first time for that job.....not a fun one!

Sparktrician · Oct 6, 2014

We are chopping corn silage, and everything was going good yesterday and Saturday...till yesterday afternoon. The Badger wagon broke the web chain, actually the front center sprocket broke loose, then the chains broke.....then, our Arts way wagon broke a hub.....right as I pulled out on the road....got that fixed this morning, and almost got the badger pitched out.....that was a bear of a job.....oh well.....part of the joys I guess.

MSS3020 · Oct 6, 2014

Mine was manure spreader with ripe goat stuff and on the first spread chain broke on the rear thrower which went into the main drive chain and threw it.. NICE trying to move sprockets and stuff to try and get everything hooked up..ya gotta laugh!!

Ron Anderson · Oct 6, 2014

Sounds like normal farming to me. If it went to smooth we wouldn't appreciate the days of no break-downs.

rrlund · Oct 6, 2014

It was Sunday wasn't it? I made up my mind that after all the Sundays I've worked this year,planting corn,haying,I wasn't gonna chop at all on Sunday this year. I could have been a day closer to being done if I had chopped a week ago yesterday when the weather was nice,but given the track record for trying to chop on Sunday in past years,I'd say I probably wouldn't even be half done yet for all the things I would have broke.
All I did yesterday was grind a load of feed,but even then,a bolt came out of the drawbar and I dropped the feed grinder tongue in the mud while I was trying to fill a creep feeder. That was the only warning sign I needed not to try to haul manure too.

rrlund · Oct 6, 2014

I broke the one in my big tandem New Idea Friday with a big load of two thirds composted corn stalk bedding manure. I got about 80% of it dipped back out with the loader,but the wife and I had to get in there and finish it out with a fork and shovel.
I had to get under the front and take an idler/tensioner off to weld a piece of threaded rod on because I turned too short with the duals on this spring and broke the end off. While I was getting manure in my eyes,hair,face and down my neck,I sure was wishing the wife's boneheaded relatives who think they want to be farmers were here. I'd have loved to have shoved one of them under there and showed them that it doesn't just turn to fairy dust and blow away in a soft summer breeze.

Donald Lehman · Oct 6, 2014

Jeff worked construction for a couple of years and he says he'll take being covered in shi!! any day of the week to being covered in insulation dust. Given that choice, I think I agree. Lol!

rrlund · Oct 6, 2014

Maybe,but city folks who want to grow their own food,so they "know where is came from" need to eat a few pounds of what was falling in my face. lol

Brown Swiss · Oct 6, 2014

Was that the bolt for the roller? If so I have heard of a few of those breaking, so I said not on mine and put a 5/8" u-bolt around it. The roller is still there just in case the u-bolt breaks. The drawbar is stiff now no wiggle.

rrlund · Oct 6, 2014

No,it was one that went up in the bottom on the 1550 where the pin goes through the front of the drawbar. It let the bracket turn on the other bolt so both halves of it separated and the pin fell out. The 1850 has three bolts on there,the 1550 only has two. I was convinced enough that it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't Sunday,that I parked everything for the rest of the day.

Animal · Oct 6, 2014

I hear what your saying about working on Sunday. Call me superstious, or whatever, but it never fails that if I put in a day on Sunday and do not break anything, the world will go to he11 for me on Monday and half the next week.

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