greasing up the roto baler
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Topic: greasing up the roto baler
Posted By: darrel in ND
Subject: greasing up the roto baler
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2016 at 11:28pm
| 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 |
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 12:14am
| now you is starting to think like me.....scary....ain't it? |
Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 6:56am
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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. [TUBE]I9UCwntixPg[/TUBE] |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 7:02am
| That didn't leave very many places to ware out. MACK |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:10am
| at least 2 would never take grease, the ones on the hay kicker in front of the big drum turning the belts. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 8:33am
| Darrell...you ain't spent time greasing anything until you've greased a 2MH corn picker! |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 1:18pm
| 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. |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 2:34pm
yes, very scarey |
SHAMELESS wrote:Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 5:31pm
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.  ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: Auntwayne
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2016 at 9:16pm
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No Leon, the big bin has 78. Duane
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