As a city boy I can tell you that we all secretly know that the people who feed us deal with reality at a much higher level that we ever could. Thanks for the reality lesson 101!
Another story like yours from my friend farmer:we were baling hay whith his 436 NH baler alongside an old fence in a field;a ''T"" bar post cut by the fourwheelers that passes in the field went through the baler ,bent the hammer and knife and busted out the left side panel...junk baler like yours...he had to finish the field (and the hay season )with the round baler!
It happens... BIL was telling me about a rock going through one of the new Single Tine Separator (STS) Deere combines a few years back-- yeah, the name fit because there was only a single tine left in the machine when the rock came out the back-- it spit all the other tines out with it. Luckily we don't have rocks in the fields here on the Gulf Coast-- you don't even hit gravel til you dig down about 20 feet. At my BIL's place in Indiana he's got some BIG rocks in the field. REALLY gotta watch picking corn and harvesting soybeans! BIL told me another story from when he was a kid or young guy... a neighbor had a new Deere combine, maybe a 6600 or 6620, might have been older, can't recall. Anyway, he was combining in a wet fall and buried the machine. Got the big tractor down there and chained off to the rear axle of the combine, and started pulling hard to pull the combine out, and the combine broke in half. Guy went home and shot himself. Stuff can be replaced, people can't. Keep it insured and do whatcha gotta do. Later! OL J R :)
Looks like a design defect. The baler is missing a sensor for hard / heavy / solid material. For the cost of the machine ultrasound or radar would be cheap to add. But then they wouldn't sell as many balers. Rocks in fields it'll never happen !
Silage contractor near us went to forage grass near the sea. Rake man heard a bang so he went out and there it was, a cubic foot stone lucky he was the one who found it and not the self propelled forager. No one could understand how the mower didn't get damaged.
Sorry to hear about the loss good thing for insurance my house got struck by lightning so I feel you kinda with dealing with insurance. Glad you got another baler sucks its so far away.
onelonleyfarmer i know this video is really old but we have three old 4x4 balers and something just like this happened to one and we got her straightend out eventually but we had two more balers going in the mean time so it is nice having a spare but you made the right choice with the new new holland. from what i have seen they are very reliable. i want one soo bad but they dont make a 4x4.
@PierreaSweedieCat it was odd that it did not break a shear bolt i have broken them before and no big deal to put a new one in.it is not a fun time rite now but i will get buy ok.
Holy crap, There isnt enough left of that baler to use it for parts. I would go with the used baler and new tractor option, You can NEVER have too many tractors!
I just fixed knife damage in my Hesston small square baler caused by an old horseshoe that the rake must have pulled into the windrow. There hasn't been a horse in these fields since before WWII.
this guy is a screen farmer lol he does not understand that even if i did walk the 2700 acres you can still miss rocks and sticks and old chunks of iron that where left from other farmers..
Wouldn't thought those tines would have picks up that rock An surly would have thought that the shear bolt would have broke before cuasing that much damage Sometimes life just sucks I feel your pain though I just spun a rod bearing in one of my tractors
Seen someone mentioned keeping the rock. Reminds me of a man who got speared against a bale by his tractor and silage grab while cutting the plastic wrap off, they had to surgically remove it from around his pelvis. Don't worry he was back on the tractor in a week ;) the paramedics visited him and he asked for the spike back, they asked if he was going to keep it as a memento. Hes said no I want to put it back on the grab. Lol
G'day Lonley. Why a New Holland. Was price the deciding factor or did it do a better job than anything else in it's price bracket. as usual a good vid.
OUCH that looks expencive! i hope you have some kind of insurance on your equiptment to cover such accidents. damn that sure must have thrown a wrench in your day
And even if you did walk all the fields you still wouldn't know you caught every stone, where I work they can't even be trusted to bring all of the cows out of the fields, and they're a little bit bigger than stones. And if the stone was in the middle of the row and not visible you can hardly go around checking all of it. But anyway, good luck with your baling and hope you get it in OK.
Shatted jumping desiccated carnubillations! Well, you got my sympathy & empathy. I'm in hard times too, so can't help. I can teach you some nice real French swearwords, if you think that'll help. This certainly sucks. Hope the Insur'ce comes through. Maybe you can make 50 cents of the salvage value? I can't understand it. I thought all these big machines had "safeties" which would cause a shut down before a rock did that much damage. Mind you, the size of that rock, that's a paving stone!
