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Michael Soldan

01-17-2006 18:17:07

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Welp so the saying goes. I was cleaning out the cattle shed today and I did something I knew better than to do..overloaded the manure spreader. It had started to rain and I was close to done, just running it off on a pile behind the barn, so I loaded up the mother of all loads figuring I would save some time, I had run off 13 loads and had about three more to do to finish, well sure as guns the spreader started banging and before I could let the feed of a notch Kawham , everything stopped, shut down , got off and there was the drive chain hanging out of the gear box (New Holland#327). Well I knew I had spare repair links and my age started to creep up on me because I couldn't remember where the heck I put them. Finally found a piece of chain off the snowblower and found a repair link on it...wasted 3/4ths of an hour, coulda been done if I had taken 4 loads more instead of three,got done a few minutes before 6, bedded the pen, threw down some hay and put the tractors and spreader in the shed...Haste makes Waste, it did today. I suppose you never did anything like this? ..... Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Dave NE IA

01-18-2006 18:03:28

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Like I always say it ain't what you get in the spreader it's what you get on it that counts. (Storytime) Two of my friends pulled into the neighbors driveway as he was fixing the web in the spreader. About 20 below zero, and the guy had a attitude. Well as he was putting the chain together they both started to remark--That he had missed the front sproket--and of course would have to redo if he got the chain together) When they first started to remark he cut them both off with the comment HELP I NEED __ADVISE I DON"T NEED---so they left. I use that line alot when I know I'm wrong. So anyway you know tommorow will probably be a better day! Dave NE IA

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Martin Reece

01-18-2006 13:23:01

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Sorry about your luck. Hope your not going to get that snowstorm as you will be taking the link off the spreader to blow snow. LOL! Tomorrow is another day. Regards Martin

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F-Dean

01-18-2006 12:03:15

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Broke the drawbar on our M once being in too much of a hurry with a two-wheeled manure spreader. Dad was NOT pleased!

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JohnG(TX)

01-18-2006 11:37:49

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Good judgement comes from bad experiences, and bad experiences come from bad judgement. Ask me how I know....

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Dellbertt

01-18-2006 08:46:44

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

It"s sundown and I"m dog tired and decide I"ve had enough but figure I"ll make one more round and call it a day. It"s always on that "one more round" that I hit a root with the plow or a rock with the disc or blow a hose or cylinder or something breaks somewhere. Don"t know what it is about that ,one more round, but it always seems to happen that way.

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Hugh MacKay

01-18-2006 02:34:19

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Michael: Yes, many times but one that stands out in my mind was an older gentleman in our community. He was known to be quite frugal as well as being careful. No one would ever thought of him as being rough with his tractor or any other machine for that matter.

I was at the local welding shop one day when Lawerence came in with the front axle off his 8N in two pieces, not where it was supposed to come apart, but rather broken in two at the pivot in the center. The shop operator couldn't resist and asked, "Lawerence how did you ever do that." Lawerence's reply, "Trying to haul the last two loads of fire wood in one load."

Your not the first Michael, it's been going on since man got his first tractor, maybe I should say machine.

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Jimmy King

01-18-2006 02:32:45

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Mike you were lucky I always broke the conveyer chain. Jim

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McDiesel

01-17-2006 22:11:15

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Ya been there done that too. I don't worry about over loading or a broken web any more. I have a Knight pro twin slinger now. This is one awsum spreader. The only bad thing is it takes power to run it.

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P Backus

01-17-2006 22:19:04

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to McDiesel, 01-17-2006 22:11:15

Hey McDiesel! Haven"t seen you on here in a while.
I know you"ve got plenty of power to run that Knight with that 806 turbo monster up front! LOL!
Paul

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K.B.-826

01-17-2006 21:46:29

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Mike, you're lucky it was just a drive chain. Some of those NH spreaders have way too small wheel bearings. Used to have a NH 680, can't even tell you how many wheel bearings failed on that one. Of course, they only fail way out in the field with a full load on. I will admit that 680 was a little too small for what we needed, never really overloaded it, but was probably loaded to it's maximum capacity 90% of the time. Got a NH 195 now, which is almost too big, but should last forever hauling the same size loads the 680 did.

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old

01-17-2006 21:09:38

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Yep get in a hurry, don't look twice before doing some thing, or try to cut corner and it will kick you in the but every time and thats when your lucky. Other times it will kick you in the but and cost you an arm and leg to fix

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Aberdale Farm

01-17-2006 18:22:39

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Michael Soldan, 01-17-2006 18:17:07

Been there, done worse. I have overloaded my spreader on several occasions. Usually just because I want to make fewer trips. More than once I have broken a floor chain because the spreader was heaped full. The only fix is to shovel off the full load, crawl underneath, rethread the chain and replace the broken links. Pretty stinky job.

Dale

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504

01-17-2006 20:15:08

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Re: Haste makes waste in reply to Aberdale Farm, 01-17-2006 18:22:39

I was working for a gentleman my Jr. year of high school, over loaded the spreader and broke the drag chain, scooped it off. He got home in time to chew me out for loading it too heavy(wet sawdust and --- from feed lot)We fixed the chain and loaded it again,I stopped loading and He told me to put on two more buckets,He scooped that load by himself.

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