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[jakethesnake]

Irrigation broke down in here somewhere

 

[jakethesnake]

Found him.

 

[jakethesnake]

Ants. Little fuggers. We going again

 

[Steve]

View attachment 345050 Ants. Little fuggers. We going again

I had a car a few years ago that ants had crawled into the pcm relay and had all sorts of weird stuff go on.

Glad it was an easy fix!

 

[jakethesnake]

And that ones stuck. Cause why not.

 

[jakethesnake]

I got it out. Dig around it and carried 4 cinder blocks out there. Kinda hot lol. Anyway. Things are rolling again

 

[jakethesnake]

Oh and I’m home. Been a day.

 

[Lnk]

Oh and I’m home. Been a day.

I am glad I don't have to water the corn around here, of course those thing probably can't climb hills either.

 

[JimBear]

They released the CRP ground around here Aug. 1 so my brother bought back about 60-70 acres. We buzzed it off a couple days ago, then got about .20” of rain yesterday & started rolling it up today. I knocked out 104 bales before I caught a whiff off something hot & he saw a bit of smoke as he was raking & flagged me down. A bearing in the top roller chit the bed so I headed to the house to hose things down, I made it about 50 yards when the entire right side of the tractor got coated in hydraulic oil. A fitting that goes directly into the pump busted, so she is still parked in the field leaking oil & cooling down in the sun & wind.

I was running a 4440 & JD baler
My brother finished up raking & was heading to get the 7410 & Super M to finish baling.
He likes the Deere balers, he says they make a denser bale.

 

[jakethesnake]

I don’t hate the green balers. I’ve got a new Holland because that’s what I found at the time. I imagine when I shop balers again it’ll be whatever’s the best deal. I think they’re all within reason of one another.
I’d probably ask one of you hay fellas what’s hot and what’s not

 

[JimBear]

I don’t hate the green balers. I’ve got a new Holland because that’s what I found at the time. I imagine when I shop balers again it’ll be whatever’s the best deal. I think they’re all within reason of one another.
I’d probably ask one of you hay fellas what’s hot and what’s not

My neighbor bought a Kubota large round baler, I don’t talk to him much but judging by appearances, either it’s a POS or he is just an idiot about hay prep & baling.
It’s a 50-50 toss up.
Every time I go by & he has been baling it’s sitting there with the gate up a big wad of chit inside it.

My Dad & brother had kicked out well over 100k bales in Vermeer’s. But recently my brother went back to a Deere after having one a few years ago.

 

[Lnk]

My neighbor bought a Kubota large round baler, I don’t talk to him much but judging by appearances, either it’s a POS or he is just an idiot about hay prep & baling; it’s a 50-50 toss up.

My Dad & brother had kicked out well over 100k bales in Vermeer’s. But recently my brother went back to a Deere after having one a few years ago.

100k round bales? Wow! That is a lot of hay. Sorry, just a small hobby farmer not being able to wrap my head around that.

 

[JimBear]

That’s over several years, 75% of people have their own balers now so the custom baling business is slowed down considerably in the last 10 - 15 years.

Dad has been custom baling for 35 years or more & ran the neighbors tractor & baler for several years prior to buying both from the neighbor.
My brother just quit custom baling last year, he had been doing it since he graduated high school so about 18 years.

It wasn’t unusual for them to bale 5k each in a summer. A lot of Dads were twine tied before net wrap was in use or popular.

 

[Lnk]

That’s over several years, 75% of people have their own balers now so the custom baling business is slowed down considerably in the last 10 - 15 years.

Dad has been custom baling for 35 years or more & ran the neighbors tractor & baler for several years prior to buying both from the neighbor.
My brother just quit custom baling last year, he had been doing it since he graduated high school so about 18 years.

It wasn’t unusual for them to bale 5k each in a summer. A lot of Dads were twine tied before net wrap was in use or popular.

I bale around 300-350 squares/ year for my own use. Divided into 100k, is about 285 years. Not going to make it. Lol

 

[hoskvarna]

They released the CRP ground around here Aug. 1 so my brother bought back about 60-70 acres. We buzzed it off a couple days ago, then got about .20” of rain yesterday & started rolling it up today. I knocked out 104 bales before I caught a whiff off something hot & he saw a bit of smoke as he was raking & flagged me down. A bearing in the top roller chit the bed so I headed to the house to hose things down, I made it about 50 yards when the entire right side of the tractor got coated in hydraulic oil. A fitting that goes directly into the pump busted, so she is still parked in the field leaking oil & cooling down in the sun & wind.

I was running a 4440 & JD baler
My brother finished up raking & was heading to get the 7410 & Super M to finish baling.
He likes the Deere balers, he says they make a denser bale.

They haven’t released our county yet [emoji2959]


Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[crowslayer17]

They released the CRP ground around here Aug. 1 so my brother bought back about 60-70 acres. We buzzed it off a couple days ago, then got about .20” of rain yesterday & started rolling it up today. I knocked out 104 bales before I caught a whiff off something hot & he saw a bit of smoke as he was raking & flagged me down. A bearing in the top roller chit the bed so I headed to the house to hose things down, I made it about 50 yards when the entire right side of the tractor got coated in hydraulic oil. A fitting that goes directly into the pump busted, so she is still parked in the field leaking oil & cooling down in the sun & wind.

I was running a 4440 & JD baler
My brother finished up raking & was heading to get the 7410 & Super M to finish baling.
He likes the Deere balers, he says they make a denser bale.

Sounds like you caught that bearing just in time. That happened to a friend but he had a leak on his gate cylinder and the bearingstartedthe bale on fire and it lit up the hydraulic fluid. He said he just had enough extinguisher to put out the fire but was seconds away from trying to unhook it.

 

[JimBear]

Sounds like you caught that bearing just in time. That happened to a friend but he had a leak on his gate cylinder and the bearingstartedthe bale on fire and it lit up the hydraulic fluid. He said he just had enough extinguisher to put out the fire but was seconds away from trying to unhook it.

Dad has burnt up 3 balers, one of the neighbors & two of his own. Two of them were while baling oats.

 

[JimBear]

They haven’t released our county yet [emoji2959]


Sent from Hoskey Hills

They released NW MO on the 15th of July or that what someone told me.

I think the stuff my brother bought back ranged from $32 - $55 acre depending on the contracts.

 

[jakethesnake]

 

[jakethesnake]

Mowed the pasture off. Got a little splash of rain last night. Enough to take the time to change irrigation generators oil. Did the komatsu too. She’s old only on an ive seen with a komatsu Only has 800 hours on it