HAND CLUTCH

If you are baling in third gear with a square baler and the going gets tough, you can slip it into neutral between strokes and on into second without ever touching the clutch. When the hay lightens up, you can hit the clutch just after the plunger hits the hay and get right into third gear.

Now we only bale a couple of thousand square bales and the rest are round bales but I'm still stuck using M's. I'm using a SM but bought a 450D two years ago. I thought I'd get it together for last summer, maybe this summer. It's been torn down almost two years. Oh well.

The kid was smart enough to keep his mouth shut, but he still laughs about it. We don't haul gas around when we are haying. Leave the house in the morning and maybe put 5 or 10 gallons in it at noon, and maybe not. Many times he's topped an M off with 10 gallons and says "Whew, 55 gallons a day!"

Our H's are such tea sippers we don't think much about fuel and run out occasionally.

We run a 9 ft haybine, 9 ft sickle, 8 wheel V rake and a 347 JD square baler, and don't know what a tedder is, when the heat hits in OK in August you'd better be baling two hours after you mow or it'll get too dry.