greasing up the roto baler

No question here, just some mindless jibber. Thinking while I was greasing, and greasing, and greasing...... (you get the point) the roto baler. The something like 48 grease zerks that it has; at least I think that that is what I read somewhere. I've tried counting them, but I lose count after 10, because that's when I run out of fingers. I think the thing is 10 pounds heavier after I get done greasing it. But any way, when you do the math on this, and take the roughly 77,000 roto balers that allis made, and take that times the 48 grease zerks per baler, that is just over 3.6 million grease zerks. And that is just roto balers. Think the all crops were pretty liberally grease zerked, too. I realize that is spread out over a few years, but man, how did they make that many grease zerks back then, and who screwed all of them in? Bet there was a big turnover in help in that department. I know I wouldn't last an hour being a grease zerk installer! LOL! Darrel

Back before there was CNC there were automatic screw machines. The are marvels of mechanical automation. Here is one at work, not making grease fittings but similar dinky part. Machine shops would have rows of these and once set up to make a part they generally were not changed over due to the time required to do so.  They just shut them down until another run of that part was needed.
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Edited by Butch(OH) - 23 Jun 2016 at 7:03am

at least 2 would never take grease, the ones on the hay kicker in front of the big drum turning the belts.

I know you right Shameless. I don't remember for sure but the IH 1PR had 83 grease zerks or the big bin 66 had 83. I know it was a bunch, and I know in the morning it was time for the second cup of coffee when you got done greasing everything.

The older stuff all needed greased a-lot. I grease this picker two times a-day that = two tubes of grease per day. Then grease the old two row corn binder two times a-day, it will go through three tubes per day.
 
The old IHC two row corn binder.