Posted by Dan in North Houston on February 15, 2015 at 16:46:09 from (98.200.8.225):
In Reply to: Ag Jeeps posted by WheatFarmer on February 15, 2015 at 15:15:37:
Years ago a neighbor had one, and he wanted to put up hay with us on shares, contributing his jeep and his labor for his part. His jeep had the pto on it. We cut with a sickle bar, and used a NH 404 hay crimper to help dry the hay. He thought that he could run the crimper with his jeep. Problems were that the Jeep was too low, hay kept wrapping around the PTO shaft. He had poor visibility while driving it around, and it was was hard to see out the back with the tailgate in place. Couldn't leave the tailgate down, it would hit the crimper on turns. But worst of all, the Jeep had no governor, so it was a real pain trying to keep the RPM's right. The crimper had shear bolts on the drive head, and it was pretty easy to shear them if you hit a heavy slug of grass. The inability to hold the RPMs constant meant that it was shearing the bolts right and left. I was about 15 at the time, and a pretty seasoned hand at running all of the equipment, but after one round of the field, I thought it was the most useless thing I had ever seen. Dad thought so too, told him to take the darned thing home and get it out of our way. He was welcome to stay and help, but the Jeep wasn't.
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