PRUDENT PLANNING

I didn’t have to wait long to try out the repair to the needle drive brake on the B47 baler. After a wet week the weather settled down and after consulting the seven-day forecast I risked it and went off to cut the eight-acre field I had taken on this year.

The baler went fine. I can say without a word of a lie that it has never missed a knot since I have had it. This came as a pleasant surprise as I had read some terrible reports about these balers and especially the knotters. I really must stop looking at these forums on the internet and make my own mind up.

Human nature

To me, it is part of human nature that causes the critical reviews. If everything is going fine most people don’t bother to mention it, they are just content everything is ok. But if something is playing up, especially at crucial times like haymaking, they vent their fury on these sites to anybody that will listen. And as some wise old bird commented on one site I looked at if a machine is badly