I respect the way you don't back down from a big repair. A lot of people would have been too intimidated to tackle something with that many parts involved. Never say die just do what you have to do.
Love seeing Teresa in there working with you. My fiance doesn't mind getting in there and getting dirty and greasy either. It's nice to have a significant other that's such a big help!
Really neat to see how everyone works together. Reminds me of my family years ago. Hats off to Theresa and not being afraid to work hard and not afraid of dirt. She's a rare find these Days you better hang on to her! Glad to see everything working again.
Wes and remember you were always worried about the availability of Krone parts and backup when you were looking to buy a new baler? well it looks like Krone had no problems in getting those parts to you with incredible speed, and I firmly believe with 100% accuracy a new pickup is not something Krone would sell on daily basis from their spare parts catalogue!
If you farm you are gonna break something. We broke the rear axle out of a 9960 Deere cotton picker when he ran into a shallow well that had been filled in. This was done at night. 12 hours later we had it going again. I drove 60 miles to a dealer who took one out of a new picker and had it waiting on me. That was a LONG night but during harvest you do what you have to do. Glad to see you making money again......
If Cody can handle the Math- the calculus and differential equations.. he will make a fine engineer...his maintenance work is teaching him good design vs bad design in ways he will never forget...
Michael Owen yes he will. And we need more like him. if he approaches school the same way the Pandy family approaches any other problem, he'll do fine. I'm 3 years out of school and I've seen the kind of kids that want to be engineers, a lot of them have never turned a wrench. They tend to be straight A students, but lack the practical knowledge to build something. You need those kind of guys, but you need practical guys too. Guys that see the reality of the problem at hand rather than the theory. Sure the math is hard, but with a good teacher, it's not bad. Engineering is all theory until you hit reality.
Michael Owen 30 years, that's pretty cool. Some of the coolest guys I've ever met are old engineers and old time farmers. I've heard a lot of great stories from those guys.
Kudos to Theresa for being such a great worker, and hanging in there to help get this back together! (stupid question, but I trust you're gonna grind, remove, or at least mark that stump, correct??)
Wow! That sucks! We weren't able to get our pasture cut this year. We thought we finally found someone with a rotary swather but was broke down due hitting concrete at a previous job. Our pasture has contours and is difficult for a conventional swather but it can be done. A few years ago a guy we hired to cut the pasture hit a railroad tie. I had two ties I made into ramps to raise the water trailer. I left the ties out of the way along the fence. But pasture gates were left open for swather and I think someone saw the ties and tried to steal them. Because where the tie was hit was about 30 feet from were I left them. Thief probably pulled it out of weeds along fence, seen it was cut and left it. I never new until I went to set up water trailer in the fall. Same guy wrecked a corner brace trying to get a 20 foot swather through a 14 foot gate instead of the 26 foot gate I was instructed to make. This guy and previous guy both retired from the hay business. Thus our trouble this year. So next year I might try and rent equipment and cut pasture myself.
Hey Wes I just watched a bunch of your logging and firewood video's. It would be great if you do some more of those after haying season is over. I thought they were good.
Good to see you got it back together, you've got a good crew, look at your woman getting down and dirty working side by side with you, can't beat having a good woman. Loving your videos.
Looks like its working perfect! I wish the pick up on my New Holland round baler worked that nice! I cant remember if anyone in the round baler market has gone to a cam-less pickup design yet
I think your taking this well. I know I would be sick sick if that happened to me. You planning on removing what you hit the rest of the way? I know I would be destroying what remained of it. Congrats on a successful repair!
Hey Wes thats good you got going again, I'd bet Krone said a while ago this guys gonna stuff a pick up rotor we better have one or 2 in stock! . Well Your going my balers broke, so I'm just going to phone Mazers here in Manitoba and find out how long it's going to take to get the bearings, and how much KY I need to take when I pay for them L.O.L. I did actually check Messicks online last night. They don't have them, but if they did I'd of got them to drop ship to our local U.S border. I saved over $1000 Canadian with the exchange, on 4 spreader bearings from another company. It was going to be weeks to get them here in Canada as they had no stock in the country, those should be at the border tomorrow or Wednesday. Canadian company's bitch we do this but if your service is crap, and you violate your customers bank accounts heavily what do you expect. Take care guys and don't wreck any more stuff this season !.
To help the old knees out, at minimum get a dense foam yoga mat or even better a thicker pool float. The yoga mat is easy to store away and deploy. I carry one on my truck as an emergency creeper.
One thing I'll mention that will make everyone's life nicer who works on stuff while on their knees. Keep an eye out for a swimming pool mat floaty. they are expensive to by new but you see them at garage sales and curbsides when they start to look bad. I use those for throwing on the ground as they are larger. You don't have to keep moving it and they are generally about 2 inches thick. Your knees will thank you, especially when working in a gravel driveway as sometimes cardboard doesn't give you enough cushion.
Good video just wondering do you like that rotor style pickup better than the cam style just seems like simple would be better pluses think it be more aggressive which I think be better?
If your dad mowed around the stump and didn’t tell warn you about the stump. That sounds lack of your team communication. But hey shit happens. I like how you just accept the fact that is was an accident and move on
I wonder why they didn't mark/pull the stump before bringing in the baler. Has the stump been marked/pulled yet or are you going to wait until next year? Excellent/fast repair/video btw.
