the knotter and not slip past anywhere else in the travel of the trip arm besides the trip point. Let me know how things go and if you're able to get it taken care of.