worked for Gehl as a test engineer in the mid 1990's. still debate whether i should have stayed or not. eventually would have either had to go to MN with the skid loader group or would have been out of a job when they disolved the ag group.
kinda fun to play with experimental stuff, try to dream up ways to test stuff. Gehl tested the heck out of stuff before going to market.
the engineers weren't union but the prototype shop was. the junior guy in that shop had 40 years experience so he had to work 2nd shift.
management didn't keep up to date with the quickly changing market shifting from many small farms to big farms. our large TMRs and scavenger spreaders kinda fit the bill there but not much beyond that. they looked at reviving the self propelled mow/co but decided they were too late and would be too much to get into the self propelled forage harvester market. I worked on expanding a feed grinder from 170 to 190 bushel to aim at the bigger farm markets but that was axed as well as the big guys don't want to spend time grinding feed. it worked. tore the whole thing apart to put strain gauges on shafts to see what the torques were to see if the larger size tank needed too much power. it didn't.
worked on BUs (Gehl had some odd terms. BU = bunk unloader = forage wagon) and tested input torque requirements for them as well. Surprisingly a 980 wagon with a full load of pea/barley hayledge at full speed unloading only took a peak HP of 12HP at the PTO.
helped here and there with balers and mow/co's too. would even unroll round hay bales in the parking lot in Wisconsin January to try out a new part on a round baler.
Tested alot of stuff in central FLorida in the winter. Some in southern California where they grow hay to ship to Japan. can get a lot of test hours on a machine running all day everyday.
fortunately i didn't have to work on the spreaders much. just helped a bit. had to put a new liner in a spreader at a chicken farm. it was a liquid PIT set up and they threw dead birds in it. went straight to the laundry mat after work and threw my coveralls in the washer.
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