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Check Gearbox Oil and Crimping Rollers

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29 Year Old Farm Equipment put to the test again...keeping things greased

What happens here

Locate the gearbox compartments on the haybine (usually indicated by fill plugs or access panels). Open them and check that the oil levels are adequate. Do not overfill. Next, inspect the crimping rollers (rubber rollers with chevron patterns) to ensure no debris is hung up and there are no large chunks missing. These rollers crimp the grass to aid in faster drying.

Goal: Verify the oil levels in the haybine's gearboxes and inspect the crimping rollers for obstructions or damage.

Tools and materials

  • Gearbox Oil

What they say

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those tires up I'm gonna do a visual inspection here of our rollers and make sure that nothing is hung up in the rollers before we get started and make sure there are no big chunks taken out of these rollers and these rollers are used to crimp the grass so the grass flows right in between these two rollers right here and it crimps it so that it dries faster okay it breaks the stalk of the grass we want to cruise on around here inspect this wheel make sure that there's nothing obviously wrong we've got plenty of air in our tires we have lubrication points this is the hydraulic cylinder that I was telling you about what happens is you raise that cylinder and then we move this bar back and set this pin in and then the machine is able to go boom all the way down to the ground and back up this is the setting for transport and storage and that is the setting for you now in here we have on every single bearing grease fitting so grease fitting grease fitting grease fitting grease fitting and then there's another one inside here and we'll go through right here on this bearing there's another grease fitting let's open this cabinet up so inside this cabinet there are two containers that have oil in them do not overfill them or they will explode there's also a little storage bin right here for extra blades we want to check our hydraulic codes

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