Been rewatching most of your vids again with my old man. He was a technician with a Ford/New Holland dealer in NE Scotland for 20 years and so all this repair work is a brilliant watch for him. Our workshop isn’t quite the same standard as yours but we’re trying! Even now, my Da keeps his hand in with our local farmer doing the odd fabrication and repair job but otherwise, your videos are quite literally the “fix” we need! Keep up all the ace work and look forward to seeing what 2025 brings for you👍🏻
I really felt your pain when you whacked your arm on the baler. Everything hurts much more and for longer when it’s cold. Hope the new ceiling makes a difference to the temperature as well as the dripping. Enjoyed this video very much. Thank you 🙏.
Yes memories galore. I used to drive the Fordson Major on the farm I used to help on when I was 14, it was used with the front belt drive to power the large steel saw horse for making up fence posts and cutting wood for the farm house. No covers on the saw horse blade then just wide open, no health and safety problems then !! And also the same style of MF baler pulled by either the MF 135 or 165 ! Can also remember the old MF TVO tractor which used to take some starting on the front handle, no electric start. This does bring back memories.
Cold days this week in Yorkshire, everything you work with, tools, steel, all numb the fingers. Thanks for this weeks update. Brian from South Yorkshire
Great video as always, your reasoning to work out problems on equipment you don't use is fascinating. I hope the insulation and lighting doesn't cause too much grief.
I'm sure I felt how cold it was, all of a sudden I felt very cold watching you in the workshop. Always good to have an expert on hand, your dad was watching it like a hawk. Let's hope the roof works make the shop a lot warmer. 👍
Good morning, Oliver. That new firewood shed will come in handy now. No digging firewood out of the snow🥶! That baler will be able to give it a go for another season, after your re-engineering and repair. Looking forward to the roof/ceiling mods and insulation. Afterall, a warm fabrication engineer is a happy fabrication engineer😊. Thanks and have a great week! Cheers.
Love the old Fordson! I drove a fordson super major at times, loved it! Big solid machine! Great to find a video posted this morning; excellent! I’m working on my Macs processing my music collection today so this video was a welcome start to the day. I remember the old balers during my time on the farm, we used the Sherry New Holland baler; he wanted an International but there wasn’t one available at the time. Great work on this, still needs some more investigation but I am certain that with your abilities, you’ll get this working properly again! Very good demonstration and explanation of how the baler works. Where I am, not many farmers baler hay anymore, they have their silage and whole crops, cake and grain, all mixed together in a machine. They bale straw with the big square baler or the round baler and any hay they have may be among the straw. They combine with a view to bale it afterwards rather than have the combine shred and destroy the straw. Glad you have the roof insulation organised; bit risky having lights shorting on you! You certainly get winter where you are! We tend to get heavy frost, frozen rain and ice,we haven’t had any serious snow for a few years now. I don’t work now so the only thing that the colder weather does is set my skin off and my asthma!. Really enjoy your videos! Mark from Scotland 👍😀
This brings back some great memories of staying with my grandparents at their farm during summer holidays when I was a nipper. Grandad had the same MF bailer and I was always a bit intimidated by the thing when it was running, it was a mechanical monster to me 😂 Had a lot of fun building a big fort out of bales in the field with my uncle.
Nothing like a well looked after baler. Cleaned out and oiled up ready for next season, or like this one leave it as you pulled out of the field 😳 put a grease gun on the invoice and send it out with the baler might be a good idea
Morning Oliver, just lit the fire and made a brew. And settling in to watch, bloody cold innit -5⁰C here ffs lol, keep warm, keep safe, and thanks for sharing
@@peter_peter_pumpkin_eaterMore that the adjustment pushes the material being baled further (or not as far) into and across the chamber which will have a direct impact on the bale shape.
Good morning, Ollie! You have a good deal more snow than we do here in Germany, but the temperature is the same. Working in that cold weather is a pain and I hope you get some insulation and heating worked out soon. We converted our fluorescent tubes to LED and they make a huge improvement. Thanks for another outstanding video.
That ole girl has seen some real use. Nice job Ollie! I must have walked 500 miles behind one of those machines in my youth picking and stacking bales. The sound of that machine is unforgettable. Hope the elbow is ok and stay warm. I laughed out loud when you said you could spend all afternoon in front of the wood stove... I KNOW the feeling. Be safe stay warm...