I feel the same way about phones "airplane mode" = "work mode" to me, people on a phone often generally get nothing done, we wont mention their driving :)
Hey Wes!!! Someone said that you burned your Krone bailer down! That bailer your working on looks like your original bailer and I don't see where it burned, not even scorch marks... I did see where you were bailing and the black dust was flying and it looked like it was on fire, but I know from experience that that was just that weird colored dust and that you were not on fire. I don't know if that's what they where saying you were fire or what!! I know that equipment can catch fire easy enough, but you seem to be on top of things and know when you have problems.. Good luck with the repair on the pick up header!!!
I have a pto question I just got a kubota m5 111 the pto is a 540 and most hay cutters are 1000 pto. Found some adapters but are they safe to use or will you destroy ur tractor and pto
It if makes you feel better I try harvest rocks, there was pile of rocks not mark and during day. Oh well lucky there was no damage to table and drum. Broken finger on front and hell lot golf ball size rocks coming out back. Life so boring without a stuff up👍
are you going to take a big battery powered drill out in the fields and poke fiberglass rods into obstructions so when the hay gets deep.. the fiberglass rods still stick up.. think the pulling type rods for pulling wire.. just a thought.. might want to also create a multi layer plywood shape so you can put bent hoops over to pound them back to the proper shape. oh.. see if you can find some REAL moving blankets.. not the paper cloth versions.. real woven fabric moving blankets. they work so great to work on hard surfaces.. and to clean them.. just throw them over a fence before a rain storm.
Insurance company's suck I love how you pay for years then file and they pay and threaten to cancel your policy if it isn't about the money to them then what is it!!!!
Think ive beaten you to the "bad knee". i have rods and a full new knee joint at 22years old curtiousy of MD Anderson cancer center. That was fun, Not! Either way not even a year after surgery im back up and moving along like before even with all the treatments. Have shit to do and no time to waste.. maybe need to return for a knee service in 20 years but till then im golden.
If you've had to pay back in increased premiums all the money they've paid you for claims, then what the h3ll good is the insurance to start with?? Might as well save the money and pay for the repairs when incidents like this happen... I can see having some sort of catastrophic coverage, in case the machine catches fire and burns to the ground, or a rock gets pulled in and destroys the entire machine, or the hitch breaks and the thing goes off a slope down into a creek and flips over or something... but otherwise, the insurance seems pretty worthless if the premium increases after a claim is as bad as you say... I know when we row cropped and the gubmint required you either buy cat coverage from them or "buy-up" insurance locally, we never came out either way. At least cat coverage was only $100 bucks per crop per county. One year we bought 85% crop coverage from a local agent and had a flood pour about a half foot of rain on the farm in about 2 hours, standing water everywhere and cotton seed sprouted in the boll, which I had NEVER seen before in my life (neither had my 87 year old grandmother, who'd been on the farm in the cotton business her entire life). I called the insurance guy and he asked how far along we were, since the rest of the unharvested cotton in the field was going to be a total loss... I told him we were about 3/4 done... He told me, "Well, I'm sure you're over the maximum anyway; even if everything you have left is a total loss..." and hung up... IOW they didn't pay a damn red cent. Another year we had cat insurance on grain sorghum-- it was bone dry and the grain head didn't come up out of the boot (whorl) very much (didn't exert very far), and then we got a Gulf Storm that leaned the crop over to about a 45 degree angle in high winds and "stuck" it there, and the rain and bad conditions led to a lot of mold on the grain. My insurance guy called me before we started harvest to tell me that "if you have any loads rejected for mold, stop combining and call us right away!" I got about half the farm harvested and was hauling grain to the egg farm, and had a load rejected, so I called them. They then told me to "go on and harvest the rest of it, but keep all the scale tickets and stuff handy and they'd pay for the mold damage that led to the crop being docked at the elevator. I called them when we finished harvest and they sent out an adjuster, gave him all the papers, and he went out to his rental car (they had SO many claims that year that they brought in adjusters from all over the country-- the guy I had was from Iowa). I went out to the car to offer him a soda or tea since it was pushing 100 degrees, and saw he had charts and calculators and tables and stuff out like the owners manual of a 747... After all that, he said he had everything he needed and they'd mail me a check... Turns out my whopping reimbursement for about $1,200 in dockage on the grain I sold was a whopping $120... and the damn insurance premium for cat coverage was $100... so I pocketed $20 bucks... After a few incidents like that with crop insurance, we decided crop insurance was totally worthless and didn't bother buying it any more... As most insurance is... you owe them a penny, you better have there ON TIME and IN FULL... but they owe YOU money, there is NOTHING they won't do to obfuscate, prevaricate, or do to screw you and wiggle off the hook and not pay... Only thing lower than a politician is insurance companies IMHO... Later! OL J R :)
Yota's are life by custom harvester he meaning someone whos main income or a vast majority is doing field work for others. most farmers do custom work for neighbors mainly to help pay for larger equipment that is more efficient like a combine or because they have equipment that many don't normally use or can't justify to own, like me I do silo bagging because I have one because my silo became unsafe so I'll do some for neighbors when they run short of storage.
