Sunday night my brother and I were baling some grass hay out of a pasture I got for a case of beer. Some really nice Timothy and other grasses, and a small amount of alfalfa and clover as well.
It was getting late and we were trying to finish baling before the rain was to come the next morning. The pickup on his NH compact 65 (he had it down the road already, so we used his instead of dragging more equipment down the road) was slipping because of a furrow and the teeth were hitting the ground. I got off, lifted the pickup to pull in the hay, then was getting back on the wagon as he started to move forward.
I think he popped the clutch a little and then the pickup stopped right away again, so he jammed on the brakes. At this point I had only 1 foot on the wagon as I was stepping up and had just gotten my weight overcenter of my foot. I went flying backwards and hit the back of my head, my back, and my left elbow on the baler, the toungue, the wagon, or a combination of it all. I opened up my head a little and my elbow still hurts 4 days later. I took Monday off from work, finished baling thew hay because the rain never came, and then we mowed 2 loads of straw and 2 1/2 of hay.
No stitches, but I can now feel 2 nice scabs on the back of my head. Worse part for me is that they're right where my welding helmet clamps on my head. Hard to do my job (part of it is the occasional welding job) when I can't put my helmet on.
One load of straw was mini (and I mean MINI) bales so we got a kicker wagon and I reached over the gate of the wagon to the chute of the baler in the field and threw them over my head. I guess I'm a model '84 baler thrower.... We made about 150 bales that are maybe 2' long, and then we shortened it some more and made another 150 or so bales around 8-14".
We lengthened it out again for the horse hay. His Oliver 550 on the baler worked pretty good. Was able to go in 3rd and you heard the engine grunt on every stroke. The bales are 2" narrower and 2" shorter than a normal bale. I think that makes it a 12"x14" bale. When I was putting the second bale up on the wagon, I could really tell it was 4" lower than it should've been...
Donovan from Wisconsin
It was getting late and we were trying to finish baling before the rain was to come the next morning. The pickup on his NH compact 65 (he had it down the road already, so we used his instead of dragging more equipment down the road) was slipping because of a furrow and the teeth were hitting the ground. I got off, lifted the pickup to pull in the hay, then was getting back on the wagon as he started to move forward.
I think he popped the clutch a little and then the pickup stopped right away again, so he jammed on the brakes. At this point I had only 1 foot on the wagon as I was stepping up and had just gotten my weight overcenter of my foot. I went flying backwards and hit the back of my head, my back, and my left elbow on the baler, the toungue, the wagon, or a combination of it all. I opened up my head a little and my elbow still hurts 4 days later. I took Monday off from work, finished baling thew hay because the rain never came, and then we mowed 2 loads of straw and 2 1/2 of hay.
No stitches, but I can now feel 2 nice scabs on the back of my head. Worse part for me is that they're right where my welding helmet clamps on my head. Hard to do my job (part of it is the occasional welding job) when I can't put my helmet on.
One load of straw was mini (and I mean MINI) bales so we got a kicker wagon and I reached over the gate of the wagon to the chute of the baler in the field and threw them over my head. I guess I'm a model '84 baler thrower.... We made about 150 bales that are maybe 2' long, and then we shortened it some more and made another 150 or so bales around 8-14".
We lengthened it out again for the horse hay. His Oliver 550 on the baler worked pretty good. Was able to go in 3rd and you heard the engine grunt on every stroke. The bales are 2" narrower and 2" shorter than a normal bale. I think that makes it a 12"x14" bale. When I was putting the second bale up on the wagon, I could really tell it was 4" lower than it should've been...
Donovan from Wisconsin