Watching here in north central Florida USA and it's 4 above freezing F. Burning the wood also. Nice lightweight job for such a cold day there. I've handled lots of rockwool and don't envy that job. I will get itchy just watching. Keep up the good work
It's 27C on the East Coast of Australia and trying to listen to a video with a couple of hundred cockatoos squawking outside of my window - if anyone wants a box full of them, I will gladly give them to you.
You got just about the same weather as us in the Midwest of America. Except for it's colder and windy. I miss the square bail myself. Used to boys who wanted to make money would throw hay in the summer and keep busy building muscle and work ethics. Kids today lacking both and are soft. Great job making the repairs. I hope you get your insulation in this week, Oliver.
My grandfather and father used to have square balers, different manufacturers, Welger, Massey and several John deer's. I love those old small square balers, due to the engineering that went into them and getting everything to be in sync to work correctly. So many issues and I witness so many issues with other balers from other farmers. The unfortunate issue is the amounts of bale handling afterwards to get into the barn. I prefer large square bales fir single operator with tractor and loader, which also is a simplified engineering baler.
Brilliant video, Olly. I've only ever seen once like that in my lifetime living in North Devon. It only ever rains here. Have you ever considered trying to find an old wood burner or building a waste oil burner to give you some workshop heat
Oliver, did you look into sprayfoam insulation for the roof? Will save you a lot of hassle, I'm no expert but would your insulation need a vapour barrier before you put your second layer of tin on? You could end up with saturated insulation. Thanks for the vlog, interesting as per usual 😊
Oliver, insukation should have a vapour barrier on one side only. If it is fully closed on both sides, mold will start to grow. I would not put sheet metal on the inside, becaus eyou will still have condensation probably on both sides of the sheets. There are fireproof fiber cement plates available, we used them in our workshop to cover the inside of the roof.
Some thoughts re insulation. Winter in SW Sydney Australia is nothing as severe as you get. No snow and maybe gets down to zero to 4 degrees at night in winter. Days are lowest of 12 - 14 degrees Celsius. But I have insulation in ceiling and walls in my 16M x 8M x 4.2M high shed. Was built 17 years ago. Erecting it with insulation was a pain - took three times as long to do wall and roof sheeting as without insulation. But for last 17 years, in summer can work in the shed with doors open in 35 degree weather (inside maybe 28 degrees) and in winter, even in the coolest of evenings with the doors closed, only have to wear some sort of jumper for 15 mins before it becomes uncomfortable. Then only work in shorts, singlet and T shirt. What I am saying, if you have the opportunity to insulate the walls as well, do it. It may be a pain to do so but you will never regret it. My insulation is foil covered fiberglass insulation, foil to the inside which also makes it quiet with absolutely no interior echoing and the lady in the neighboring granny flat, 15M from the shed, does not hear me even when I am using a 9" angle grinder with the double 3M sliding doors open. The insulation rolls come 1200mm wide. We used square thin dia 100mm x 100mm square hole wire mesh on the walls first to hold the insulation in place before the roof and wall cladding was fitted (mesh 1st on, insulation 2nd, cladding 3rd). As mentioned took a lot longer to erect but never once regretted it. Those who help me erect the shed have also benefited. We can work in any weather. Have a 2 post mechanics hoist, 4M long 3.5 tonne lathe, 2 milling machines, drill bits up to 2" (MT4 taper) as well as lots of other "toys". I know it would be a lot of work, but consider even taking off all your exterior sheeting, one sheet at a time, progressively installing the mesh, then insulation and then refitting the roof and cladding. I had a lot of help building my shed; 15 people on one of the days, including teenagers. All of them had never done anything like that work before. They have all benefitted from the capabilities of the shed, in all weathers, many times since then. If you come to Australia for a visit, happy to show you around at home. You might even get a coffee, or tea, and maybe even a biscuit.
Nice job - if those nylon bushes don't hold up, the ones on mine are made of oilite bronze. You can test them a little bit whilst stationary by shoveling loose hay into the feeder with a pitchfork (running at full PTO rpms)
29:00 Florescent lights hate the cold. You might consider getting some LED lights... They have tubes available, but I'd guess there are better alternatives. We got a bit of snow here too, but fortunately, it rained the next day and melted it all before I could shovel it off the walkways... :)
When the first big bales came out I was still on the farm. We hated them and went back to small. But in those days we had smaller tractors and no handling equipment. Trying to bed the cows down with a giant round bale was a nightmare. The little bales we had a grab that picked up 40 at a time. Easy to drop off and lay out. How times change.
