I am electrical and instrumentation or E&I Technician. At least, that what I am called Where I work now. I used to fix factory assembly equipment and program robotic arms. I worked in a garage when I was in high school, changing tires, oil changes, etc. So I have always had mechanical skills. Working on stuff seams to be my calling. But I also like to build and create things. So old farm equipment and Homesteading fit me well.
@@CountryViewAcres I managed the advertising program for a community college that offered an instrumentation program ... There is a Maxwell House coffee plant where I live that makes use of Instrumentation. And you do have a wide range of skills, that's for sure!
Hey Pete, I was just thinking Evan can use the sickle bar to cut fence lines now! I was fascinated how you did it without hitting the teeth on the fenceposts.
Man there is just something about watching you work on old hay equipment that really holds my attention! That’s a great addition to your fleet, can’t wait to see it in action next year!
Thanks Tyler. I have been watching your project on installing the hay feeders. Saw you set the posts in the rain the other day.. Looks like you are close to being finished. I think it will turn out great when you are done.
You had me at Hello! Love projects like this. That said, don't ever....Ever....EVER put your hand in that rope loop if the PTO is running......unless you're ok with Lefty as a new nickname!
No rope loop!! You put the end of ropes like that on the seat and sat on them . That way in an emergency when something happens nin fractions of seconds as the often do,the rope slips harmlessly away and does tear off hands,limbs or the seat pulling you helplessly into what ever machine your pulling.
You can buy and have all the up-to-date equipment, but simplicity of the older equipment is really appealing. Plus it is what I grew up with. Being able to diagnose and manufacture replacement parts is a BIG PLUS. you seem to be in hog heaven finding and working with your relics (not to mention the savings).
Great find Evan!!! My comments are FYI, not in your face. I don't do in your face, there's enough of that in the world as it is. One thing All of those I've seen, we never had one, have a spring "carrier" for the hoses. So they could flex on hard, tight turns. You know leave yourself plenty of swing room or that steel is going to wear down those hoses. You could also use a bicycle inner tube to pad the holder you fabbed. Reminiscing, not critiquing. We always used a sickle bar mower and we hayed two hundred acres. We threw 5,000 square bales in the barn every summer to feed a hundred head through the winters. At least what wasn't sold or went in the freezer An old ford 2000, sickle mower, new holland baler and rake, pieced together or borrowed wagons and four sons and two grandsons. May papaw believed in work and he always told my uncles Boys, only way out, is to get it in the barn... and ready or not, away we'd go LOL Love the memories your channel brings back. My papaw was, is and always will be my hero. Farming is a lot of work, but it wasn't work to me I was with the man who taught me more about being a man, without saying much about it, than anyone.
Evan ! Well done my friend ! been watching you for a long time now and you remind me of days gone by for my past... it is so true that work is never done on a ranch... and you have to be a jack of all trades to make it work ! then you need to become a Veterinarian...to keep the Critters in good health... I'ed say you have to watch for a bobcat or Lynx with your Turkeys... you won't discourage them, they have to be killed unfortunately. if you don't have a 12 gauge shotgun with 00 buck and slugs you need one out there... you never know what will come walking out of the woods ! even if you never need it.... it's there if you do. not to mention putting a large animal down out of necessity... not something you want to trust to a .22 rifle. I am really happy for you to have gotten that mower... as the Sycle bar mower sucked ! your getting there.... a few more years and you can retire ! keep it up ! and resist the urge to go buy a expensive new truck.... the payments are killers ! if you can't pay it off in a year you don't need it ! ... YOU NEED A Old Logan Lathe like mine I have a logan 922 and it changed my life ! at the Ranch I bought a 3 in 1 Mill Drill lathe and that really helped alot ! got it from Harbor freight.... and for farm equipment it is the absolutely needed piece of equipment for the shop you have a mig welder I see, but you need a AC/DC stick welder so you can weld cast iron ! (tractor housings do brake!) be sure to pre-heat though ! I wish I was there to give you a hand at times LOL i feel for ya ! but keep it up it looks like a never ending struggle at times...and it is. but there is light at the end of the tunnel ! and retiring early worked for me... gave me a bunch more time on the Ranch and things actually got done cheaply !
