Mastermind Worksaws Finally Gets More Help

[Mastermind]

When I got into a heavy row.........it was dropping bales about every 100'. I love seeing that.

 

[Duane(Pa)]

Man, I'm glad for ya' And that fresh hay smell

 

[Dieselshawn]

Hmmm.... I don't think monkey and hay go together..... Especially with that gun..... The hay would go up in flames at the first shot....

 

[Paragon Builder]

Oh baby........she's baling hay. I had to adjust the twine fingers, and we tightened up the wipers till they were just barely touching. After a few funky bales it started dropping out nicely tied ones.

There's no feeling quite like seeing a project come to fruition! And it seems as if the advice here has been quite helpful.
Simply awesome!

 

[Chris J.]

I have a stupid question. These days do folks still load bales of hay by hand (obviously not the huge round bales), or it mostly mechanized?

My father used load bales by hand. As a 17 year old he was 5' 9", 165 pounds, & had a 28" waist (according to my mother). And he ate very well--old fashioned Southern homemade cooking--living on a farm. Very little money, but plenty of food.

 

[Mastermind]

There's no feeling quite like seeing a project come to fruition! And it seems as if the advice here has been quite helpful.
Simply awesome!

Helpful? I'd say. Now why could I have gotten this thing done without help from members here, and on Sawhogs. One of their members sent me part of the driveshaft that was missing.

I have a stupid question. These days do folks still load bales of hay by hand (obviously not the huge round bales), or it mostly mechanized?

My father used load bales by hand. As a 17 year old he was 5' 9", 165 pounds, & had a 28" waist (according to my mother). And he ate very well--old fashioned Southern homemade cooking--living on a farm. Very little money, but plenty of food.

Most people are mechanized, even with the square bales. It's just tough to find people that are willing to work hard these days. We have a hay conveyor to run bales up into the barn loft, but we will still have to pick up and stack by hand.

 

[Magnum783]

Small bales will always sought after. Randy glad to hear your got it working. I know this needs not be said but I will say it anyway. Grease, grease, grease, and more grease. Not too much either just often. Be careful because seals are very easily blown. The plunger bearing is the most often smoked bearing, it does not take a ton just a pump or two every now and then. As I said I am prob singing to the choir.

 

[Magnum783]

Magnum783: I wore my regular hat. I actually prefer tractors without cabs.

I hate A/C. I've found its so much easier to get used to the temperature than to fight it.....

Here's an example in the winter up north.... My personal tractor has no cab either and I blow snow for customers...

This pic is after 4 hours of clearing snow. Only lumber jacket, jeans and snowmobile boots.

That's at -20°c or -4°f.....

Heck yeah man, I am much the same I don't have a single tractor that I use for utility work that has a cab. Even took the cab off my skid steer. Now the one my parents farm with that's a different story air ride seat is not in heard of.

 

[Mastermind]

We just baled another 50 bales with it. It's working perfectly.

 

[olyman]

We just baled another 50 bales with it. It's working perfectly.

cant be.. more than a few on here,,said youd never be able to fix it........................... right............

 

[MKF]

Not just any grease.... But Motul 800 grease!

 

[chris zautner]

Did someone say hay? These pictures were taken over a period of a couple days

 

[Greenthorn]

Oh man, just talking about hay, makes me itch....it is chigger galore here. Guess you guys don't have chiggers in Tennessee?

 

[chris zautner]

I have heard of thoose things never had them here though. I do small square bales too.

Oh man, just talking about hay, makes me itch....it is chigger galore here. Guess you guys don't have chiggers in Tennessee?

 

[weimedog]

Quit doing square bales when the kids up and left to start their lives almost ten years ago now. So now its my neighbor, my wife and I who put up around 450 round bales a year. 200 in my barn and 200 in the neighbors and the rest of the "lower" quality hay in the hedgerow. Might do another cutting to sell. I have 100 acres in hay and the neighbor around 30. Have to sell 15 cows to get to our "winter" number.. Honesty sometimes think selling the entire herd (All beefers) is a good idea! More time to build saws!

 

[taplinhill]

I'll jealous of all the flat fields I'm seeing. Haying might have been more fun in fields that weren't steep, full of stones and wet.

 

[Mastermind]

I'll jealous of all the flat fields I'm seeing. Haying might have been more fun in fields that weren't steep, full of stones and wet.

Right there with you........we don't have much flat ground here at all.

 

[chris zautner]

I don't like that hay field we were on there is wash outs that you can't see until your right in front of it and there is some wash outs that could swallow the front end of a car

 

[jerrycmorrow]

We just baled another 50 bales with it. It's working perfectly.

need pix

 

[Mastermind]

need pix

How about a couple of pics of it with hay in the chute?