I used to start out the forage choppers for a dealer. When JD had just brought out the "Iron Guard" on the choppers. I kept a bushel basket in the bed of my service truck. At the end of the week it would be full of things we found that would trip the "Iron guard".
I usually had a short piece of metal banding to throw into a windrow to show the farmer how the Iron Guard worked. This one guy was just sure he did not want to pay the extra money for the iron guard. He swore to me that his fields did NOT have any metal in them. I talked him into letting me demo a chopper that had the iron guard on it. When he started out I threw the short piece of banding into the second windrow thinking that he would get a round and then it would trip so he could see how it worked. It took us an hour to get back to that point. HE had the floor of his cab full of metal: wire, electric fence post,old hinges, just about everything but the kitchen sink. We never did find the banding I threw into the windrow. HE would not let that chopper leave the farm. He kept all of the stuff he found that first year in a old watering tank by the barn. He had over six hundred pounds of scrape that fall when he hauled it to town.
Worst tool I ever lost was a 1/2 breaker bar. I had just installed a new set of knives and shear bar in a JD self propelled forage chopper. I had it all back together. I started the cutter head up to sharpen the knives. I had forgotten the breaker bar on the back on the cutter head. It fell into the cutter head behind the Iron guard. Wiped out the new knives and shear bar. I paid the dealer for the parts and clocked out and fixed it on my own time.
Right after that I bought a bigger tool box and made sure every tool I had was in a specific place and was in a case, holder or roll pack. I have always cleaned up and inventoried my tools before starting anything up since then. I have found several thing that I had missed over the years but I never have tore anything else up.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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