My Dad had this machine. Retired at age 80. Couple years after he asked me to do hay at the farm. Your pic brings back! The feed is extremely important. You’ll have more time off the tractor. I’d buy a new sickle as well. Mowed half acre, and the broke in middle. Half day drive for parts. Yup hate wet! Having fun😎. Nice pole barn👍
We have and used a Hesston 1110 for years prior to our discbine purchase. In spite of the new technology, they are still very effective. We are bringing back to life our Hesston. Ours has intermeshing steel on rubber rollers. Good luck!
it is not supposed to make a narrow wind roll it should lay it out the way it did but you are correct it needs the angle deflector I have two of those mowers and they do a real good job. Yes both sides need to cover all the moving chains and belts
I concur. The deflectors aren’t supposed to make a windrow. If it did, the hay would take a lot longer to dry. The one on the right is about the same as the one we had on our New Holland Haybine when it was new. Match that in mirror image and declare victory.
Take a part the slip clutch for the reel drive and make sure its not rusted stuck. I broke that cast hub years ago it was expensive and they don't make that part any more. you might have to adjust the springs that help the cutter bar float it should take about 60 pounds of pull to lift the cutter bar. Those are pretty good old units.
Good find. I would suggest replacing all the knife sections and fabing up a skid shoe. You want to cut with it sitting on the shoes and not the hydraulic cylinder. You have a nice place to work on it this winter.
I think that I enjoy your old equipment restoration videos the most of them all. You take a no-nonsense approach to getting the equipment back into a functioning order and that is what the original owners would have done.
Evan. You shouldn’t have to Ted anymore once the hay is crimped If you leave the windrow spread out it will dry faster. But then if you rake it. The leaves will fall off
Congratulations on the haybine. With your Tedder you will be in great shape. Don’t sell your NH sickle, keep it as a backup machine, and a reminder on why you bought that haybine.
Looks like a great find. I think you addressed the major issues. A pair of new deflectors and cutter bar sections will definitely help. And you nailed it on the roller adjustments at least from the look of things. I love projects like this too. Also, love how the JI Case purrs.
A few things, 1. A sickle bar mower when set up properly does great in thick stemmed crops, alfalfa and and clover. However, they can be a real pain cutting bunch grass and thick fescue, but brome and Timothy hay is okay. 2. The haybine may be a little better in the tougher cutting grasses since it has the pick up reel to help feed the hay on through to the crimper rollers. 3. There is no substitute for a good disc mower. After 1 horrible season with my old sickle mower, I bought a new disc mower many years ago and never looked back. Best haying purchase I ever made.
Evan,once you get the bugs worked out of the haybine ,it will serve you for many years to come.Put a good coat of used motor oil on the cutting bar,it will make it perform better.Have a blessed day and stay Safe,my friend.🚜👍👏💯
Hi 😊. It will be a whole new beginning for you to mow grass 👍. Hope you get time to recover it all and give it paint too. Looking forward to following your great project. Sincerely, Lars from Denmark. Ps Google Translate.
The pin where the pull rope attached should have a ring through it then the rope attaches to the ring. Throw all that wet cut grass in your compose pile, that’s some good stuff.
Hi Evan, glad to see you got another piece of equipment to make life easier for you next spring. Hope you got it for a fair price with all the repairs needed and parts that need to be replaced. Good luck with things and looking forward to seeing the repairs. You and Rebekah remind me of myself and my wife, we do almost everything together and I rely on her assistance with projects as you do with Rebekah. So good on you both you work well together.
Don’t want to be negative Evan but it’s still a cycle bar. But you can usually raise and lower then back up to unplug it unless you get into dirt then you’re unplugged it by hand. Those are ant-plug rock guards you’ll like them. Also it’d be much safer to have u-joint covers. I had co-worker have one break on a mower and it killed him.
