I must agree... The older I get the more mellow I am... My son and grand son was here the other day and my grandson was out side the shop throwing rocks and busted a window out in the shop... I went out and got him and made him clean the glass up then to pay for a new window He has to paint slip plate in my gravity flow wagons... My son asked if I was ok and I said yea why... Kyle said well if I broke a window out at 12 years old you would have worn my ass out with the belt...
Wow!!!! The only complaint is have of you showing us how to fix and/or rebuild the bill hooks and the knotter system is if you would have shined a light down into the knotter as your making the repairs and putting it back together. This is the first time I've had someone show how to determine what and where your problems are in the knotter and how to correct it. Nice job Wes!!! Be right honest with you, I wish I had some one like you showing me some of this stuff when I was younger and learning this stuff.... most of what I know I've had to teach myself or just watch as someone else was doing it, and hoping I didn't get in the way to end up being chased away and not getting to see the completed job. Thanks for showing us how to do this, learned a lot on this video..
thanks, enjoyed, by the time my kids were raised~~ I finally got a grip on raising kids. now there all moved away and I really wish I had enjoyed them and teaching them more. and yes my patience is much much better now.
Good for you for involving the children in the equipment repair and having the patience to give them the guidance that they need without making a big deal about their mistakes. Also, your power of observation in analyzing the various problems with the equipment are absolutely amazing. You have the ability to zero in on the root cause of the problems and take the intelligent approach to correcting the situation.
Yup, totally agree. @ 50 now & 3 children later, (same age as your oldest 3 I believe) & my patience is 100 times what it was when I was just turned 24 with my first. I think we learned almost as much in the rearing of children as we did, when we were children ourselves. It also seems the oldest gets the hardest time. As I am the oldest in my own family I can relate. Timothy is a fine young man & I can't think of a more apt name for the eldest son of a hay farmer. ;-) Joseph & William will turn out alright too. In my experience the younger ones get to be more creative because the oldest paved the way & the going is a wee bit easier for them. Seems to be the way of things I'd say. Happy Harvest season Wes & to Teresa, your newest bundle & the whole family... Cheers!
The best learning tool, let em learn the hard way first. Then show them the correct, easy way, after they've lost their patience. Agree with you about the patience. Keep teaching them, keep letting them mess up but, make them fix it, with your supervision of course. Great video Wes, cheers :)
When I first started fixing balers they drove me crazy. Not only bilhooks but if the needles aren't coming up in the exact position then it will miss knots also. Once I studied them and figured it out it really became pretty simple to figure out what was wrong by simply walking behind it and watching. Of course I'm talking about the small balers. Love your videos.
Have to totally agree about the patience. I’ll tolerate 10 times as much as I did in my younger years. Great content fine teachings for those in need. 👍
A wise man said youth is wasted on the young. They have all the vigor and energy of youth but not the time in place in this world to have the knowledge that can come with age. Good observations Wes. William is a lucky boy. My best friend's Mom used to joke that first born born children should be like old Polaroid film, if you don't 'dip 'em they fade. He and I were both first borne and I'm pretty sure she was kidding.
Wes, this is one of your most informative videos as was the modification on the Heston bailer now I understand how the machine works. What I like to see is how to thread the twin. Thanks
True thing you speak on patient with children... I was mid 30's with my daughter... long story, she isn't around... but last girlfriend had daughter about same age as when I last saw my daughter... I had so much more patients than then, when I met her I was late 40's... now 50's much easier and much smoother and by far can tolerate more than I did then..... Oh yeah nice teaching lesson too
Good Afternoon Wes, I 100% agree with you on your patience theory that the older you get the more patience you develop especially men! I see it in myself and also watching my son who just turned 32 last week, I get so much satisfaction and happiness watching my son succeeding in life and applying things that not only I taught him but applying things he learned from other people also. Other than my health Life is GOOD! On a different subject, I hope your boys have some kind of understanding of the value you are giving them by taking the time to explain and teach them the vast knowledge database of your craft. Yes I said craft because anyone can read a book or watch a video on how to do just about anything nowadays, but what most people young or old don't understand is that there is a real art to it that can't be found in a book or on a video it only comes from doing a job over and over for years the "Craft" is a learned through experience only and you my friend have a wonderful way of passing that knowledge and "Craft" to the next generation! I suspect that your dad may have passed his knowledge onto you in a similar way...maybe not but regardless what your giving your boys can't be purchased at any price! You would have made a superb teacher had that been your calling. A message to your boys, Pay close attention to your dad! He is giving you the keys to success in life. If you plan on becoming a farmer or any other professional career. The skills Wes is teaching all of you can be applied to any career not just farming, because fixing things and the ability to solve problems applies to everything in life! I hope you know how lucky you are to having a dad that takes the time to not only show you how but explains the whys and what happens if things aren't done just right.
