[AT] Fight over hay

[charliehill]

Whoops, I didn't mean to link the entire folder.  It's a folder I use just 
for the purpose of uploading stuff.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Fight over hay


> Cecil, given a day like that you might enjoy this little video.  I don't
> know what your download capabilites are and didn't want to send you a big
> file so I've put it on Photobucket so all of you can see it.  I don't know
> the origin of this file so if I'm stepping on someone's copyright I'm 
> sorry.
>
> http://s401.photobucket.com/albums/pp100/AllisD14/?action=view&current=LittleShrunkenSingsTheBlues.flv
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:59 AM
> Subject: [AT] Fight over hay
>
>
>>
>>
>> My New Holland round baler broke a shaft last week in the middle of the
>> night.  Not knowing what happened, We put the baler in the shed and
>> waited for this *&^%% weather to clear.  It has been foggy and mist
>> every morning for the last week.  I had about 40 acres cut with a
>> swather.  I had to hire a swather to cut this bermuda field because the
>> wind has been so bad if you cut it with a mower, when the rake picks it
>> up off the ground it blows into the next county.  You can't run the rake
>> some directions because the hay will not clean off the wheels from the
>> wind.
>>
>> I found out my round baler was in trouble Thursday and spent most of
>> Friday getting the pickup out from under the baler and then getting the
>> feeder shaft out of the pickup.  I hooked onto the little vicon square
>> baler to get it baled before the rain set in, and bent the PTO shaft
>> driving out the gate.  I borrowed a neighbors JD 24WS baler and baled
>> about 190 bales Fri night.  I called a contractor friend who wanted the
>> hay for silt fence, and he did not seem as interested as he was when I
>> asked him if he wanted some hay for this project we are working on..
>> Sat morning I made a couple of phone calls and then put an ad on Craigs
>> list for small hay bales of horse quality bermuda and listed the
>> location.  From the phone calls I had 190 bales spoken for, One taking
>> 150 bales and the other taking the 40.  However, the 40 bale guy did not
>> show up until about 3pm.  I had 4 people show up with trailers by 10am.
>>  I started baling again with the vicon after I had repaired the pto
>> shaft and the shear pin on the pickup had broken.  It had been cobbled
>> up before I got it..  I think the entire baler has been put together in
>> a salvage yard.  I put in a new shear bolt, but the twine knotter
>> wasi=n't working on one side.  I quit and went back to the JD baler.  I
>> needed to rake these windrows together since the wind was down, but when
>> I went to get the rake that was hooked onto the tractor, the tractor had
>> a flat and when I aired up the tire, the batteries were down..  I went
>> back and just started baling.  This borrowed baler is missing 3
>> strippers from the feeder and about 8 teeth.  So, I left some in the
>> field and the windrow was wider than the pickup so I had to make two
>> passes over the windrow.  I had promised 50 bales to a couple who were
>> to be back in about 1 hour.  I went on baling and the contractor friend
>> showed up with 2 trailers and his grandkids to load hay and started
>> loading even after I told him that 50 bales had to go to someone else.
>> Had to stop in the middle of things and let in the nurse that takes care
>> of Dad.  So, 2 more trailers show up and load 20 bales on each and hand
>> me cash while on the tractor!!!  Finally the couple with the 50 bales
>> show up and start to bitch at me for not having enough of the "good" hay
>> that they had to have for the horse "cassie" that founders on pasture
>> grass only!!! (sounds like a horse with a lead deficiency, about
>> 70grains worth).  Then the lady proceeds to start a fight with the
>> contractor friend.  He just has the kids put the 45 bales he had loaded
>> on her trailer, and then she starts blaming me for her having to borrow
>> a trailer from a neighbor and it needed a tire!!!!!   I just told her
>> that sundowner sells trailers on I-40..  Next thing happened was my JX85
>> new tractor went flat on a front tire, so I had to quit.  Took the
>> Belarus with the loader and pulled the baler away from the drawbar and
>> shoved it under the shed. Then went back to the tractor and found that I
>> did not have a large enough socket with me to take off the wheel.  So,
>> went back to the house and just got the wrecker I bought a month ago and
>>  towed the tractor back behind the wrecker!!!  Sure nice to have extra
>> equipment.  I have to deliver round bales this morning and my Case JX85
>> is the only one with a bale spike on it right now, and it has the flat...
>>
>> I have about 30 acres of bermuda left to cut and bale.  The field is
>> clean, no bales left, and I never touched a bale.  Looks like I need to
>> find a good square baler and maybe one of those accumulator setups, and
>> some more flatproof tires.
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
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