Looks like a great find! It will make hay cutting next year much more enjoyable. Those old Hesston haybines run great and they were built well, just keep 'em greased!
You can use a one way cylinder, just remove one hose and install a breather. The weight of the head will let the head drop and then you have more than one tractor option. Thanks for sharing, great winter project.
Hi Evan We had one just like the one you have and It worked very well for many years as long as you service it and look after it will out last some of the newer one today. They were well build back then and last for years. I would help my dad work on a lot of the machinery every winter and I even got to paint them just so they looked good. Why buy new when you can most of the time fix the old. If you have time this winter fixing it up, it wouldn't hurt to paint it up some. You got a nice find Evan and hope it works out for you. I enjoy all your videos and I am looking forward to a lot more of them. Stay safe.
What a difference a year makes. Working on this project out of your new pole barn and using your new welding table. It’s got to give you a great feeling of accomplishment. Nice job congratulations. Looking forward to seeing many more projects in your new work shop. Stay safe
Awesome find. See just a little work, and you will be able to cut hay faster, and better. These old hay machine will last a lifetime. Most people want new equipment, but these old ones were made with better steel and parts. Keeping them dry, and off the ground is a great idea. Blessings🙂
Looks like something you can definitely tinker with this winter and have it in ship shape for next hay season. Like watching you fabricate parts to make repairs to the old equipment. Also I'm glad your back making videos, missed them when you were working that long shift. Good job Evan keep them coming and I'll keep watching and enjoying. Take care.
New fun machine! When running old equipment, it's best to have a second old machine as backup so keep your sickle bar mower just in case. Especially when running the stressful hay projects in between rain storms.
nice video, as always, hesston was bought by the italian Fiatagrj, it is normal despite being stopped for many years it still works, as for Fiatagri prerogative, "it must always work in any condition"
That looked so much better, like you said, even as it is, better than the sickle bar mower. With luck you'll get a far cleaner cut, and more hay per acre than before.
JudithB Great project!!! The old equipment seems to be fixable and just keeps on working with some upkeep. New equipment is just not made as sturdy. Having the manuals is a huge bonus too!!!
It is great that you are able to create parts for your equipment repairs. It must save a lot of money. Thanks for sharing your new inter project (one of them I'm sure). Have a Blessed day.
Wow I was looking at another UA-cam that uses old equipment & I was hoping & praying that you would be able to get one like that wow so happy for you 🙏🏼👍💙
Biggest problems with most old equipment that have sat around awhile is bearings and seals. With the haybine you can include u joints as well. Once you've checked them all out and replaced the bad ones, greased everything and sharpened the blades you are set to go.
Hi Evan, Glad you finally found a hay bine. As you repair it, you should take the opportunity of removing all the rust and doing a decent paint job on it. It will last MUCH longer that way. A good project for the wintertime.
Always am impressed with your fabrication and design of parts to make repairs on the equipment. Your welding skills have improved a lot, too. Nice job.
Get it fixed up and actually sharpened and you will be flying around that field. We had a similar looking one and it cut for years. The height adjusters on the bottom make all the difference, I bet you can still get the original ones at the dealer. LOL. Maybee at the aftermarket guys, amasing what you can find in old machinery parts with a deep dive into Google.
Half ton blasting media, 10sq ft of steel, and 10 cases of Rust-Oleum (maybe a tetnus shot) and you'll have it looking and running like new. Good purchase.
I grew up cutting hay with a PT10. My parents had a farm where we raised beefalo in Minnesota. That haybine cut a lot of hay all over our area. The pitman arm was probably the weakest part.
Evan, In a Saw Mill you would be known as a Mill Wright. Am I close?