+Crazy Craig's RC's and 3d You have expressed very eloquently much of what I was attempting to say, or allude to, in my later posting. I did NOT have the mentoring (as Wes is giving) available to me in my youth. However, I was blessed (some say cursed) with an insatiable curiosity of how things worked and why. I was also blessed with an inane ability to 'visualize' mechanical devices and components in three dimensions from two dimensional drawings. These two abilities, combined with an uncanny memory have enabled me to be extremely well suited to my mechanical engineering & research employment for more than 44 years with ONE company. Well said! Ken
Great video! I didn’t know that about the knotters. I actually feel like I can get my square baler operating again. Hope everything is going well up there. We are entering our third stage of the apocalypse. Horrible drought, heavy rain and now army worms! So hay production might be over. When it should end late October to early November.
We my boy was little he cried and cried.. he was OK when we held him and cuddled him but as soon as we laid him down within an hour he was crying. . We had a year of sleepless nights before he was diagnosed with silent reflux. . A very common and minor ailment very similar to heartburn where stomach acid works it's way up when they are sleeping.. on bad nights I could place a hand under the back of his head and the hand under his heels and the little fella would arch his back rigid like a plank. . Any how.. the doc gave us a bottle of magic potion and one little spoonfuls changed our lives.. he's slept soundly ever since.. the sign of silent reflux are crying after being put down and arching his back crying.. being very rigid. . Just thought I'd mention it. Look after your lovely lady.. it can be really hard on her ..👍 oh another thing that helped... get one of her teeth shirts and put in the cot with him. It has to be a unwashed stinky one. It will comfort him while he sleeps with her smell.. it really works
I have been a regular viewer for a good while. I notice how patient you are now. could be your happy life with Theresa and baby helping a lot as well as older and wiser. Anyway good to see.
The Krone bill hook jaw and roller is about $49US, Complete bill hook w/shaft is $139US. A Rasspe patented double knotter system is used by most of the Krone Big Pack square balers.
Over here in the uk, the hook and roller part used to be know as the “Tow Hook” . But New Holland in their infinite wisdom now call that part the “Bill Hook” and they are also 65 uk pounds !.
Giving the two hour go for it time was worth far more than days in a classroom. They had to engage so when class began, they had a clue and the solution registered. Plenty of Heston owners will be all over this upload. Good luck with the weather and safe bale recovery. The spent compost fertilizing trailer backhaul could also be your corn retrieval and sales rig..I bet. At .15 cents a bushel durning harvest that will keep the tractors busy when haying is done. If anyone can figure out a trailer mod for hay delivery and compost/grain use on a trailer, you will. Hinged sides with hydraulics.
Hmmm.... Wes, Is that 'patience'....or...'wisdom' tempered by 'acceptance & experience' ??? I know that I am not the person now that I was at 20 ~ 30 years of age. I believe I have become far more "accepting" of the ilk produced by inexperience and (pray that I have) more influence to pass on the knowledge I have attained through (many) bad experiences. Thereby hoping to ameliorate the possible bad outcomes for them. This leads me to think of an aged tomb inscription... "Remember me as you pass by. As you now are, so once was I. As I now am, you too soon shall be..." This inspires me to do as much 'educating' of my children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren as I am possibly able in my allotted time. Damn my mind wanders these days!!! Keep "Pandy University" up & going!!! I enjoy all the videos! Ken
I was hoping you would get to the 6th knotter (6th from left) and show how fun it was to change the billhook on that knotter. I’ve had to make special punches to make that job possible. Thank you for your insight.
