Gettin' Dumber By The Minute

I'm on a "Relearning Curve" here.

The boys over on the Implement board straightened me out on why I popped the sheer-bolt on the NH 849 baler pickup yesterday. Read: "Please don't overfill".

Okay, I'm 70 miles from a New Holland dealer and it is the 4th of July weekend anyway.

Sheer-bolt measures 1/4" x 1 1/2". Can I get away with just putting a grade 8 bolt in there? Or, should I stay with the softer grade 5 bolt?

(Pardon the sloppy tie)

Thanks,

Allan

After reading posts on both boards I have come to two conclusions.

First, New Holland's Auto Wrap is a wonderful thing. If you can find a junker to steal the parts off and add to your baler, do it.

second, slip clutches are a wonderful thing. Luck of the draw, but nothing here has one, and hopefully will stay that way.

My 2 cents

John

Field looks good. 495 doing its job. I see you are a true professional farmer, you stopped in the shade to work on the baler.

KEH

Ran into town and bought a pocket full of bolts. Haul out there and put one in, start 'er up and it promptly snaps the new grade 5 bolt.

So, I gets to studying the silly thing and it was just like the Cowman said. I had to "re-cock" the safty mechanism to get the stop block back out of the way. I then put in another new bolt and she now works like a charm.

So, bottom line was that there never was anything wrong with the baler at all, it was just my ol' pee brain being out of kilter as per usual.

Still, I'm gonna re-adjust that pointer on the gauge, if possible, so that it reads at the "Stop Now" line when it is time to tie off. The way it is now, when it reaches the "Stop Now" line, ya go looking fer bolts.

Lesson learned. :>)

Allan

• Shear bolts

• Hex finish

It took an over filled baler to pop the 8. Dunno how long it was in there and how many hours of shear stress it endured before popping.

A grade 5 may hold and if it doesn't you can use a handfull till you get done or the weekend is over.

Or you can go bummin around trying to beg-borrow-steal one.

Don't overlook old JD square string balers 24T) in your search. They use a 1/4 x 2 1/2 as I recall.

Good luck.

Mark

Keep posting the questions 'cause you are making me smarter by the minute! Keep it up and I'm gonna become an expert hayman, and I have never baled hay! : )

I use grade 5 for shear bolts on everything. Seems to work fine, hard enough to carry some pressure, but soft enough to break before any real damage is done. Of course all my implements are $100 auction finds that seem to be on their last leg!

Dug

Heck, everything I own is old junk; and really, to be honest about it, that's the fun of it.

I'm so darned old that I've got this thing running in the back of my mind all the time, remembering how well it worked when it was new.

Shoot, will a little fixin', the old stuff should work just as well today as it did then, even tho it doesn't cost an arm and a leg like the big boys' toys do. :>)

We're on the right track, if we can just put up with being broke down occasionally. :>)

Allan

Dug

Every 'spare' carrier on the old hooter is empty. Such is to be expected when buying old iron, I guess. :>)

Allan

Yesterday morning, I checked every one of those derned sheer-bolts and thought at that time that I really should have a bucketful of the rascals.

The NH ones are a grade 8, but I think they have a sheer groove built into 'em. 'Course, I'm just going by the color of the bolts; they are that yellowish-greenish color like most grade 8s are.

So, you're probably right. A grade 5 standard bolt might work better since I can't get the "correct" bolt today.

Allan

I'm just upset with myself.

Those fellas over on the implement board no more than got it out of their mouths and I distictly remembered my hired man back in the 80s (who owned that particular baler) cautioning me that this would happen if I let it get too full.

I shoulda remembered. :>(

Allan