I am electrical and instrumentation or E&I Technician. At least, that what I am called Where I work now. I used to fix factory assembly equipment and program robotic arms. I worked in a garage when I was in high school, changing tires, oil changes, etc. So I have always had mechanical skills. Working on stuff seams to be my calling. But I also like to build and create things. So old farm equipment and Homesteading fit me well.
@@CountryViewAcres I managed the advertising program for a community college that offered an instrumentation program ... There is a Maxwell House coffee plant where I live that makes use of Instrumentation. And you do have a wide range of skills, that's for sure!
Still working good.
@@CountryViewAcres Thank You. Pleas show how you make the knot on the yellow rope.
a mill wright is a steel mill worker
Hi Evan, glad you found a haybine! Looks like a good winter project and making hay next year will be so much more enjoyable!
G'day Pete. Don't worry I will still come watch you cut hay too 🙃
Hey Pete, I was just thinking Evan can use the sickle bar to cut fence lines now! I was fascinated how you did it without hitting the teeth on the fenceposts.
Hey Pete I Love your Videos!!!!
Treat the rust and that thing will be a work horse for years to come. It doesn't need to be fancy it just needs to do the job.
Man there is just something about watching you work on old hay equipment that really holds my attention! That’s a great addition to your fleet, can’t wait to see it in action next year!
Thanks Tyler. I have been watching your project on installing the hay feeders. Saw you set the posts in the rain the other day.. Looks like you are close to being finished. I think it will turn out great when you are done.
You had me at Hello! Love projects like this. That said, don't ever....Ever....EVER put your hand in that rope loop if the PTO is running......unless you're ok with Lefty as a new nickname!
I'd have gone with a tee handle myself. Easier to let go of.
If we had a loop, it was just to hang the end of the rope on the tractor. Allways grabbed the line across our fingers to pull, never the loop.
No rope loop!! You put the end of ropes like that on the seat and sat on them . That way in an emergency when something happens nin fractions of seconds as the often do,the rope slips harmlessly away and does tear off hands,limbs or the seat pulling you helplessly into what ever machine your pulling.
It's great how you try to rejuvenate the old equipment and keep it going instead of running out and buying new! Keep it up!👍
I LOVVVVVE how you REFURBISH all of your Machinery back to LIFE.
Enjoyed this video. Have a great Tuesday and the rest of your week. Thank you.
It matches the tractors perfectly! Great find!
You can buy and have all the up-to-date equipment, but simplicity of the older equipment is really appealing. Plus it is what I grew up with. Being able to diagnose and manufacture replacement parts is a BIG PLUS. you seem to be in hog heaven finding and working with your relics (not to mention the savings).
My husband loves making parts and doing this same thing too. Thank you.
Evan the Mechanic, strikes again. Great job
I would love repairing and using an old haybine like that. The combination of simplicity yet complexity of a machine like that is fascinating to me.
Think you have a winner here Needs some tlc but should work fine deflectors and shoes and other maintenance should work fine
Good morning from Grand Forks
I'm so happy for you. I have no doubt in my mind that you can fix it 👍
Corpus Christi TX
Great find Evan!!!
My comments are FYI, not in your face.
I don't do in your face, there's enough of that in the world as it is.
One thing
All of those I've seen, we never had one, have a spring "carrier" for the hoses. So they could flex on hard, tight turns.
You know leave yourself plenty of swing room or that steel is going to wear down those hoses. You could also use a bicycle inner tube to pad the holder you fabbed.
Reminiscing, not critiquing.
We always used a sickle bar mower and we hayed two hundred acres. We threw 5,000 square bales in the barn every summer to feed a hundred head through the winters. At least what wasn't sold or went in the freezer An old ford 2000, sickle mower, new holland baler and rake, pieced together or borrowed wagons and four sons and two grandsons.
May papaw believed in work and he always told my uncles
Boys, only way out, is to get it in the barn... and ready or not, away we'd go LOL
Love the memories your channel brings back.
My papaw was, is and always will be my hero.
Farming is a lot of work, but it wasn't work to me
I was with the man who taught me more about being a man, without saying much about it, than anyone.
