Tool To Loosen The Belt On Older Vermeer Balers
Robert Ellis, High Hill, Mo.: "I designed this tool to loosen the belt that drives the pickup on older model Vermeer balers to make it easier to grease the bars at each end of the pickup. It saves a lot of skinned knuckles," says Robert Ellis, High Hill, Mo.
The baler's pickup is equipped with five or six bars, with grease fittings at both ends. To grease the bars, the operator has to either loosen the belt or remove it so he can rotate the pickup. The tool that Ellis fabricated simply takes the tension off an idler on the belt, allowing the operator to slip the belt off the pulley. The idler is attached by a short metal bracket to a shaft.
Ellis welded a 6-in. length of rectangular tubing and a short stub pipe together, with a metal tab on one side. The device slips onto a 2-ft. steel pipe handle. When the tool slips over the shaft, the tab extends over the idler bracket. The operator pushes down on the pipe handle to lower the idler and release tension on the belt.
"My brother Kermit uses it on his baler. He had been using a crescent wrench to rotate the shaft, but it didn't work very well and he often skinned his knuckles," says Ellis.
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Tool To Loosen The Belt On Older Vermeer Balers CULTIVATORS Cultivators (58C) 28-6-37 Robert Ellis, High Hill, Mo.: "I designed this tool to loosen the belt that drives the pickup on older model Vermeer balers to make it easier to grease the bars at each end of the pickup. It saves a lot of skinned knuckles," says Robert Ellis, High Hill, Mo.
The baler's pickup is equipped with five or six bars, with grease fittings at both ends. To grease the bars, the operator has to either loosen the belt or remove it so he can rotate the pickup. The tool that Ellis fabricated simply takes the tension off an idler on the belt, allowing the operator to slip the belt off the pulley. The idler is attached by a short metal bracket to a shaft.
Ellis welded a 6-in. length of rectangular tubing and a short stub pipe together, with a metal tab on one side. The device slips onto a 2-ft. steel pipe handle. When the tool slips over the shaft, the tab extends over the idler bracket. The operator pushes down on the pipe handle to lower the idler and release tension on the belt.
"My brother Kermit uses it on his baler. He had been using a crescent wrench to rotate the shaft, but it didn't work very well and he often skinned his knuckles," says Ellis.
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