Someone PLEASE invent...

notjustair · Feb 14, 2015

...something that keeps baler twine from wrapping around axles!!

I am very, VERY particular about getting every piece of twine off of bales when I feed. You know how that works once they are freezing to the ground, though. I usually don't have trouble in the lots, it is the row up that's the issue. About every two days I am cleaning out all four corners of the 4020 and the hay wagon I loaded them on. I am constantly envisioning a ruined seal or bearing, so I never leave it. It gets old when you are already taking the twine off the bales and then you are taking it off the tractor. Of course, I am preaching to the choir.

I spent a couple hours feeding today and thought the whole time of something I could make. I don't really want small pieces everywhere. I thought about making something that would clamp to the axle with a cutter on it, but then you would have eight inch long pieces everywhere. I couldn't come up with anything, other than make it quit being muddy so the string wouldn't stick to a balled up tire and start the process. Oh, and not get cold enough to rip the bottom of the bales up. Maybe I should farm in the desert.

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 14, 2015

I want someone to invent a log straightener, preferably in a price range that I can afford. It would give me a lot more lumber out of some of these trees.
Zach

flying belgian · Feb 14, 2015

Not really an invention but I wish for the local school district to offer an adult class for using a smart phone.

bison · Feb 14, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:47:11 02/14/15) ...something that keeps baler twine from wrapping around axles!!

I am very, VERY particular about getting every piece of twine off of bales when I feed. You know how that works once they are freezing to the ground, though. I usually don't have trouble in the lots, it is the row up that's the issue. About every two days I am cleaning out all four corners of the 4020 and the hay wagon I loaded them on. I am constantly envisioning a ruined seal or bearing, so I never leave it. It gets old when you are already taking the twine off the bales and then you are taking it off the tractor. Of course, I am preaching to the choir.

I spent a couple hours feeding today and thought the whole time of something I could make. I don't really want small pieces everywhere. I thought about making something that would clamp to the axle with a cutter on it, but then you would have eight inch long pieces everywhere. I couldn't come up with anything, other than make it quit being muddy so the string wouldn't stick to a balled up tire and start the process. Oh, and not get cold enough to rip the bottom of the bales up. Maybe I should farm in the desert.

ts simple enough.
After you load the wagon ..walk around it and cut all loose hanging twine off, that way it can not get wrapped around the axles

I have the same problem with bales frozen to the ground and the resulting twine breaking and dragging along.
I have however very little problem with twine wrapping around the axles, when it happens i just cut it off as soon as i am done feeding....so far only twice this winter.
I feed around 1000 rounds a year just with the tractor(no wagon)

notjustair · Feb 14, 2015

This is no lie.

I have an 88 year old neighbor that is loonier than a pet coon. He's just a deal. He hauls all of this wheat and beans to town behind his beat up pickup. The gravity wagons have about a mile of slop in the hitch and every tire is from a different decade but equally as bald. Anyway, this year I was waiting behind him at the elevator. He took forever to get his rig off of the scales. I hate it when people go in and want to socialize in the middle of harvest. Do that when your load is dumping.

I finally get weighed and sit behind him on the ramp again for another 15 minutes. When I got to the pit I said something about crazy Bob and the guy just looked at me. It seems that Bob was getting everyone at the elevator to show him how to make a call on his new phone.

You don't need a class. You need to haul a load of wheat to the elevator in Baldwin City.

JD Seller · Feb 14, 2015

The twine wrapping around things is one reason I like mesh wrap better. I watch where I set my bales and rarely have any freeze to the ground. Even with ice on the bales I can usually remove the wrap before using them fairly easily.

As for your issue there is nothing really to do but keep them cut off anything that turns regularly.

IF I do have to set bales out in a row where I think they may freeze down I lay a three foot wide pieces of plastic down under the bales. This way they do not freeze to the ground. I buy the plastic off a local guy that is raising row planted. It is made to be rolled out on the ground and the edges covered with dirt and the plants/trees planted through the plastic. I think a 500 foot roll is like $100. It is not that high and works great. The bales also do not wick water up as bad off the ground either.

notjustair · Feb 14, 2015

Many of the bales sit in a low swag that the barnyard drains through. Do you ever have issue with water sitting on top of the plastic so that the bale is in its own little lake? I like that idea other than getting off the tractor to grab the plastic with each bale. I guess you could use a piece long enough for about five bales so you would t be getting off so often.

Hmm, something to think about.

ben brown · Feb 14, 2015

oh no it great stuff i get to replace at least 2,to 3 sets seal on front and rear axle each year in my shop

JD Seller · Feb 14, 2015

I lay the roll out about 4-5 bales long. I leave the plastic roll laying there and carefully straddle it. So I just get off and unroll it every so often. I use a piece of #9 wire in a staple shape to anchor it down while I am stacking the row. I then do the reverse when feeding them I just roll the plastic back up. I often get several years out of the same plastic.

I make six foot diameter bales. So they cover most of the plastic so there is little water ever on them. I also have created row that I have stacked on for years. I took plows and threw up a headland for the bales to set on so the water is diverted away from under the bales. You can do the same thing with sand or gravel too. That even works better. Some coarse gravel just a few inches deep will allow the water to wick away.

I watch and only move bales out of these rows when the ground is where I do not cut ruts in the ground. So it either is dry or frozen. If I know it is heading to a wet time I set a few weeks supply up on solid ground. Cured hay in the winter will take on very little water compared to heavy spring/summer rains.

sms · Feb 15, 2015

Notice other replies off topic.... How about car/truck doors that don't dump all the snow on the seat when you open them. Whatever happened to rain gutters anyway????

howdy1960 · Feb 15, 2015

My belief is rain gutters weren't aerodynamic.
Once they went to fuel injection the gutters went away.
I had a 66 Plymouth Fury got 25 MPG with a V8 and 2 Bbl carb with gutters.
My 95 Mazda B2300 injected 4 banger gets 25 MPG AND snow inside ever time I open the door.

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