un Plugging a Disc bine

[Stocker Steve]

Managed to plug a disc bine with lodged reed canary tonight. Bottom roller wrapped up enough hay to stall the tractor...
Any better way to clean off wrapped rollers other than a sharp knife?

 

[M-5]

Only other option is to set it on fire

 

[Aaron]

I'll trade you a discbine roller wrapped in hay, for a haybine roller wrapped with electric wire. Took me 2 hours in the heat of the day yesterday to get in all out, even with wire cutters.

 

[Nesikep]

a carpet knife works best in my experience.. never had the rollers plug up, but had the reel tangle up with hairy vetch, that was some fun.

 

[Stocker Steve]

a carpet knife works best in my experience..

Thanks

Really heavy hay cut late this year with all the rain.

 

[dun]

Sometimes you can manually turn it backwards, that may help (along with the carpet knife)

 

[cfpinz]

a carpet knife works best in my experience..

Thanks

Really heavy hay cut late this year with all the rain.

Cheap to replace blades, too. I keep one in the tractor toolboxes.

Worst I've ever done was wrapping a few hundred feet of high tensile wire around the pods of a discbine, that cost me a pretty penny.

 

[dun]

Worst I've ever done was wrapping a few hundred feet of high tensile wire around the pods of a discbine, that cost me a pretty penny.

Didn;t cost much other than for the exy/ace; but I did the same thing with 14 ga high tensile wrapped around the blades and stump jumpers on a bush hog. May be why a couple of weeks later I had to replace one gear box.

 

[skyhightree1]

I would definitely take a wrapped disc bine over a wrapped haybine there were many a times I wanted to set the haybine after plugging on a 100 degree day on fire.

 

[Nesikep]

a carpet knife works best in my experience..

Thanks

Really heavy hay cut late this year with all the rain.

Cheap to replace blades, too. I keep one in the tractor toolboxes.

Worst I've ever done was wrapping a few hundred feet of high tensile wire around the pods of a discbine, that cost me a pretty penny.

I'm talking about the hooked blade carpet/linoleum cutters with wooden handles (usually yellow and green), not the boxcutters with snap-off blades

 

[dun]

Thanks

Really heavy hay cut late this year with all the rain.

Cheap to replace blades, too. I keep one in the tractor toolboxes.

Worst I've ever done was wrapping a few hundred feet of high tensile wire around the pods of a discbine, that cost me a pretty penny.

I'm talking about the hooked blade carpet/linoleum cutters with wooden handles (usually yellow and green), not the boxcutters with snap-off blades

The make those curved replaceable blades for the generic metal handled utility knives. That's what I use.

 

[M-5]

if you can get to the roller with a hammer a very sharp brick chisel about 3 or 4" wide will cut right thru the grass. you can tell when you get close to roller so you don't mar it up

 

[cfpinz]

I'm talking about the hooked blade carpet/linoleum cutters with wooden handles (usually yellow and green), not the boxcutters with snap-off blades

Hadn't thought about those, thanks for the tip.

It'd be easier to hook the point of their blade under the wrap and ride the roller without scratching it, specially taking misguided netwrap off a round baler roller.

 

[True Grit Farms]

They also make a hooked blade for as razor knife. Lots of roofers use them to cut tar paper and shingles.

 

[M-5]

They also make a hooked blade for as razor knife. Lots of roofers use them to cut tar paper and shingles.

Yes and they work well for that and I use them to cut the hide on deer .

 

[Nesikep]

Yes, I know those ones as well, and they do work well for initial cuts skinning (the carpet cutter is my go-to tool though).. for one thing you can slip it in your pocket and it doesn't cut, or need to get folded, and the steel is usually really good and takes a heck of an edge... for unplugging discbines, etc it takes a bit more of a bite (for better or for worse) than the razor knife version.. the razor knife version is nice for stripping wire though.

I found to help prevent plug-ups in heavy stuff you really gotta keep the throttle pinned so it slings off rather than wrapping around.. once it starts there ain't no fixing it

 

[Stocker Steve]

Tried a range of knifes and saws. Favs were a Sawzal with a wood blade and a 6" drywall saw.