"Get back" Haybine Jack
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"I like my 1999 New Holland 488 10-ft. haybine but the hand-cranked lift jack on the tongue was located too far forward. One time I made a left hand turn with the machine, and the jack's sharp edges cut into the tractor's rear tire which cost $500 to replace. I solved the problem by cutting off the jack assembly and moving it back 16 in.," says Bruce McNamara, Solway, Minn.
He used a grinding wheel to cut the jack off the tongue. "The grinding wheel did a nice, neat job. I repainted the tongue, and now you can hardly tell where the jack was before," says McNamara.
The relocated jack provides another benefit, says McNamara. "In the past, an upright support for the haybine's pto shaft was always in the way when I cranked the jack. Now there's nothing in the way when cranking the jack so it's not a problem."
McNamara says there are thousands of similar New Holland haybines on the market that have the same problem. "I don't know why the company doesn't move the jack farther back, because there's plenty of room," he notes.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bruce McNamara, 29425 Clearline Rd., Solway, Minn. 56678 (ph 218 467-3342; marilynm@paulbunyan.net).
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"Get back" Haybine Jack HAY & FORAGE HARVESTING Miscellaneous 34-4-29 "I like my 1999 New Holland 488 10-ft. haybine but the hand-cranked lift jack on the tongue was located too far forward. One time I made a left hand turn with the machine, and the jack's sharp edges cut into the tractor's rear tire which cost $500 to replace. I solved the problem by cutting off the jack assembly and moving it back 16 in.," says Bruce McNamara, Solway, Minn.
He used a grinding wheel to cut the jack off the tongue. "The grinding wheel did a nice, neat job. I repainted the tongue, and now you can hardly tell where the jack was before," says McNamara.
The relocated jack provides another benefit, says McNamara. "In the past, an upright support for the haybine's pto shaft was always in the way when I cranked the jack. Now there's nothing in the way when cranking the jack so it's not a problem."
McNamara says there are thousands of similar New Holland haybines on the market that have the same problem. "I don't know why the company doesn't move the jack farther back, because there's plenty of room," he notes.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bruce McNamara, 29425 Clearline Rd., Solway, Minn. 56678 (ph 218 467-3342; marilynm@paulbunyan.net).
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