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casestudy
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Jay Dee
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Kane trailer, though not really.....local contractor built 3 of them with twin wheels for grass & story goes that Kane supplied the paint & stickers for free advertising.
Demo MX, kane body sitting up as chassis is in getting the axles re bushed.
When Case & NH merged, local dealer got their first (& last) baler in, sales man got me to try it as he wanted to see it going.....couldn't get it to put the net on, was a guessing job as to when the bale was made...& he new less about it than me...it was half chain & slat & half rollers if I mind right, noisy but had a good knife setup as in full or half set with the pull of a lever.
Local dealer & us were pretty close at that time, they would send us down troublesome tractors to use for a while before they would send them back to their owners & use our gear sometimes for road tests.....there selling Welger now
Demo MX, kane body sitting up as chassis is in getting the axles re bushed.
When Case & NH merged, local dealer got their first (& last) baler in, sales man got me to try it as he wanted to see it going.....couldn't get it to put the net on, was a guessing job as to when the bale was made...& he new less about it than me...it was half chain & slat & half rollers if I mind right, noisy but had a good knife setup as in full or half set with the pull of a lever.
Local dealer & us were pretty close at that time, they would send us down troublesome tractors to use for a while before they would send them back to their owners & use our gear sometimes for road tests.....there selling Welger now
Jay Dee
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Our first combine.....bought in a hurry in 1985 as our cutting fella was having trouble with his Deere in wet fields...plus his was nearly scrap inside too.
Came without a cab, but he got tired of sticking his head round the side to get a breath in dusty wheat....:whistling:
JCB 5C sitting behind with upright exhaust.
Got an upgrade in 99, 8070 with air con.
Home made fold up lifter on 5140, made it & 6 bale trailer but not a great job.
Came without a cab, but he got tired of sticking his head round the side to get a breath in dusty wheat....:whistling:
JCB 5C sitting behind with upright exhaust.
Got an upgrade in 99, 8070 with air con.
Home made fold up lifter on 5140, made it & 6 bale trailer but not a great job.
Jay Dee
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Paint jobs....135 to start, just needed paint....you'd have thought he'd a washed the shyte off the wheels before he sent it round......
turned out well....
then he had to go & spoil it by putting the frame back on...
couple of our own......still not finished....:whistling:
turned out well....
then he had to go & spoil it by putting the frame back on...
couple of our own......still not finished....:whistling:
tinman
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the row crops dont help her for a start:whistling:
Jay Dee
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You ain't seen 1 of these before.....there's only 2 of them in the world & the fella on the seat owns them both
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The story on this....he built this himself, designed to lift 3 bales with only 1 single acting oil pipe....so as it can be used on a 135...he built the first 1 & got it patented, then ran it for a few years ( we gave him plenty of work with it)...then Hill engineering at Newry took on to build & sell it.
Just as they were ready to go with it BSE kicked in & killed it...this is the 1 Hill made as he ended up buying it back off them.
You ain't seen 1 of these before.....there's only 2 of them in the world & the fella on the seat owns them both
.The story on this....he built this himself, designed to lift 3 bales with only 1 single acting oil pipe....so as it can be used on a 135...he built the first 1 & got it patented, then ran it for a few years ( we gave him plenty of work with it)...then Hill engineering at Newry took on to build & sell it.
Just as they were ready to go with it BSE kicked in & killed it...this is the 1 Hill made as he ended up buying it back off them.
tractorted
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That's a handy job alright,
Pics are great, love seeing how things progress
Pics are great, love seeing how things progress
tinman
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You ain't seen 1 of these before.....there's only 2 of them in the world & the fella on the seat owns them both
The story on this....he built this himself, designed to lift 3 bales with only 1 single acting oil pipe....so as it can be used on a 135...he built the first 1 & got it patented, then ran it for a few years ( we gave him plenty of work with it)...then Hill engineering at Newry took on to build & sell it.
Just as they were ready to go with it BSE kicked in & killed it...this is the 1 Hill made as he ended up buying it back off them.
it was a good idea to be fair, speedy job for shifting in the times that was in it.
Jay Dee
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Indeed, air con was useful in 95 as it was a very hot year, County was like a greenhouse.nice countythe 5140 must have been a big setp up comfortwise
The County broke a selector in the field digging beet & jammed in 2 gears...fought with her in the field for most of the week & ended up chocking the front axle...dropping the back wheels & shafts off....then pulling her home like a trailer on the long drawbar with the 885.
When we got her split she had broke a couple of gears....but the fun wasn't over yet......turns out she had an experimental gearbox they tried in them so had to wait a while on parts.....when put back together she would jump out of 3rd gear on the overun.....which was the gear I baled in, had to sit with your leg wrapped round the gear lever....made baling hills fun as she took off if you forgot...
A good wee baler the 46 & would still rate them today....better than what followed.....but more on that later:whistling:...MX arrived in 2001, we ain't got there yet..
Cheerssmart pic JD
Have a slightly more modern 1 sitting here at the mo.
Plenty more yet.
Always fancied a 956...a tilting steering wheel would help them.......but that 1 was a dog.