Once you have the rest sorted it will be awesome
Evan ! Well done my friend ! been watching you for a long time now and you remind me of days gone by for my past... it is so true that work is never done on a ranch... and you have to be a jack of all trades to make it work ! then you need to become a Veterinarian...to keep the Critters in good health... I'ed say you have to watch for a bobcat or Lynx with your Turkeys...
you won't discourage them, they have to be killed unfortunately. if you don't have a 12 gauge shotgun with 00 buck and slugs you need one out there... you never know what will come walking out of the woods ! even if you never need it.... it's there if you do. not to mention putting a large animal down out of necessity... not something you want to trust to a .22 rifle.
I am really happy for you to have gotten that mower... as the Sycle bar mower sucked !
your getting there.... a few more years and you can retire ! keep it up ! and resist the urge to go buy a expensive new truck.... the payments are killers ! if you can't pay it off in a year you don't need it ! ... YOU NEED A Old Logan Lathe like mine I have a logan 922 and it changed my life !
at the Ranch I bought a 3 in 1 Mill Drill lathe and that really helped alot ! got it from Harbor freight.... and for farm equipment it is the absolutely needed piece of equipment for the shop
you have a mig welder I see, but you need a AC/DC stick welder so you can weld cast iron !
(tractor housings do brake!) be sure to pre-heat though ! I wish I was there to give you a hand at times LOL i feel for ya ! but keep it up it looks like a never ending struggle at times...and it is. but there is light at the end of the tunnel ! and retiring early worked for me... gave me a bunch more time on the Ranch and things actually got done cheaply !
a very good purchase , nice winter project
That’s a good improvement to your operation.
My Dad had this machine. Retired at age 80. Couple years after he asked me to do hay at the farm. Your pic brings back! The feed is extremely important. You’ll have more time off the tractor. I’d buy a new sickle as well. Mowed half acre, and the broke in middle. Half day drive for parts. Yup hate wet! Having fun😎. Nice pole barn👍
That Allis starts easy. Turn the key and. BOOM it goes !!!
We have and used a Hesston 1110 for years prior to our discbine purchase. In spite of the new technology, they are still very effective. We are bringing back to life our Hesston. Ours has intermeshing steel on rubber rollers. Good luck!
old fashioned equipment!
It's really good to have the shop and tools to work on your implements. Happy for you. Y'all be good.
it is not supposed to make a narrow wind roll it should lay it out the way it did but you are correct it needs the angle deflector I have two of those mowers and they do a real good job. Yes both sides need to cover all the moving chains and belts
I concur. The deflectors aren’t supposed to make a windrow. If it did, the hay would take a lot longer to dry. The one on the right is about the same as the one we had on our New Holland Haybine when it was new. Match that in mirror image and declare victory.
Take a part the slip clutch for the reel drive and make sure its not rusted stuck. I broke that cast hub years ago it was expensive and they don't make that part any more. you might have to adjust the springs that help the cutter bar float it should take about 60 pounds of pull to lift the cutter bar. Those are pretty good old units.
Good find. I would suggest replacing all the knife sections and fabing up a skid shoe. You want to cut with it sitting on the shoes and not the hydraulic cylinder. You have a nice place to work on it this winter.
I think that I enjoy your old equipment restoration videos the most of them all. You take a no-nonsense approach to getting the equipment back into a functioning order and that is what the original owners would have done.
New to your channel my husband and I are really enjoying your videos
You might put a metal ring in the pull-pin hole and then tie the rope to the ring, getting the rope away from the edge of the pin hole.
Don’t know if you know the saying “can’t make a silk purse out of a pigs ear”, well you sure can. Great job.
Evan. You shouldn’t have to Ted anymore once the hay is crimped
If you leave the windrow spread out it will dry faster. But then if you rake it. The leaves will fall off
great find Evan I think your cutting days will be just a little easier
Congratulations on the haybine. With your Tedder you will be in great shape. Don’t sell your NH sickle, keep it as a backup machine, and a reminder on why you bought that haybine.
