Wasted a good beer

[Nesikep]

So I was out baling last night, from 11pm to 4 am things were going well, I had found the rhythm everything wanted to go at, it wasn't a heavy cut, so I was cruising along at about 5 mph and then I saw a little smoke from a valve cover gasket on the old wisconsin engine on the baler.. get off, look around, must have a little bit of a leaky cover gasket (it's brand new).. so I get going again, and a few rounds later I see some sparks... I am right by a corner so I just go straight, away from my hay and monitor the situation, seems like there's a bunch of oily chaff down in the cylinder area that is on fire... so I shut it down, cracked the beer i had open and poured it in.. the fire was out, I started it back up, revved the pizz out of it and blew the rest of the smouldering crud out, and I was on my way again... with no beer :'(

 

[ALACOWMAN]

I bale at those hours here,I'd be under the baler pulling clogs the majority of the time...though the beer tastes the same......

 

[Nesikep]

if I don't bale in the middle of the night I'd have bales of straw with not a leaf on them.. neighbor across the river bales in the daytime, and I can see it when I look at his hay, you open a bale and you have a pile of sticks and a pile of leaves. In the daytime you wouldn't see the sparks flying, and everything is more flammable, everything runs hotter too. Other than that little hiccup this rebuilt engine with a motorcycle carb on it runs FAR better than it used to, and I get about 100-120 bales to a gallon, my entire first cut I did on 13 gallons and it was about 1400 bales

 

[HDRider]

Nes, you a hand guy, no doubt about it..

 

[hillbilly beef man]

We have to quit baleing about an hour before dark because of the dew. The baler will tell you real quick if you go last that. I would love to be able to bale after dark.

 

[Nesikep]

every place is different.. I was out in a T shirt until about 3 am and comfortable.. usually the good baling only happens when there's enough of a chill in the air I have to layer up.. the bales weren't as heavy as I usually make them, probably about 70 lbs instead of the usual 80