I used to run a swather much like yours as a summer job. You'll need a tool and parts kit for fixing broken teeth in the field. The cutting teeth are riveted to the sickle bar. When you start leaving uncut strips behind you, you'll know you've broken a tooth. You have to take the tooth guard off, grind or chisel the rivet heads off the broken tooth, and punch the remaining rivets out of the bar. Put in the new tooth, put in new rivets, and set the rivets with two hammers; one below and one above. Put the guard back on and swath on. Repeat 2-4 times per hour. Good times.
Well, though lopsided, the swather is a taildragger. You've already ground looped it once. I think you should name it Trevor. Glad to see you boys carry starting fluid and zip ties with you.
Oh yes you definitely need to do a video when you get cutting on that swather, watching you manipulate those controls is priceless! The old machinery will make your farming more adventurous. Your tractor will easily run the baler, I've seen smaller tractors run them.
I had a trailer like that that I built. Hauled the swather I had all over the country. You just have to have pins with good hitch pins. Now you have to go through the drives and belts checking be for any problems. Follow the drives and Grease all bearings. After that pull the cutter bar out and look at all the sickles blades. The good thing is these machines are made to run for ever with proper maintenance.
This definitely brings back a lot of memories with my relatives on the farm in idaho. Blowing up semi drive lines with 30 tons of hay loaded trying to get out of a field and other fun farming things lol
Every Owatonna swather I owned had a hitch that attached to the tail wheel. Never had to use a trailer. And tail wheel frame was adjustable. It's been a long time since I owned one, I switched to a haybine since the Owatonnas never had conditioners on them. Once you get the hanger done you'll have to build a machine shed.
I'm always learning a reorientation by watching Jonas. Quite frankly I think the old farm equipment shows wisdom. Also, the airbike is just plain smart in inception.
Jonas can make any sort of video and it will still be interesting. I guess is coz he is just real and does not pretend much. He shows us things as they are.
My Great-Great-grandfather was a pastor in Owatonna, MN. Between Mason City, IA and Sleepy Eye, MN before heading to Morton, SD I actually love the old farm machinery as much as flying, it is how I grew up
jonas...your mind is waaaaayyyyy to active. i was just like you. still am but have managed to "settle down" just a little. keep going..i am having so much fun watching you dabble in 50 different things.
Oh yes. Reminds me of me. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jonas has ADHD. It can be a blessing and a curse depending on how you use it, hopefully Sylvia can keep him on track.
@@samroesch I'm 60 and did and often do the crazy shit Jonas does and did. The icing on the cake is when he converted the sprocket of a diet bike to excellerate of a snow covered small hill for a thrill.
I been missing your posts. The whole YT b.s. way of notifying me when there are new vids is like using a slingshot to light a match head at 20 yds in the dark. From this vid it sounds like I've missed a lot from you two. Congrats on the marriage btw.
Wow you guys have been springtime busy! 🤗 Looking us so cool and not sure what you're feeding him but wowsers has he grown! 😊 The way Jonas holds him you can tell he'll make a fine daddy one day 🥰
Your cat looked super chilled! Bet Silvia is thinking what have I gotten myself into, when I met him he had awesome airplane and he is going places but now he has a swather! Wow what's next pig farm!!!!! Lol
Yo Jonas- I can totally relate; in the early 1980's I was driving my VW on I-5/late at night and...saw sparks/flames from the Left rear. Then I saw my FORMERLY Left rear tire depart the hub/axle, race along the lane divider ahead of me, grinding down to a halt, minus the lower third of my shock, engine pan, etc. EVERYBODY told me "that's impossible, it can't happen". And HAPPEN- it did. EVERYBODY said the nuts were reverse threaded- to prevent that from happening. It DID.
love it, "Farmer Jonas" :{) May God bless your crops! ya know, you'll never live that name down now, so you better just get the vinyl ordered for the planes, piloted by "The Magnificent Flying Farmer Jonas"
Hauled a Sikorsky helicopter sorta like that swather when I was in flight school back in the 80's. We put the trailing wheel in the bed of a pickup and towed it on it's front wheels. Every now and then we had to dodge a traffic light and a low bridge but we made it to our location. Sketchy wasn't the word.
Clearly it was the, "Oh Man, Comeon." that got it to start., but I didn't hear a, "That things not going anywhere." when you put on the hitch. So learning...
Other names: 1. Darth Vader - aka, “Luke I am your Swather” 2. George Clooney - ie “oh swather, where art thou?” Answer: I’m in your neighbors yard, and I have road signs stuck in my teeth. 3. Swather of the Lithuanian bride. 4. Arnold Swathanegger - way past it’s ‘heyday’ but still a machine that can kick your ass!
OK. Several tips, make sure the blades on your mower are sharp (think angle grinder) takes a lot less horsepower with sharp blades. Get yourself some spare blades they will break or wear out so have a supply of them. You will need a field tool kit because stuff will break when you are out in the field and need it the most. Also make sure you have a supply of spare belts. get a grease gun if you don't already have one. that will keep things from wearing and breaking. Since you are doing the Green Acres thing you need to put in a garden. Learn to can and have a big freezer way cheaper and better than store bought food. I don't know if your little garden tractor has enough PTO horse power to run the bailer. That needs to be checked out straight away. It is hard work but you will live much better than the city folks. Keep up the good work.
You are definitely going to need a nice new straw hat. The name of your new swather should be Wandering Willy, because it proved to be a wandering on the way home already. Cheers from Winnipeg.
Well Jonas you are totally screwed now, aircraft hangar full of farm implements and future projects…. But a man cave full of cool projects is what tickles your creative aspirations….. Keep your dreams and your reality…. Capt Chris
ARRRHHHHH !!!!!! RIGHT this is the plan since you are all over the place !!!! No1, finish hanger. No2, get on with DEFIANCE. THATS THE GAME PLAN. FINISH. Nothing else !!! Love from New Zealand. Got the message now???? ARRRRRRFHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice score, Jonas! You've got the same luck I've got - "Please don't go in THAT house" ... and it goes towards the house! 🤣 Glad it didn't end up costing you. Up here in MA if that happened at a house like that, the neighbors would've called the cops immediately, and the owner of the house would've tried to extort as much money out of you as possible for landscaping and repairs. It's a different world out here in so many ways, none of them necessarily good! 😁 I bought a 1967 International Harvester 3414 diesel backhoe ... and trailered all 10k+ pounds of it to my house 7 miles up the road. It was frightening. I couldn't go over 20, and I had a line of cars a mile long behind me. I had to duck off and take a backroad. WAY too much for my little half ton! It was big-time tail heavy, thanks to the backhoe assembly. It would wag over 20! Just glad I made it home without passing any cops. 😂 Oh, and I can't believe how BIG the kitty got!!! He was just a kitten last time I saw him!
I used to drive one. It was the biggest peace of s--t you could imagine. I prefer the trailed version pulled by my tractor. Just don't drive down hill. My boss nearly killed himself. Another hundred yards and he could have hit some pedestrians. We used it to cut oil seed rape (rape seed). They just spray it and combine it now. It's a lot easier and safer. 😊