YUPP rock paper scissors, rock won. I'd paint letters on it , this rock killed a giant and cost a $100,000 to replace. Wow really sucks , need some kind of rock finder when planting. Usually they eat your mower don't they.
You are kidding right? Are you a real farmer? I know it's impossible to walk your finds and find all the debris especially if it's leased land. You are in a dream world my friend
As a city boy I can tell you that we all secretly know that the people who feed us deal with reality at a much higher level that we ever could. Thanks for the reality lesson 101!
Another story like yours from my friend farmer:we were baling hay whith his 436 NH baler alongside an old fence in a field;a ''T"" bar post cut by the fourwheelers that passes in the field went through the baler ,bent the hammer and knife and busted out the left side panel...junk baler like yours...he had to finish the field (and the hay season )with the round baler!
@AD4203 the hay was a little damp i think the rock flipped into the hay and was kinda pinched in the windrow and it just followed the hay rite in .
You must have a hell of a pickup to grab that big ole rock. That's one expensive rock!
It happens...
BIL was telling me about a rock going through one of the new Single Tine Separator (STS) Deere combines a few years back-- yeah, the name fit because there was only a single tine left in the machine when the rock came out the back-- it spit all the other tines out with it. Luckily we don't have rocks in the fields here on the Gulf Coast-- you don't even hit gravel til you dig down about 20 feet. At my BIL's place in Indiana he's got some BIG rocks in the field. REALLY gotta watch picking corn and harvesting soybeans!
BIL told me another story from when he was a kid or young guy... a neighbor had a new Deere combine, maybe a 6600 or 6620, might have been older, can't recall. Anyway, he was combining in a wet fall and buried the machine. Got the big tractor down there and chained off to the rear axle of the combine, and started pulling hard to pull the combine out, and the combine broke in half. Guy went home and shot himself.
Stuff can be replaced, people can't. Keep it insured and do whatcha gotta do.
Later! OL J R :)
you sure the deer hunters didn't lay the stone in the windrow ? we have trouble with deer hunters here in michigan also....
Wow... That bailer is toast..... I am surprised a shear pin on the flywheel did not break... I'm sure the one on the PTO did.
By time your got done laying out the damage from that one rock I was ready to cry!
Looks like a design defect.
The baler is missing a sensor for hard / heavy / solid material.
For the cost of the machine ultrasound or radar would be cheap to add.
But then they wouldn't sell as many balers.
Rocks in fields it'll never happen !
Silage contractor near us went to forage grass near the sea. Rake man heard a bang so he went out and there it was, a cubic foot stone lucky he was the one who found it and not the self propelled forager. No one could understand how the mower didn't get damaged.
Farmer mowed it himself
Sorry to hear about the loss good thing for insurance my house got struck by lightning so I feel you kinda with dealing with insurance. Glad you got another baler sucks its so far away.
onelonleyfarmer i know this video is really old but we have three old 4x4 balers and something just like this happened to one and we got her straightend out eventually but we had two more balers going in the mean time so it is nice having a spare but you made the right choice with the new new holland. from what i have seen they are very reliable. i want one soo bad but they dont make a 4x4.
@PierreaSweedieCat it was odd that it did not break a shear bolt i have broken them before and no big deal to put a new one in.it is not a fun time rite now but i will get buy ok.
Holy crap, There isnt enough left of that baler to use it for parts.
I would go with the used baler and new tractor option, You can NEVER have too many tractors!
I just fixed knife damage in my Hesston small square baler caused by an old horseshoe that the rake must have pulled into the windrow. There hasn't been a horse in these fields since before WWII.
so adding rocks to the hay to get your tonnage/acre up is a no-go?
this guy is a screen farmer lol he does not understand that even if i did walk the 2700 acres you can still miss rocks and sticks and old chunks of iron that where left from other farmers..
