BOX OF TREASURES

Receiving feedback (good or bad) from my monthly articles is always pleasing. It lets me know that at least someone is out there reading my ramblings. A few editions back during hay time, I wrote about the problems I had with the old bale sledge I bought and was using for the first time.

Past experience

I have received a highly informative letter from David O’Brian regarding the sledge. Th is is what he remembers. “As a boy, I always remember my father baling with a New Performance Super Major and New Holland 68 in the mid-Sixties. He bolted a long length of steel vertically to the nearside mudguard. Just above head height, he fixed a small metal pulley to the top of the steel.

“Cord was run from the sledge over the top of the baler and through the pulley. The end of the cord was tied to a spare lower link end to act as a weight. The trick was to have the weight just resting on the footplate with the cord taut and with the baler at rest. The weight could move up and down as the baler turned, or