I have to agree I'm 50 now with two granddaughters I have so much more patience with them than I had with their mother and my son . Now I found my father's old idiot block maker and I'm going to try and by it to restore any pointers
Totally agree with the patients observation I have two grown boys and I'm in my second Mary and I have a new to me daughter minimum been together almost 3 years now and she called me dad and I call her daughter and that's all it is good but I do have more patience with her and I did with my boys at that same. age
im agreeing with you I seem to be more laid back and no ways as hot headed as I was at 25 now 53 just do the work take my time and get it done . seem to enjoy my work much better to for some odd reason I think im becoming my father as I grow older on this farm which isn't a bad thing lol
Wes I glad that I did not have child till I was 38 for two reasons lack of patience and I was never home always at work holidays back then were a better work day to me because I had less people to deal with you and your family have a good day GRUMPY OLD MAN WITH A BUS
My dad I think has got to be the most laid back person I know (mind you seeing as my mum is the opposite I doubt they would still be married if he wasn't.) It is why you know when you've really screwed up when he is mad.
you know you watch OLF work on balers too much when he stops to think of a word, and me, having never used a square baler in my life, knows what he's thinking of and says the term even though I ain't even there
I never had kids so maybe that's why I never mellowed and only got worse. I turned 49 last week and my fuse is short and it's lit. Alot of days I'm one word from ending up in jail. I milk cows and always wondered how I could afford kids, but now I just keep wondering how I can afford to keep milking cows. I guess that's the biggest part of my attitude is the dairy industry sucks and no one seems to care.
@@martinbenton742 ok the way I read it was the dealer would only get the whole bill hook. Doesn't surprise me more often then not you can't get parts and have to buy the whole assembly. I just went through that on a silage wagon ujoint. They change to ujoints with needle bearings instead of pins so you have to buy a new pto shaft for $640 and no one else could match that size or style ujoint.
I bleed that pale green and yellow for years now and i know Heston knotters are probably the best in the world but wrre those ever built for the hevy string your running through them
You have moments like this is why watch this show good job of the ed we didn't put him down be tried he heard himself he aint you and he doesn't have the patience with a machine that you do but would you got in he dug don't have quite yet his to make it go to the next level and that's the parts were most people do not don't have If you were the farm girl she would have cried she would have never made of this for she would have had to hire out the the help and this is where you would have to be waiting for somebody to come fix it and this is what a Vera business fails these machines fail a lot you retain a lot of the information as you work on over the years I mean evil even retain the information we lose her memory of we'll do it often but this is why I like watching you because you have the I have Halloween said the X factor when it comes to U ability to overcome a Find when you teach us what causes you to basely struggle with the machine and we see it would maybe will remember down the road nimbly won't but memo never even use it but at least we know that somebody taught us something we learned something today if these we have you ever had to use maces which we will never have to I'm glad I have a an acre of lot anywhere am homeless but to live where you live to actually make it in the feel that you may I wouldn't be able to survive I'd be like her son I would have the wouldn't be able to Tim to make ends meet and I would have to try of making myself make it different living I don't know how you like this although I like the fact that you can get over a struggle is I don't have the vocabulary that you do not have the riding skills that you do I presented I'm shy and into the barriers I see knew that I would like to have it me and the fact that we get to watch you do what you do I'll understand how you how you make money in this business I don't understand what it takes to make a deal with these Lee's mushroom farmers without them they're trying to low ball you and you're trying to get enough to make a living and paper a machine that you have no idea what the future requirements are going to be for it cause you didn't make it and if you did you try to get everything that causes you grief fixed before you built a dam thing since the farming business is all relying on carpeted the hayfields I don't know how you make ends meet you don't to water that's the understand why you grow Hey you have to water it it grows up a mean you know how you know they're spending time caring for it every day like you think would plant life is like where you have to know exactly when to water when to fertilize it how much so it's gonna get how to keep the bugs out of it having him that's is too much deal with you can't you can't guard your whole field it's just too many acres dealing with the bugs the dirt the machines that diesel fuel all the chemicals in order to produce mushrooms to have much more appreciation for now and I did before I'm let's all involved and making a mushroom
Where I'm not surprised is why don't you just cut out the middle man and make your own mushrooms as well and that way you get the whole process where you make the best quality mushroom you can and the best Hey you can for that mushroom that will you reduced to is the factors that will keep you out of business only left with only level be the market if you over made me if you will overproduce them that you busy screwed yourself but the whole point is to make his much of it as you can hope everybody else fails in order to make money at it
Wes beings Theresa is nursing, have her lay down flat on her back every time she feeds him. Take a few days & he should get much better. Her milk will flow to fast in any other position . Give it a try, in a week I'm sure he'll change a lot . Please Wes this is not a joke, my 90 year old mom would tell u same thing.