Most people would have scrapped that. I was so nice seeing you give it a new life!
Looks like a great find. I think you addressed the major issues. A pair of new deflectors and cutter bar sections will definitely help. And you nailed it on the roller adjustments at least from the look of things. I love projects like this too. Also, love how the JI Case purrs.
Nice score. Oldie but a goodie, lol. Matches your old tractor. 👍🙂
Evan you are a master fabricator good. Job
Great video Evan. I really enjoy that kind of stuff. Thanks
A few things, 1. A sickle bar mower when set up properly does great in thick stemmed crops, alfalfa and and clover. However, they can be a real pain cutting bunch grass and thick fescue, but brome and Timothy hay is okay. 2. The haybine may be a little better in the tougher cutting grasses since it has the pick up reel to help feed the hay on through to the crimper rollers. 3. There is no substitute for a good disc mower. After 1 horrible season with my old sickle mower, I bought a new disc mower many years ago and never looked back. Best haying purchase I ever made.
I love the old case she looks classic. ,!!
I used to cut hay with one of those. Brings back memories.
Evan, Engels coach shop did a video of sickle bar mower repair and it could help tune your mower better
Nice find!
Always amazed at you ability to take old things and fix them. Congratulations on the new purchase.
Evan,once you get the bugs worked out of the haybine ,it will serve you for many years to come.Put a good coat of used motor oil on the cutting bar,it will make it perform better.Have a blessed day and stay Safe,my friend.🚜👍👏💯
An interesting video. We enjoy your videos.
Evan, deflector, skidshoes, & rotating assembly covers
Hi 😊. It will be a whole new beginning for you to mow grass 👍. Hope you get time to recover it all and give it paint too. Looking forward to following your great project. Sincerely, Lars from Denmark. Ps Google Translate.
Excellent most excellent
great video. good luck with your purchase. like the way you and pete film the start of the tractors
Good job Evan, that will make a good winter project, good luck.. thank you for all your great videos.
Sorry I can’t give you any advice, but you don’t need any from me. I am sure you will have it running good as new. God bless.
The pin where the pull rope attached should have a ring through it then the rope attaches to the ring. Throw all that wet cut grass in your compose pile, that’s some good stuff.
Looks like it is something worth repairing. A few new fabricated pieces and some krylon and you're good to go.
Great Buy!
Hi Evan, glad to see you got another piece of equipment to make life easier for you next spring. Hope you got it for a fair price with all the repairs needed and parts that need to be replaced. Good luck with things and looking forward to seeing the repairs. You and Rebekah remind me of myself and my wife, we do almost everything together and I rely on her assistance with projects as you do with Rebekah. So good on you both you work well together.
Looks Great to me !!!
Don’t want to be negative Evan but it’s still a cycle bar. But you can usually raise and lower then back up to unplug it unless you get into dirt then you’re unplugged it by hand. Those are ant-plug rock guards you’ll like them. Also it’d be much safer to have u-joint covers. I had co-worker have one break on a mower and it killed him.
Looks like a great find! It will make hay cutting next year much more enjoyable. Those old Hesston haybines run great and they were built well, just keep 'em greased!
You can use a one way cylinder, just remove one hose and install a breather. The weight of the head will let the head drop and then you have more than one tractor option. Thanks for sharing, great winter project.
Great find!
Hi Evan We had one just like the one you have and It worked very well for many years as long as you service it and look after it will out last some of the newer one today. They were well build back then and last for years. I would help my dad work on a lot of the machinery every winter and I even got to paint them just so they looked good. Why buy new when you can most of the time fix the old. If you have time this winter fixing it up, it wouldn't hurt to paint it up some. You got a nice find Evan and hope it works out for you. I enjoy all your videos and I am looking forward to a lot more of them. Stay safe.
