Few pics of haying today!

JayinNY · Jul 27, 2013

Well another bad day. Started baling the hay I cut on Thursday, and 1 pass around the field the thrower arm on the baler broke, I see it was welded before, so must have been fatigued. I baled dropped them on the ground and my wife drove my rack truck so I could pick up the baled and dump them in the barn. I gotta bring the baler home and see if I can weld it back together, or get new arms!

Anonymous-0 · Jul 27, 2013

somebody's gonna sleep hard tonight, as long as you're not dreaming of welding all night - lol

JayinNY · Jul 27, 2013

Hey kornfused, knowing I got the hay in and throwing them on the truck all afternoon will make me sleep like a baby! .... Lol

Northvale - PA · Jul 27, 2013

check the coil spring inside the hydtaulic ram on that kicker. When the spring breaks indside, the arms hammer themselves apart like that.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 27, 2013

if you had a ford baler to go with the ford tractor you would be in good shape! lol

Brendon Warren · Jul 27, 2013

Ive been around john deere balers most of my life and have never seen one that hasn't been fixed in the same spot. I own three of them and my uncle runs two. They all have been fixed. We keep a spare set ready to go.

John_PA · Jul 27, 2013

Well, there's your problem!

Did you weld that together the first time? Before you answer, if it were me, and I did that weld, I would never ever publicly admit to it.

The idea with welding is to actually melt the metal on both surfaces. That looks more like pigeon poop!

Once you grind all that nasty booger out of there and burn it in correctly, you shouldn't have to worry about it for a while.

John_PA · Jul 27, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:12:38 07/27/13) if you had a ford baler to go with the ford tractor you would be in good shape! lol

+1! LOL

steve terplak · Jul 27, 2013

Tell me about your rack truck...
Looking to get something like that for myself
Glad you got baled

JayinNY · Jul 27, 2013

No, I did not weld that as I said above.

JayinNY · Jul 27, 2013

Hi Steve, it's a 89 with a 350 engine 4x4 and a turbo 400 auto tranny. 176,000 miles engine tranny never been touched. It has a 9 foot dump rack body on it. I really have to get some rear leaf spring work done on it, 3 springs are broke and the rest need a re curve. Ya this is a good old truck.

steve terplak · Jul 27, 2013

I was looking at a 95 with 454
Somewhat beat up...

Larry NEIL · Jul 27, 2013

Bales look nice and tight Jay.

JK-NY · Jul 27, 2013

I have a JD 336 baler and had the arm break in the same area as yours did. I was able to weld it and it has held for sevreal years.I cut a big washer in two and used it to reinforce the area and span the broken area . I got about 450 bales in today myself. I hope you got it all picked up, its raining here and heading east toward you.

GVSII · Jul 28, 2013

Looks like it drops a decent bale.

Few pics of haying today!

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