Well, I got my bailing outfit ready.

FarmboyBill · #1 06/25/14, 11:47 AM

What do ya think? lol
Well, I had a pic or 2 of me on my Panzer backed up to the bailer, but now I cant find it.
how long u think ital. take me to mow 12 acres with this? lol

Bret · #2 06/25/14, 02:23 PM

Good work. Now that you got it all greased and ready, ya just need to put that PTO guard back on. I know...it's next.

I want to see how the hay looks.

...faster than a scythe. Fun.

Michael W. Smith · #3 06/25/14, 03:10 PM

Looks good.

But it's baler. As in "I'm baling hay." - not "I'm bailing hay."

FarmboyBill · #4 06/25/14, 04:16 PM

Don't have the guard. Ive never had a guard on any tractor Ive owned. My boys AC WD has a guard as its part of the platform, but that's it.
Besides, you get on and off from the side on these tractors.

ksfarmer · #5 06/25/14, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Don't have the guard. Ive never had a guard on any tractor Ive owned. My boys AC WD has a guard as its part of the platform, but that's it.
Besides, you get on and off from the side on these tractors.

Ever see a demo where they let a dummy's sleeve or pant leg touch a pto shaft running?

Ever have a neighbor with only one arm, lucky to be alive?

FarmboyBill · #6 06/25/14, 05:24 PM

Had a neighbor who, back in the 50s, on an old Oliver had his pants leg taken off. They were old overhalls so all he lost was the pants leg. Heard of others who lost their hands in corn pickers. One guy cut his own hand off to get it out.

Brighton · #7 06/25/14, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Had a neighbor who, back in the 50s, on an old Oliver had his pants leg taken off. They were old overhalls so all he lost was the pants leg. Heard of others who lost their hands in corn pickers. One guy cut his own hand off to get it out.

Shortly after HS one of my best friends lost his entire right arm to a PTO, and almost his life.

galee · #8 06/25/14, 05:54 PM

Gee....being of both the emergency medicine and farming type, DH and I should maybe carry CAT tourniquets when we are using farm machinery. Hummmm....maybe a pouch on the overhauls?

ksfarmer · #9 06/25/14, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by galee

Gee....being of both the emergency medicine and farming type, DH and I should maybe carry CAT tourniquets when we are using farm machinery. Hummmm....maybe a pouch on the overhauls?

Farming is right at the top of dangerous occupations. Know your safety rules, shut off equipment being worked on, use all shields over moving parts, avoid loose clothing, lots of common sense rules. Big round balers, corn pickers, mowers and the rest are very dangerous if we get too complacent and lax. I guess I'm the way I am about farm safety because of events that happened close to me. Neighbor boy caught in baler belts, gives me nightmares, no one knows if he died before the baler caught fire, speculation was that he attempted to pull out some hay on fire because of a bearing overheating, got caught on the belts. It's nothing to joke about folks.

michael ark · #10 06/25/14, 07:05 PM

I agree with you all . Farm naked it's safer!

If god wants you he will take you . It's just up to you if here comes like a old friend or a thief in the night.

kycrawler · #11 06/26/14, 02:55 PM

Take an old piece of 4 inch plastic drain tile. Cut it lengthwise and they make a PTO shield that's better than nothing

Bret · #12 06/26/14, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Don't have the guard. Ive never had a guard on any tractor Ive owned. My boys AC WD has a guard as its part of the platform, but that's it.
Besides, you get on and off from the side on these tractors.

Didn't mean to cause the drift but I am a coward with PTOs and machinery because they are neat and I and I heard too many stories when I was a kid. I know you know how to be safe. Fun pictures.

FarmboyBill · #13 06/26/14, 03:38 PM

Weel, I didn't git this old by bein unsafe lol

M5farm · #14 06/26/14, 03:51 PM

it will take a whole lot longer to cut it than to bale it. How are you going to windrow it?

FarmboyBill · #15 06/26/14, 07:22 PM

Heres what I REALLY use to cut and rake
The rake is a JD, but I also have 2 Case rakes built the same way. The JD and one of the Cases were my dads. I have a MH and a IHC horse mowers, both 6ft. The mower on the 48 H is a IHC #24

Allen W · #16 06/26/14, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ksfarmer

Ever see a demo where they let a dummy's sleeve or pant leg touch a pto shaft running?

Ever have a neighbor with only one arm, lucky to be alive?

A friends wife found him naked and dazed one morning when she went to pick him up. The PTO shaft on the baler had caught his clothes and ripped them off, just his brute strength had saved him.

FarmboyBill · #17 06/26/14, 08:24 PM

Yep, that's what happened to a guy who was some relation. Ripped his pants leg off. Maybe lucky if he had a hole in the knee to aid rip lol.
Knew a guy who liked to drunk and run a buzz saw. He only had one arm.
My uncle milt tried to pick a corn cob out of his sheller. It got the last joint on one finger.
Guy fell off the back of his tractor, (likely drunk) and got disced over.
Me and younger bro were wearing a pair each of dads old overhalls. they had big cuffs. Bro kicked a wad of hay in the bailer and the pick up teeth grabbed his cuff. I hit him across the chest and knocked him back. now, I wish Ida hit him harder,
Gun sent his family to church while he stayed home, and his gun shot him
THINGS HAPPEN. I can remember when nearly every year, in the fall, someone would get wrapped up in their corn picker.

farminghandyman · #18 06/26/14, 08:38 PM

If you plug up the baler, do not use the pto to help clear it, keep all hand and feet away from any moving part,

FarmboyBill · #19 06/26/14, 08:49 PM

My neighbor, who has done my round bailing several times, wasn't used to haygrazer, although he had bailed it on me before. All his other hay was pararie hay that he bailed for other people. Well, he was used to clipping along. He plugged up around 5 times. LIKE TA KILLED ME. Cleaning it out with him. Finally I told him to slow it down. He did, and it worked, so he put it in a higher gear and it plugged one more time. I saw it from the house, and waited till I figured he had got around 1/2 of it unplugged, and went down on my Cub, and helped him finish. He kept it slow and didn't have any other plugs.

Molly Mckee · #20 06/26/14, 10:39 PM

Just north of here a farmer fell into his round baler when he was trying to unplug it. His wife found him crushed. A neighboring farmer years ago stepped over the PTO when he was filling silo and got pulled in. He lived 3 weeks, suffering terribly. Farm equipment is dangerous, you have to be careful and turn it off before working on it. It is tempting to let it run, it is usually much easier to unplug and much faster but it is not worth killing yourself.