Hi Oliver @28:50 your fluorescent fittings probably hate the condensation as much as you do, I suspect you have some water ingress getting into the control gear and killing them - hopefully the new insulated ceiling will go a long way to help resolve the issues. Might be better to go for low bay LED lighting if you need to replace the fluorescents, low bays will be more suitable for the harsh environment you work in, and be more robust. Hope this helps, another great video don’t envy you working in those temperatures one bit 🥶🥶- Michael (Leicester)
Hello Oliver, Another used/worn piece of farm equipment repaired and back in action unless the loose gearbox brings it back into the workshop. One safety tip if I may? When using the drill press swing the vice handle/”mole” grips/work piece) round to rest against the left hand side of the drill column so if the drill “snatches” you don’t end up with bruised and bloody knuckles………….ask me how I know 😉 All the best for 2025
The thing thats puzzling me is what the long spring does it that arm? Dont envy you working in that cold, been in a situation like that in Newcastle, where I had to work on a machine with all the customer workshop doors open, its no fun freezing.
I was thinking the same thing at the end 😂😂😂 what a death trap it looked. No guards or safety features, lots of hideous moving parts to drag you in if you get a little too close or have a lapse of concentration- typical old school farm machinery. Amputation or death a real possibility 😱 But a fun contraption nonetheless 👍🏼
Not sure Oliver but I wonder if it should have been a square shoulder instead of a tapper so there’s more surface area for even load on the pin. As old one looks like it’s been wearing on one side more than the other. I could be wrong, just how it looks through the screen. Awesome job.
Good fix Ollie, maybe if the machine was cleaned off properly you’d be able to see if it was cracked anywhere, why don’t people clean these things when they’re done with them for the season 🙄. 👍
An online taper calculator, whatever next ! I remember saying to my old maths teacher "Will I ever need to use any of this algebra in the real world ?" He replied "You won't, but one of the smart kids might !"😂
Watching you use angle grinder to cut off welding would it be an idea to make up a couple of curtain frames to stop the red hot sparks shooting across the workshop with the possibility of setting something on fire they could also screen weld flash
Don’t forget the nasty blade that pass through to cut the side of the bale. It was fun getting in there to swap or sharpen the blade. You had to be very careful around that due to the position of arms as they could come down and the blade would be released. Some nasty accidents occurred in my day with people losing part of their arms or badly cut.
Hi Oliver, 😨 real brass monkey weather mate, noticed the snow on the baler had melted by the end of the video,you must have been getting hot working too hard,lol. Nice fix though on a pretty worn machine, full mark's mate. And being in front of the stove is a better idea. Atb, Stuart UK.
If it was the hammering from the slack, then testing it by putting in a 50% bigger shear bolt would show it can basically still run and there's nothing more fundamental going wrong.
My neighbour apparently was fiddling with the knotters on his whist still running in the middle of the paddock, just as the arm dropped and the needle came up through his hand. He was stuck there with bale twine tying him to the machine. He's never without a pocket knife now.
i am familiar with the massey 128 also the 124 i have qwned and used the 124 i also worked for a massey dealer here in wyoming the massey suretie knotter is the finest knotter maade.
It’s funny you should say that, our neighbouring farm had a MF baler in the sixties, we had an IH B47 which dropped loose ones every hundred or so. I knew his son and asked him once at the young farmers club how many loose bales it made, give or take. He told me it hardly ever made a loose bales unless it was when the balls of stringed changed and the knot got in the knotter. I have always thought MF was the best baler at the time. This one is worth at least £3200 i guess, maybe considerably more now that Mr Snowball has sorted it out.
Cold weather can kill the ballasts in fluorescent lights, because they are essentially electrolytic capacitors. The tubes could well be ok but replacing the ballasts is likely to be just as expensive as replacing the entire light with new LED lamps.
@snowballengineering That is quite unusual because LEDs a very temperature insensitive. I suggest check-in for ice causing a leap to negative or ground and tight wires suffering losing contact from thermal contraction.
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Been rewatching most of your vids again with my old man. He was a technician with a Ford/New Holland dealer in NE Scotland for 20 years and so all this repair work is a brilliant watch for him.
Our workshop isn’t quite the same standard as yours but we’re trying!
