that stack wagon is one nice unit. Tim is an awesome operator on that machine. those are some nice looking bales. nice video looking forward to many more.
Don't forget to tell Tim he does a good job every now and then. It's easy to forget to say thank you and good work when your are working together. Maybe he does not know you think he runs that stack wagon so well and would appreciate hearing it. Even big Timmy wants a pat on the back like your little guy.
Back in the day, our cultimulcher had oak bearings. We greased ever 45 min to an hour but we weren’t running as fast as you either. I remember we changed them one time. Good luck and good videos!!!
Now that oak bearing is something I would do and have done. Made a couple of those for my old water well drilling rig cause I couldn’t find the right ball bearings to fit it anymore. It worked great. Smart thinking on your part Wes. I knew when you said you were going to Home Depot exactly what you were going to do. 👍
Nice to have your boy's working the farm + getting paid. Like a job that you love, things couldn't be better. Tim runs that bale stacker like a pro. In eleven or so years, William will start working the farm under his bro Tim. Wes , your going to have to change your name to Grateful Farmer!
I agree with thicker on the wood bearing but that's a hell of a fix on the run for sure!!! That stack wagon looks like it doing a great job after the initial issues on hooking it up ,I can't remember what the issue was but I know it was something with hydraulic system that was completely unfixable by popular opinion ! Mike Less has had a good video on a Stinger self propelled bale wagon out west pretty recently! Tim is doing great with that stack wagon , thanks for taking us along!!!
That oak idea is awesome and your engineering skills are the reason that I watched your channel because you give me lots of ideas and are proof that just because equipment is a little older doesn’t mean that it can’t perform well when properly maintained even if you have to Mc Giver it once in a while to get you through until the parts come in. 👍👍👍👍
I liked the stack wagon part of the vlog. But, I've seen a few self contained truck style units on other vlogs and they seem faster. But, I'm not a farmer and I respect whatever you deem to serve you needs. The wood bearing took me back to my Grandpas farm in the 70's. A bearing would go bad. He'd cuss and spit his Copenhagen and head to the workbench and get out his Mics and make a new one out of OAK while waiting on delivery of parts. I thought it was a lost art until today. Tks. Wess.
Anyone whom claims that your wooden bearing won't last, don't know sh*t about wooden bearings period. They last longer than people think they do. Stack master Tim!! He should be, think he's done it enough. Great video as always. Cheers :)
Pretty brilliant, looked at lots of old equipment in my time and they were virtually the same thing. Just never dawned on me that it could be duplicated. And if like you said could have doubled or tripled up the oak you probably wouldn't need to change out the remainder of the season. Unless of course you have other contracted jobs. Dang that was smart, but shredders are heavy and that's a understatement not like wood blocks on corn heads or dump wagons but, what a improve on the go
That's a really cool implement. I've never seen that one before. When I've done hay, we always did round bales though, not square. Awesome share! Thanks.
Just a suggesting on making the stock chopper trail better going down the road , if its easy move the drawbar to the right side of the tractor . it should give you some extra space.
So Wes are flotation tires for semis cheaper than the flotation tires for the stack wagon? I like the wood bearing idea that was pretty neat now you just need to glue a cup over the end of the wood to keep the dirt out and grease in.... maybe - Nice video Wes !!
Wes you could put the second piece of oak on diagonally. Drill the holes to clear the top of the studs and nuts and use some large coach screws through both pieces. it gives you twice the bearing surface and you could even chisel a hole from the top down to grease them.
Wes. Because you are already unhooking and re hooking the hitch to pull from the end why not off set the hitch on the 4960 to the right when you switch to road mode
Quick question. Why not put a bale pusher on the front of the tractor to spin the bales? Make loading them a lot quicker? The stacker looks a much better job than the arcusin I drove this summer!! 300 bales in a stack isn't a fierce amount? We put near 1500 in one stack this summer with two chasers.. that was one big stack.
