I don't know if this guy is serious or joking?

[jimg]

A quick question...are you sure its arundo and not fragmities? They look very much alike exc fragmities doesnt get as tall.

 

[Grrrr]

I didn't plant it, it grows wild around here along ditches and such.

As for baling it, I would think if you ran it thru conditioning rolls it would help limber it up as like I said, I have not had any issues with it but then again it is only a small patch along the edge of one of my fields.

I understand the reason for the power company chopping and I thought it was mainly because it is faster, easier and cheaper to run a chopper and not have to touch anything. They do this with willow up here. When they first planted it they tried harvesting by hand till they came up with a chopper that would hold up to the willow wood. However, hand harvesting was way too time consuming and costly. Now they pull in with a chopper and two side dump wagons and harvest a field like they would corn silage. In and out and no messing around stacking bales of hay, just back the tractor trailer up to where they are going and dump the entire load. Bales just require more work then they really want.

And I agree, I was nervous about looking inside my baler after that stick went thru but there wasn't a nick on anything. These balers are built heavy and you would really have to abuse them to do any damage and even then the shear bolt should pop to protect the baler.

The don't like breeze blocks or corrugated iron very much, trust me.

 

[jimg]

breeze blocks = cinder blocks?

 

[Robert_in_NY]

A quick question...are you sure its arundo and not fragmities? They look very much alike exc fragmities doesnt get as tall.

I think you are right, did a search on phragmites and the color of the flower is telling me it is phragmites.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

The don't like breeze blocks or corrugated iron very much, trust me.

I would like to hear to story behind this though.

 

[bontai_Joe]

I only watched part 1 and part 7. This guy is very serious, and in way over his head. I'd be absolutely totally amazed if this work gets him his masters degree. If I was his professor, I'd laugh him right off campus. I'm no expert on baling hay, only did it as a summer job more than 35 years ago, but I'd bet I have more experience than this guy. I agree with what was said above, it was painfull to watch.

As to Deere parts being available in Thailand? I know there are Deere dealers in the Philippines, Japan, Korea and China so I would suspect Thailand has some too..... just checked and they have 3 or 4 in Thailand, even some in Viet Nam. Probably can get parts everywhere in the world except Antartica

 

[Tig]

I wanted to email him to find out if he got his masters. When I clicked on the contact link I got a page with his email address and this disclaimer.
"Please note as a common courtesy, I am being openly blunt when I warn you in advance that all e-mails to the given contact address will be ignored, not read, and be given no response.
Unless you are the actual legal representative of one of my Thesis References, another party or person mentioned in my Thesis or on this website, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), etc... then I will consider responding to your e-mail. Thank you."

 

[Grrrr]

I would like to hear to story behind this though.

It was a rather expensive one. Going alongside a hedge and someone had left some junk lying around.

Baler picked the breezer (cinder?) block up and the packer arm came through and bam. Lots of dust and the shear bolt went. The arm was bent and so was the panneling around the pickup. That was on a MF12 I think baler. I am not sure how the mower missed it but I can only assume the brick was floating on the grass and the disk mower less conditioner went straight underneath it.

The corrugated iron was less bad, but still did some damage to the pickup tines. It was my fault for going to close to a pile of it near a hedge and not expecting the pick up to grab it. Lesson learned.

 

[LBrown59]

Well, I hurt my side baling hay the other

Sorry to hear that ;but how's the back coming along?

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Sorry to hear that ;but how's the back coming along?

My back is progressing. I had hoped it would be 100% by now and for all intents and purposes it may be. I can do a lot of the things I did before I was hurt but by doing so I pay the price the next few days to week. My side was hurting because that is where they opened me up to repair the vertebre so the muscles are not anywhere near 100% yet. I just need to make it thru another month then I am able to rest this fall and winter and hopefully automate everything next year so I do not have to lift as much and stress my body as badly.

But thanks for asking.