farmersamm
08-27-2008, 02:53 AM
Couldn't sleep, so here goes
I don't know whether this figures as a mechanicin' post, but a hay baler is a mechanical thing.
This is a hinge failure due to lack of grease. Lack of grease do to yours truly. :(
I've known where these fittings were for a verrrry looooong time. Couldn't get grease in 'em because they were plugged, and I wasn't too keen on taking the whole thing apart to clear the hole. Couldn't just remove the fitting and use a screwdriver. Wasn't accessable.
So, bein' the perfectionist I am, I'd try every year to give it a shot of grease, shrug my shoulders, and head fer the field.
When this baby went, the hay pickup assy. was shoved back into the drive sprockets for the floor chains. Very noisy affair. Decided it might be time to get back down to the house, and take a look at it.
All of the pics are in reverse order. What it looked like when I was done, back to what it looked like becuz of ol' dummy me. Yellow thing in front of baler is the hay pickup assy.
I don't know whether this figures as a mechanicin' post, but a hay baler is a mechanical thing.
This is a hinge failure due to lack of grease. Lack of grease do to yours truly. :(
I've known where these fittings were for a verrrry looooong time. Couldn't get grease in 'em because they were plugged, and I wasn't too keen on taking the whole thing apart to clear the hole. Couldn't just remove the fitting and use a screwdriver. Wasn't accessable.
So, bein' the perfectionist I am, I'd try every year to give it a shot of grease, shrug my shoulders, and head fer the field.
When this baby went, the hay pickup assy. was shoved back into the drive sprockets for the floor chains. Very noisy affair. Decided it might be time to get back down to the house, and take a look at it.
All of the pics are in reverse order. What it looked like when I was done, back to what it looked like becuz of ol' dummy me. Yellow thing in front of baler is the hay pickup assy.