Circa 1940's, PAP, harvested an American Chestnut in western Pennsylvania and built a set of dutch doors for the farmhouse. Air dried the remaining pieces and used that many times for bearing wood. Some had worm holes which absorbed and held the grease for many years. Some repair methods never change as long as the hardwood is sourced from heartwood of the tree.
Long as you grease it ,it'll run , dirt shouldn't migrate in if greases pushing it out. Ran lots of wood bearings soaked in oil and grease. On our old farm uncle jake was genuinely pure farmer.
We’d throw them two extras in a pail if used oil. Wood will soak it up and it will not wear very fast at all. Did that to hold a shaft on a auger tight. Worked great. Block doesn’t wear when soaked in oil.
If I heard you right and your in Snow Hill Maryland. You should call 'Power-Trans' In Bridgeville Delaware. More than likely they will have your bearing and it will Probably be cheaper. Be a bit of a ride but its better than a week wait.
Pretty smart repair, I'd like to see how it holds up. Guy on RU-vid made a cylinder head out of wood for 5 hp Briggs and stratton. It was cool but to much heat. Your bering will not get hot like that. Just may work.
Wood bearing... That is pretty interesting. We have a place call power drive here locally. If you know the ID, OD, and style of the bearing they pretty much have it. I am sure you have to have places like that around.
when i saw the wood ' bearing' i said to myself:if there's plenty of grease in there, it may actually work! and behold, it works... as long as the ' bearing' is softer than the shaft i don't think it'll cause too much wear on the rest of the machine, but i guess we'll see that in the next video, or maybe afterwards. good job!
I hope you take the time to look Tim in the eye and say "Damn good job" that mattered for me and it I hopes it does for my son when we work a shitty job
With all the dust that kicks up and long run times maybe an auto lube system would be a good addition to the shredder. Alot of equipment uses wood blocks for chain tighteners and they last for years with chain dragging across them. Don't know if it'll make a difference on how long it'll last or not but to me I think it might be better for the grain of the wood to be horizontal instead of vertical. If it fails try it the other way. Even when you get the bearing and this is still running it would be interesting to see just how long the wood would last.
John Deere still uses a wooden block (split design) for it's 348 small square baler augers. Starts making noise, spray some lubricant into it and it's quiet for another 40,000 bales.
Hey Wes I know u r on the Easter shore of Maryland last I knew like the Salisbury or snow hill area there a auto store in Salisbury name RC Holloway on mill street they usually keep the hard to find part worth a try
I drove past a farm today on Spring Mills Rd in between 519 and Rummel. Wes I shit you not the corn is only maybe at best 18' inches high. I wish you were home to see it and vidoe it. I'm sure as soon as the insurance adjuster starts the truck it'll be getting disked into the ground. I thought it was a hay field at first until I slowed down.
I used to work at a Honda Car repair shop and the man next door who owned the building had an Alternator and starter shop . He told me when he was a young man he worked at a repair shop and he rebuilt Model As and it cost $27 dollars to rebuild the engine Unless the crank was bad Like if it spun a bearing. He said that when that happened they would take an old leather belt and wrap the crank with a piece of the belt and put the cap back on and it would last a wile. I am sure they did this with the customers approval I hope. Wes, would you friend me on face book I need to pick your brain about a John Deere 553 It is a 2014 year model it is my neighbor, father in Laws Tractor and he is in the hospital now in Alaska and they almost killed him. Anyhow he wants to fix it before His father in Law gets home. Jeff Waltz I am in Jacksonville Florida And my Pic is a beddy and me swimming with a shark in Bimini Bahamas Thank you so much.
Considering Tim likes to play videogames in his free time like all the millenials do,operating this stack wagon is for him probably like plaiyng some video game. More practice,more skills.It's just all about on perfecting the coordinations.
Your giving me an itch to bale stalks...Nearly impossible to square bale in fall for us..cant get them dry. Bean straw in the fall and corn stalks in the spring.