Even now, my Da keeps his hand in with our local farmer doing the odd fabrication and repair job but otherwise, your videos are quite literally the “fix” we need!
Keep up all the ace work and look forward to seeing what 2025 brings for you👍🏻
I really felt your pain when you whacked your arm on the baler. Everything hurts much more and for longer when it’s cold. Hope the new ceiling makes a difference to the temperature as well as the dripping. Enjoyed this video very much. Thank you 🙏.
Yes memories galore. I used to drive the Fordson Major on the farm I used to help on when I was 14, it was used with the front belt drive to power the large steel saw horse for making up fence posts and cutting wood for the farm house. No covers on the saw horse blade then just wide open, no health and safety problems then !! And also the same style of MF baler pulled by either the MF 135 or 165 ! Can also remember the old MF TVO tractor which used to take some starting on the front handle, no electric start. This does bring back memories.
Cold days this week in Yorkshire, everything you work with, tools, steel, all numb the fingers. Thanks for this weeks update. Brian from South Yorkshire
Great video as always, your reasoning to work out problems on equipment you don't use is fascinating. I hope the insulation and lighting doesn't cause too much grief.
I'm sure I felt how cold it was, all of a sudden I felt very cold watching you in the workshop. Always good to have an expert on hand, your dad was watching it like a hawk. Let's hope the roof works make the shop a lot warmer. 👍
Good morning, Oliver. That new firewood shed will come in handy now. No digging firewood out of the snow🥶!
That baler will be able to give it a go for another season, after your re-engineering and repair. Looking forward to the roof/ceiling mods and insulation. Afterall, a warm fabrication engineer is a happy fabrication engineer😊. Thanks and have a great week! Cheers.
Oliver, thank you for explaining to us townies what this thing is used for. Appreciate it.
Ditto.
Great to see the Major and Rapidor in action. Good fix as always. Thanks for all the posts.
Love the old Fordson! I drove a fordson super major at times, loved it! Big solid machine!
Great to find a video posted this morning; excellent! I’m working on my Macs processing my music collection today so this video was a welcome start to the day.
I remember the old balers during my time on the farm, we used the Sherry New Holland baler; he wanted an International but there wasn’t one available at the time. Great work on this, still needs some more investigation but I am certain that with your abilities, you’ll get this working properly again!
Very good demonstration and explanation of how the baler works. Where I am, not many farmers baler hay anymore, they have their silage and whole crops, cake and grain, all mixed together in a machine. They bale straw with the big square baler or the round baler and any hay they have may be among the straw. They combine with a view to bale it afterwards rather than have the combine shred and destroy the straw.
Glad you have the roof insulation organised; bit risky having lights shorting on you!
You certainly get winter where you are! We tend to get heavy frost, frozen rain and ice,we haven’t had any serious snow for a few years now. I don’t work now so the only thing that the colder weather does is set my skin off and my asthma!.
Really enjoy your videos!
Mark from Scotland 👍😀
This brings back some great memories of staying with my grandparents at their farm during summer holidays when I was a nipper. Grandad had the same MF bailer and I was always a bit intimidated by the thing when it was running, it was a mechanical monster to me 😂 Had a lot of fun building a big fort out of bales in the field with my uncle.
Nothing like a well looked after baler. Cleaned out and oiled up ready for next season, or like this one leave it as you pulled out of the field 😳 put a grease gun on the invoice and send it out with the baler might be a good idea
Fully agree. Properly greased _anything_ will run better !
At least they didn't turn up with it in July, and said they needed it running yesterday !
I'm freezing just watching you, Oliver😮
Great job on the repair 👍🏻👍🏻
Morning Oliver, just lit the fire and made a brew. And settling in to watch, bloody cold innit -5⁰C here ffs lol, keep warm, keep safe, and thanks for sharing
The three holes are to adjust the packers for various crops to get an even feed into the chamber and prevent banana shaped bales
Does adjusting that pin push more hay into the chute then? Constantly getting banana bales on a Holland 'idiot baler'😂.
@@peter_peter_pumpkin_eaterMore that the adjustment pushes the material being baled further (or not as far) into and across the chamber which will have a direct impact on the bale shape.
Good morning, Ollie! You have a good deal more snow than we do here in Germany, but the temperature is the same. Working in that cold weather is a pain and I hope you get some insulation and heating worked out soon. We converted our fluorescent tubes to LED and they make a huge improvement. Thanks for another outstanding video.
