Re: Jay Walt's post

Posted by Andy Martin on October 04, 2006 at 15:49:59 from (64.219.39.195):

In Reply to: Re: Jay Walt's post posted by BillyinStoughton on October 04, 2006 at 12:04:33:

I agree completely, I just find I get acceptable reliability (and most of my farming is baling hay) wiht a little less maintenance than the average espoused on this forum. And my reliability is greater than the guys with the newer tractors. The newer ones are built so lightly they seem to need a lot of repairs compared to an old M.

It's usually the implements that break down around my farm but I keep enough spares around I don't have to go to town.

Case in point: My Vermeer 504 Super G burned up a bearing two weeks ago. This was on the drive end of the main shaft with the three sprocket cluster. I have two other bearings running warm, and I have drilled the seal in one to grease it and it is running cooler. It burned up on Friday evening and we had the bearing replaced by 11:00 Saturday, the dew was just clearing. I thought about replacing the other two bearings while I had the belts relaxed BUT the bearing I replaced was installed new by the dealer two years ago when I bought the baler and the others are old, maybe original. It ain't broke, I didn't fix it, and we finished baling this week. I won't replace them for next summer because I have no confidence the new bearings will last any longer than the old ones. And I buy them from the dealer.

Now laugh at me, my saying is this "I've never found time to fix it right and I have always found time to fix it over". The second part of that is that only 5% needs fixed over and overall I am operating cheaper.

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