Jay Dee
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It was, & at £10/hr, later £11 it was handy for us to just give someone his number & let them sort it.....plus he could reverse that thing from here to Cork
. He works in the same sort of game as you Tinman....or he did, I ain't seen him in 10 years
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Jay Dee
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It was...but then he saw the light & bought a 5130
...syncro I think:whistling:....mind getting a Polo wrote off on the way back from leaving him up a handbook for it 
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Jay Dee
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The Claas 46 in earlier pics went on fire one day balin silage, wasn't even a warm day as it had rained that morning. It was a light crop & moving on meant the smoke was going out the back of the baler, rather than the top.
Wrapper man spotted it before me...I pulled the jumper off & tried to put it out but that just burnt the jumper....went to the first farm for water....but he was away & even had the hose locked in a shed....went to the next place & he seen me coming & was ready with the hose.
By the time it was out the side plate on the bale chamber had warped & the edge of the bale was charred....write off.
Needed a baler quick....Class had just launched the 250, wasn't sure weather to go for it or stick with the 46...went for the 250 in the end...wrong choice, worst baler we ever had.
Had a 856XL plus 4WD with the twin pumps new in 93 before the 5120....then in 98 we went looking for a 955 2WD mainly to run the mower...looked at 3 & ended up with an 856.....brought it home & drove it into the workshop to fit a new exhaust in late July....then the weather turned bad & it got painted as well.
Waiting on the arrival of a new dromone hitch, as it had the standard low one
Wrapper man spotted it before me...I pulled the jumper off & tried to put it out but that just burnt the jumper....went to the first farm for water....but he was away & even had the hose locked in a shed....went to the next place & he seen me coming & was ready with the hose.
By the time it was out the side plate on the bale chamber had warped & the edge of the bale was charred....write off.
Needed a baler quick....Class had just launched the 250, wasn't sure weather to go for it or stick with the 46...went for the 250 in the end...wrong choice, worst baler we ever had.
Had a 856XL plus 4WD with the twin pumps new in 93 before the 5120....then in 98 we went looking for a 955 2WD mainly to run the mower...looked at 3 & ended up with an 856.....brought it home & drove it into the workshop to fit a new exhaust in late July....then the weather turned bad & it got painted as well.
Waiting on the arrival of a new dromone hitch, as it had the standard low one
Jay Dee
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Then we went & bought a second baler....another 46....for backup & busy times at the straw.
This one was nearly the end of it all for me......brought it home & was putting the first roll of netwrap in....roll goes in from the side but I'd always went in from the top....went to the left side as that's where the steps are on the 250....so just climbed up the pickup....then realised it wont go in from the top as this 1 has twine wrap on it....leaned back & felt the steps on my back & thought I shouldn't be leaning on them....just as they let go....threw the roll as best I could & on the way down thought my head is either for the concrete or the link arm claw, doesn't really matter which.....but somehow my leg got caught & I missed them both.
Got to my feet & staggered to half a bale of grass lying against the wall where I lay down & passed out.
Was a good enuff baler....but whoever owned it before us must of put the keys on the roller shafts in with a sledge....if a bearing went there was no pulling them off even with heat....must of cut 5 of them off & they ain't cheap.
This one was nearly the end of it all for me......brought it home & was putting the first roll of netwrap in....roll goes in from the side but I'd always went in from the top....went to the left side as that's where the steps are on the 250....so just climbed up the pickup....then realised it wont go in from the top as this 1 has twine wrap on it....leaned back & felt the steps on my back & thought I shouldn't be leaning on them....just as they let go....threw the roll as best I could & on the way down thought my head is either for the concrete or the link arm claw, doesn't really matter which.....but somehow my leg got caught & I missed them both.
Got to my feet & staggered to half a bale of grass lying against the wall where I lay down & passed out.
Was a good enuff baler....but whoever owned it before us must of put the keys on the roller shafts in with a sledge....if a bearing went there was no pulling them off even with heat....must of cut 5 of them off & they ain't cheap.
casestudy
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the 250 made a better bale than a 46 more like a bale out of a welger, a lad i used to work for had balers said they were hard to drive what was so bad about themThe Claas 46 in earlier pics went on fire one day balin silage, wasn't even a warm day as it had rained that morning. It was a light crop & moving on meant the smoke was going out the back of the baler, rather than the top.
Wrapper man spotted it before me...I pulled the jumper off & tried to put it out but that just burnt the jumper....went to the first farm for water....but he was away & even had the hose locked in a shed....went to the next place & he seen me coming & was ready with the hose.
By the time it was out the side plate on the bale chamber had warped & the edge of the bale was charred....write off.
Needed a baler quick....Class had just launched the 250, wasn't sure weather to go for it or stick with the 46...went for the 250 in the end...wrong choice, worst baler we ever had.
Had a 856XL plus 4WD with the twin pumps new in 93 before the 5120....then in 98 we went looking for a 955 2WD mainly to run the mower...looked at 3 & ended up with an 856.....brought it home & drove it into the workshop to fit a new exhaust in late July....then the weather turned bad & it got painted as well.
Waiting on the arrival of a new dromone hitch, as it had the standard low one