That ole girl has seen some real use. Nice job Ollie! I must have walked 500 miles behind one of those machines in my youth picking and stacking bales. The sound of that machine is unforgettable. Hope the elbow is ok and stay warm. I laughed out loud when you said you could spend all afternoon in front of the wood stove... I KNOW the feeling. Be safe stay warm...
The mechanical operation video demonstration you filmed is really great
Balers is allus trouble! Never heard of”idiot cubes” before ! Lols, watching you fix that made me feel cold, good fix Ollie!
Phil
Watching here in north central Florida USA and it's 4 above freezing F.
Burning the wood also.
Nice lightweight job for such a cold day there.
I've handled lots of rockwool and don't envy that job. I will get itchy just watching.
Keep up the good work
I really appreciated the explanation and demonstration of how it all works.
Best two balers I worked with were the John Deere 346 and Massey 128, both made a great bale and the harder you worked them the better they went 👍
The mighty Fordson on the job.
Another awesome instalment and looking a little cold.
From Summer land in kiwi land
Ollie, When you can chip the ice off the work bench its time for roof insulation.
We are at around 36c here in Aus this week. cheers, Butch.
We would be totally stuffed here in UK if we got to 36C. Same as we are when it goes below 0C.
It's 27C on the East Coast of Australia and trying to listen to a video with a couple of hundred cockatoos squawking outside of my window - if anyone wants a box full of them, I will gladly give them to you.
that was a cold job. thanks for the show. see you next week.
You got just about the same weather as us in the Midwest of America. Except for it's colder and windy. I miss the square bail myself. Used to boys who wanted to make money would throw hay in the summer and keep busy building muscle and work ethics. Kids today lacking both and are soft. Great job making the repairs. I hope you get your insulation in this week, Oliver.
getting hurt that adds up I'm 57 and did this work most my life my joints and hands hurt take care.
The mighty Fordson on the job.
Another awesome instalment and looking a little cold.
My grandfather and father used to have square balers, different manufacturers, Welger, Massey and several John deer's.
I love those old small square balers, due to the engineering that went into them and getting everything to be in sync to work correctly. So many issues and I witness so many issues with other balers from other farmers. The unfortunate issue is the amounts of bale handling afterwards to get into the barn. I prefer large square bales fir single operator with tractor and loader, which also is a simplified engineering baler.
Great video and love your content Oliver 🤙🤙
Brilliant video, Olly. I've only ever seen once like that in my lifetime living in North Devon. It only ever rains here. Have you ever considered trying to find an old wood burner or building a waste oil burner to give you some workshop heat
Great video Oliver.
Feeling your pain. It's 24 Celcius here in Thailand but still warm enough that I got sunburnt playing golf this morning.
Oliver, did you look into sprayfoam insulation for the roof? Will save you a lot of hassle, I'm no expert but would your insulation need a vapour barrier before you put your second layer of tin on? You could end up with saturated insulation. Thanks for the vlog, interesting as per usual 😊
Hi My Dear Friend Very Very Great Job Sir ❤❤❤❤❤
Well done it's tough working when it's sooo cold ...
Oliver, insukation should have a vapour barrier on one side only. If it is fully closed on both sides, mold will start to grow. I would not put sheet metal on the inside, becaus eyou will still have condensation probably on both sides of the sheets. There are fireproof fiber cement plates available, we used them in our workshop to cover the inside of the roof.