What a difference a year makes. Working on this project out of your new pole barn and using your new welding table. It’s got to give you a great feeling of accomplishment. Nice job congratulations. Looking forward to seeing many more projects in your new work shop. Stay safe
with such a good tool. you realy should take it apart and remove all rust and paint it back up again. :D
Looking forward to future repair videos!
nice metal work
Congratulations on the new equipment. New toys never get's old.
Awesome find. See just a little work, and you will be able to cut hay faster, and better. These old hay machine will last a lifetime. Most people want new equipment, but these old ones were made with better steel and parts. Keeping them dry, and off the ground is a great idea. Blessings🙂
Hi Evan I think that Haybine will work well for you.That case looks good pulling that Haybine
You have yourself another project. Good for you. 🙌🙌
Good morning Evan! Love watching & listening! That will be a great haybinder! A great winter project in your new barn!
Congrat for the new addition.
Looks like something you can definitely tinker with this winter and have it in ship shape for next hay season. Like watching you fabricate parts to make repairs to the old equipment. Also I'm glad your back making videos, missed them when you were working that long shift. Good job Evan keep them coming and I'll keep watching and enjoying. Take care.
I love it!!!!
Love the videos. You genuinely look like you're enjoying yourself and I like seeing journey.
New fun machine! When running old equipment, it's best to have a second old machine as backup so keep your sickle bar mower just in case. Especially when running the stressful hay projects in between rain storms.
nice video, as always, hesston was bought by the italian Fiatagrj, it is normal despite being stopped for many years it still works, as for Fiatagri prerogative, "it must always work in any condition"
That looked so much better, like you said, even as it is, better than the sickle bar mower.
With luck you'll get a far cleaner cut, and more hay per acre than before.
JudithB Great project!!! The old equipment seems to be fixable and just keeps on working with some upkeep. New equipment is just not made as sturdy. Having the manuals is a huge bonus too!!!
It is great that you are able to create parts for your equipment repairs. It must save a lot of money. Thanks for sharing your new inter project (one of them I'm sure). Have a Blessed day.
Deflector…. Forming sheet… same difference 👍🏻 looks like a great find!
Wow I was looking at another UA-cam that uses old equipment & I was hoping & praying that you would be able to get one like that wow so happy for you 🙏🏼👍💙
Biggest problems with most old equipment that have sat around awhile is bearings and seals. With the haybine you can include u joints as well. Once you've checked them all out and replaced the bad ones, greased everything and sharpened the blades you are set to go.
Hi Evan, I loved the video on the hay binder, You can fix anything.
GOOD ONE, STAY SAFE
Hi Evan,
Glad you finally found a hay bine. As you repair it, you should take the opportunity of removing all the rust and doing a decent paint job on it. It will last MUCH longer that way. A good project for the wintertime.
Always am impressed with your fabrication and design of parts to make repairs on the equipment. Your welding skills have improved a lot, too. Nice job.
Great find, should make things easier for you
A good winter job add to you list
Get it fixed up and actually sharpened and you will be flying around that field. We had a similar looking one and it cut for years. The height adjusters on the bottom make all the difference, I bet you can still get the original ones at the dealer. LOL. Maybee at the aftermarket guys, amasing what you can find in old machinery parts with a deep dive into Google.
I always enjoy your videos..I like how you troubleshoot the problems then fix them..I’m very impressed with your abilities.
Half ton blasting media, 10sq ft of steel, and 10 cases of Rust-Oleum (maybe a tetnus shot) and you'll have it looking and running like new. Good purchase.
May turn out to be a real good piece of equipment - Anxious to see it working when you've worked your magic - Thanks for sharing...
Still addicted.
I grew up cutting hay with a PT10. My parents had a farm where we raised beefalo in Minnesota. That haybine cut a lot of hay all over our area. The pitman arm was probably the weakest part.
You made a good choice!! I put up over 100 acres of hay a year with my old haybine.
That's a great barn find! Should be fixable and work great.
Hi, Evan! I absolutely love watching you drive the Allis-Chalmers tractor.