Wouldn't thought those tines would have picks up that rock An surly would have thought that the shear bolt would have broke before cuasing that much damage Sometimes life just sucks I feel your pain though I just spun a rod bearing in one of my tractors
there was some bangin id say hard look..... love if every farmer wud do a quick walk aronud bet it was on the headland
Seen someone mentioned keeping the rock. Reminds me of a man who got speared against a bale by his tractor and silage grab while cutting the plastic wrap off, they had to surgically remove it from around his pelvis. Don't worry he was back on the tractor in a week ;) the paramedics visited him and he asked for the spike back, they asked if he was going to keep it as a memento. Hes said no I want to put it back on the grab. Lol
That was on that BBC Program called close call's wasn't it?
7930james it was some kind of 999 rescue program
Oh, I swear it was Close call's because I watched it a few days ago :p
7930james was there a man who fell when he was climbing?
Arwel Davies Yes that was it aswell.
G'day Lonley. Why a New Holland. Was price the deciding factor or did it do a better job than anything else in it's price bracket. as usual a good vid.
That must have left some awesome marks on the rock! Make a video showing the marks on the rock.
How high did you jump when it went bang
pretty sure I saw this baler at a used equipment lot a couple years ago.
And on the 3rd day god invented insurance lol
OUCH that looks expencive! i hope you have some kind of insurance on your equiptment to cover such accidents. damn that sure must have thrown a wrench in your day
Will insurance cover that or is it even worth repairing?
And even if you did walk all the fields you still wouldn't know you caught every stone, where I work they can't even be trusted to bring all of the cows out of the fields, and they're a little bit bigger than stones. And if the stone was in the middle of the row and not visible you can hardly go around checking all of it. But anyway, good luck with your baling and hope you get it in OK.
That must have made one heck of a clatter
whats the water tank on top of the baler for?
Good luck with the insurance and also for the insurance , when it rain it pours or just plan s**ks.
Is there any built in safety devises that can prevent this from happening ?
Man I hit a rock like that with a old John Deere sqaure baler and we junked it out theres nothing thats gonna fix that but insurance.
what did you do with the baler
Shatted jumping desiccated carnubillations! Well, you got my sympathy & empathy. I'm in hard times too, so can't help. I can teach you some nice real French swearwords, if you think that'll help. This certainly sucks. Hope the Insur'ce comes through. Maybe you can make 50 cents of the salvage value? I can't understand it. I thought all these big machines had "safeties" which would cause a shut down before a rock did that much damage. Mind you, the size of that rock, that's a paving stone!
"Sir, can we see you aggregate mining permit" :^) Atleast it was'nt The Rock from WWF.
Nice field apple that sucks
Ouch sorry to see that hope everything works out.
wow thats a hell of a lot of damage. well. rough!
And keep us updated Wes !
That sucks.. hope everything all works out
Then what happend to the deal with nh baler?
Blame the bailer for you trying to get it to eat rocks
That sucks im sorry for all the trouble you have been having lately man..
YUPP rock paper scissors, rock won. I'd paint letters on it , this rock killed a giant and cost a $100,000 to replace. Wow really sucks , need some kind of rock finder when planting. Usually they eat your mower don't they.
the full 65 grand?
it was worth 65 thousand to me and yes they paid
Sorry to hear man.
If uoud known what was comin youda gotten the used baler snd tractor huh
Even in the face of adversity you still professional and have that lets move forward and fix this.
I'm so confused how can u pay 80k - 150k for a baler at 40.00 a bale tops. Im happy with a 2k massey ferguson 12 baler lol
he is getting 70 a bale
Awsome
damn sex stones
You are kidding right? Are you a real farmer? I know it's impossible to walk your finds and find all the debris especially if it's leased land. You are in a dream world my friend
aw,you don't need a new baler! that'l buff out!
at least youve got hay were burning up here good luck tho
nothing but the shear bolts,whitch didn't do their job.
foreign object = insurance i hope
hope everything works out in the end
mount that rock on the wall for a trophy
Rocks with do that.
that rock looks like a chunk of concrete
Tell me you have "rock ingestion insurance" on your policy.....
dominos its like that on my farm exept its with batteries.
@bchs98 preservitive
you've been having a lot of shit luck, tractor burns, 2 bent rakes, now the baler. i think something is trying to tell you something
no its a fucking rock
Son of a bitch should have took some shear bolts before it let the rock damage the baler so bad
Just buff it out Wes.
get a john deere baler mate