Some thoughts re insulation. Winter in SW Sydney Australia is nothing as severe as you get. No snow and maybe gets down to zero to 4 degrees at night in winter. Days are lowest of 12 - 14 degrees Celsius. But I have insulation in ceiling and walls in my 16M x 8M x 4.2M high shed. Was built 17 years ago. Erecting it with insulation was a pain - took three times as long to do wall and roof sheeting as without insulation. But for last 17 years, in summer can work in the shed with doors open in 35 degree weather (inside maybe 28 degrees) and in winter, even in the coolest of evenings with the doors closed, only have to wear some sort of jumper for 15 mins before it becomes uncomfortable. Then only work in shorts, singlet and T shirt. What I am saying, if you have the opportunity to insulate the walls as well, do it. It may be a pain to do so but you will never regret it. My insulation is foil covered fiberglass insulation, foil to the inside which also makes it quiet with absolutely no interior echoing and the lady in the neighboring granny flat, 15M from the shed, does not hear me even when I am using a 9" angle grinder with the double 3M sliding doors open. The insulation rolls come 1200mm wide. We used square thin dia 100mm x 100mm square hole wire mesh on the walls first to hold the insulation in place before the roof and wall cladding was fitted (mesh 1st on, insulation 2nd, cladding 3rd). As mentioned took a lot longer to erect but never once regretted it. Those who help me erect the shed have also benefited. We can work in any weather. Have a 2 post mechanics hoist, 4M long 3.5 tonne lathe, 2 milling machines, drill bits up to 2" (MT4 taper) as well as lots of other "toys". I know it would be a lot of work, but consider even taking off all your exterior sheeting, one sheet at a time, progressively installing the mesh, then insulation and then refitting the roof and cladding. I had a lot of help building my shed; 15 people on one of the days, including teenagers. All of them had never done anything like that work before. They have all benefitted from the capabilities of the shed, in all weathers, many times since then. If you come to Australia for a visit, happy to show you around at home. You might even get a coffee, or tea, and maybe even a biscuit.
We just call them square bales. 🤠
I’ve always wanted one of these machines.
Maybe I’ll search a bit harder.
We didn't get any snow in Hull, but 10 miles away on the world's 6 to 8 inch blowing into drifts that were multiple feet deep.
Nice job - if those nylon bushes don't hold up, the ones on mine are made of oilite bronze.
You can test them a little bit whilst stationary by shoveling loose hay into the feeder with a pitchfork (running at full PTO rpms)
I thought bronze also, not sure how robust that nylon will be but easy enough to revisit if needed.
29:00 Florescent lights hate the cold. You might consider getting some LED lights... They have tubes available, but I'd guess there are better alternatives.
We got a bit of snow here too, but fortunately, it rained the next day and melted it all before I could shovel it off the walkways... :)
When the first big bales came out I was still on the farm. We hated them and went back to small. But in those days we had smaller tractors and no handling equipment. Trying to bed the cows down with a giant round bale was a nightmare. The little bales we had a grab that picked up 40 at a time. Easy to drop off and lay out. How times change.
Looking forward to the roof/ceiling mods and insulation.
Looks very cool there
Hi Oliver @28:50 your fluorescent fittings probably hate the condensation as much as you do, I suspect you have some water ingress getting into the control gear and killing them - hopefully the new insulated ceiling will go a long way to help resolve the issues. Might be better to go for low bay LED lighting if you need to replace the fluorescents, low bays will be more suitable for the harsh environment you work in, and be more robust.
Hope this helps, another great video don’t envy you working in those temperatures one bit 🥶🥶- Michael (Leicester)
Hello Oliver,
Another used/worn piece of farm equipment repaired and back in action unless the loose gearbox brings it back into the workshop.
One safety tip if I may? When using the drill press swing the vice handle/”mole” grips/work piece) round to rest against the left hand side of the drill column so if the drill “snatches” you don’t end up with bruised and bloody knuckles………….ask me how I know 😉
All the best for 2025
Looking forward to roof installation I have same problem with condensation
The thing thats puzzling me is what the long spring does it that arm? Dont envy you working in that cold, been in a situation like that in Newcastle, where I had to work on a machine with all the customer workshop doors open, its no fun freezing.
fascinating and deathly machines. I like it
I was thinking the same thing at the end 😂😂😂 what a death trap it looked. No guards or safety features, lots of hideous moving parts to drag you in if you get a little too close or have a lapse of concentration- typical old school farm machinery. Amputation or death a real possibility 😱 But a fun contraption nonetheless 👍🏼
Not sure Oliver but I wonder if it should have been a square shoulder instead of a tapper so there’s more surface area for even load on the pin. As old one looks like it’s been wearing on one side more than the other.
I could be wrong, just how it looks through the screen.
Awesome job.
Good fix Ollie, maybe if the machine was cleaned off properly you’d be able to see if it was cracked anywhere, why don’t people clean these things when they’re done with them for the season 🙄. 👍
Just came in, had to put the battery charger on. Freasing cold. Have a nice sunday
An online taper calculator, whatever next !
I remember saying to my old maths teacher "Will I ever need to use any of this algebra in the real world ?" He replied "You won't, but one of the smart kids might !"😂
What's the green paste used when drilling/reaming ? Is it home brew or off the shelf
It’s commercial and an American product, can’t remember its name. The uk distributor sent him some a few videos back.
