Combining and baling

jon f mn

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Spent the weekend combining oats and barley and baling straw. Combining went well except for a bit of trouble chasing down a loose wire in the ignition. Yields were not great, about 50 bu/acre. But it was too wet first then dry when it was heading out, so I'm not too disappointed.

Baling went well til the last load when the shear pun on the needle arm broke and busted a needle. A little welding and I was back in business. Got almost 600 bales in the barn and I'll round bale the rest.

 

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RJKeith

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Always like your pictures!

 

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flying belgian

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Doesn't the baler have a plunger stop?

 

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jon f mn

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• Sep 6, 2022

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The plunger is not what breaks the needles as they are slotted, ts the hay in front of the plunger that does it. And yest the stops were working.

 

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chcase

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Always enjoy your pictures of the case combine doing its job and case equipement at work.I owned a case 200 baler and it never missed a bale in 8 years of use.

 

Loosehandle

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Wisconsin

• Sep 6, 2022

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Nice! What do you do with your oats, there isn't any elevator that buys them here

 

Tgrasher

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South Southern illinois

• Sep 6, 2022

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Takes me back 63 years. Thanks for the pictures.

 

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jon f mn

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• Sep 6, 2022

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I feed them mostly, but there is an old time feeed mill locally that buys them and I will sell a load this year.

 

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jddrawbar

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Combine did a nice clean job....thanks for posting.

 

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Billy NY

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Looks like nice grain, overall nice crop considering the straw. I have not been involved with planting and harvesting oats/straw since '09. I think the last crop here was '10. We did ok with it, grain was all sold, crops were always decent and the straw, typically was the profit and it sold at a respectable price considering what goes into it. Decent straw in this area, no matter what feed store or other is selling it can definitely command a premium, it was always more than the best hay we could round or small square bale. Nice to see your posts, lot of variety at your new place (well not so new anymore I guess).

Photo of a great memory of the last crop I was involved with here:

 

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Erik Ks farmer

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Been wondering how things were going in your kingdom. Thanks for the pics, I always enjoy them.

 

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flying belgian

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• Sep 6, 2022

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Not to nit pick but I don't see how that could happen. The plunger is holding the hay back while the needles come up[ and go back down. Contrary to what some people think, the needles do not poke through the hay. They go behind the bale through the slots in the plunger. You sure you got the timing right?

 

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jon f mn

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• Sep 6, 2022

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That is correct, but if the needles go up as the plunger is going back the hay in ront of the plunger breaks the needles. If the camber were empty the needles would just go in the slots in the plunger. So ts the hay in front of the slots that breaks the needles. And in this case the plunger stops were working as that is what broke the main shear pin.

 

glennster

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• Sep 6, 2022

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jon, do you sell the barley straw? i have heard if you put barley straw in your pond it keeps the algae down.

 

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GermantownGreen

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Montrose MO

• Sep 6, 2022

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Awesome pics and report of a successful job.
Those wagons are loaded to the hills.
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flying belgian

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• Sep 6, 2022

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but if the needles go up as the plunger is going back ,,,That right there is why I think your timing is off a wee bit. The needles aren't suppose to go up until the plunger is all the way back. There should be no hay in front of the needles as the plunger has it pushed in back of the needles.

 

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jon f mn

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• Sep 7, 2022

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The needles went up because the pin that moves them fell out so there was nothing holding them back.

 

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flying belgian

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• Sep 7, 2022

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Okay. Now I understand what's going on.

 

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jon f mn

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• Sep 7, 2022

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I don't sell unless I gave too much. May sell some this year.