I think he said it was AnchorLube sometime previous.
Anchorlube its given out to all the folk on youtube to promote it. Not as good as rocol or trefolex and more expensive
Watching you use angle grinder to cut off welding would it be an idea to make up a couple of curtain frames to stop the red hot sparks shooting across the workshop with the possibility of setting something on fire they could also screen weld flash
In the snow scene, halfway expected the 'little match girl' and 'Tiny Tim" to show up.
Don’t forget the nasty blade that pass through to cut the side of the bale. It was fun getting in there to swap or sharpen the blade. You had to be very careful around that due to the position of arms as they could come down and the blade would be released. Some nasty accidents occurred in my day with people losing part of their arms or badly cut.
If my memory serves me right there's another shear bolt on the back of the fly wheel to
A good engineer like you should make a drill vice instead of vice grips
A little something to help with the insulation for your shop. Hang in there, spring is coming. 🥶
2am here in midwest... 🎉🎉
Florescent lights do not do well in the cold, they may be working but can't get to the point where the put out the light.
Nice to watch the repair, and as a bonus I now know how a MF square baler works :)
You gave up on the engraver on the kutavar?
Hate the cold ! Good job done!
Hi Oliver, 😨 real brass monkey weather mate, noticed the snow on the baler had melted by the end of the video,you must have been getting hot working too hard,lol. Nice fix though on a pretty worn machine, full mark's mate. And being in front of the stove is a better idea. Atb, Stuart UK.
Ol Super Major beast.. proper tractor
great video again
Time for an up grade on your work shop lighting and insulation will make all the difference led strip light are very good
1,698 👍's up SBE thank you for sharing 🤗
The packer fingers were certainly out of kilter before you started to fix them.
Has the major got a 6 cylinder in her??
Awesome job.
Have fun in the snow 😏
good job again
If it was the hammering from the slack, then testing it by putting in a 50% bigger shear bolt would show it can basically still run and there's nothing more fundamental going wrong.
Dear god! When you see all of that lot moving, you can understand why there are so many accidents and deaths in farming.
Nice job again though Ollie.
My neighbour apparently was fiddling with the knotters on his whist still running in the middle of the paddock, just as the arm dropped and the needle came up through his hand. He was stuck there with bale twine tying him to the machine. He's never without a pocket knife now.
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Thanks for the explanation on the baler , I always thought it was witchcraft 😅
i am familiar with the massey 128 also the 124 i have qwned and used the 124 i also worked for a massey dealer here in wyoming the massey suretie knotter is the finest knotter maade.
It’s funny you should say that, our neighbouring farm had a MF baler in the sixties, we had an IH B47 which dropped loose ones every hundred or so. I knew his son and asked him once at the young farmers club how many loose bales it made, give or take. He told me it hardly ever made a loose bales unless it was when the balls of stringed changed and the knot got in the knotter.
I have always thought MF was the best baler at the time. This one is worth at least £3200 i guess, maybe considerably more now that Mr Snowball has sorted it out.
Cold weather can kill the ballasts in fluorescent lights, because they are essentially electrolytic capacitors. The tubes could well be ok but replacing the ballasts is likely to be just as expensive as replacing the entire light with new LED lamps.
These are LED
@snowballengineering That is quite unusual because LEDs a very temperature insensitive. I suggest check-in for ice causing a leap to negative or ground and tight wires suffering losing contact from thermal contraction.
Did my time in the 60's on New Holland 276/8 balers. A standard straw bale should weigh 28llbs.
No BBQ today then
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Another good one.
That Major - is it Euro 5 ? 😂😂😂
Good Job Thanks
Bit mental because Hull (same county) didn't see a flake of the stuff..!
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I find it uncomfortable to work in our 115°F heat. But I can not work at all in
What a complicated thing
Youd love it here in usa midwest. I see these at auctions and all kinds of equipment so cheap. That bailer like 300-500 usd.
I remember my workshop before insulation……
No a pleasant place at at all.
Jobs a guddon .
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Well done, a lot to find the fault in those.
Done a few repairs on bailers ruclips.net/video/RQGlgBizHCo/видео.html
Both scary lol
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Every bit of the machine looks dangerous.
yeah..ok...so forget racking or waterboarding...apparently farming equipment looks proper "we have ways of making you talk" terrifying
…idiot cubes… lolz
Brits are just not built for snow😂