Thanks for saying that, I was curious how to test that for sure.
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When you spin the flywheel backwards the baler will turn but you will hear the slip clutch clicking as well. It made me scratch my head the first time I noticed it thinking something was broken. 
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The big flywheel on my square baler gearbox has an arrow, showing the original direction the bailer operated in.Most likely were all turning the gearbox the opisite the original.Or we would be cutting right over the electric motor and big pulley belt as Al Frick stated earlyer.That would be loading our wood in the way of the belt and motor too be on the cutting side of the cutting wheel.With the new hollon gear box that most have, maybe certain model bailer gearbox are other direction originally.
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All tractor implants would have the same direction of rotation because there is only one direction of rotation for the tractor PTO. I haven’t seen a baler that reverses the rotation before the gearbox they are directly coupled to the pto shaft.
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Ok thanks dan, i just thought i read some ware some older modles pto went the other way, probley real rare, Or posibly non existant.
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Older tractor had a smaller pto shaft in the USA everything I know of was the same direction. My pasquali Italian tractor has a reverse option physically different gear driven shaft but I think it is only use for running a second axle on a dump trailer at the same ground speed as the tractor drive wheels. I don’t know of any implements that actually spin the opposite direction. Maybe some of our friends across the pond would know better.
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I was just curious if bob chunker had an odd one that turned the other direction, so far were all chunking wood up too 5 inch logs in the opisite direction the gearbox was designed too be worked. really though i think splitting the wood down too the size needed is better anyway on time, and not have too go through are big piles of wood chunks too sort out the too big chunks too hit them with a hatchet. Better too just split the wood small enough too use right off the chunker.
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A few small ones for the Cub Lo-Boy numbered series. The PTO is driven by V-belts. Not really a farm tractor.
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Ok you have me there I thing Gravely might as well but I was thinking 540 pto.
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The wood chunker is back at it again and working fine. Winter is coming and my wood supply is getting low, especially if Jakob makes his USA tour next spring, I am using his wood supply now. I figured this chunked and bagged wood will be all gone by the time he gets here.
The good news is all this will be ready for Jakob next spring.
And I have a lot, lot more to chunk before the snow sets in and changes my chores to shoveling snow. We have snow in the mountains now, less than a foot. The leaves are falling and the mulching, raking and building a composting pile begins.
I just thank Yehovah God in His Son Name Yeshua that my body is healed up and I now can do some harder work. You just do not know how much you use the shoulder until you have injure it. Or any other part of the body that is, it gives you empathy for those who are suffering in their bodies right now. I can now actually lift some weight over my head using my right arm. This body is just going to have to last until I get that new one thank you Almighty God.
I still have all this, to the spilt up too, and four times that amount to haul in that is on the property behind me.
Also this this pile to run though the wood chunker.
I hope and pray everyone is well and may you all be Blessed.
Break time is almost over for me, need to get back to work, but first I need to catch up on what’s going on with you all on the DOW site. RIGHT! It is wonderful some times when you are your own boss, you don’t have any help, but you are your on boss, sigh…
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I hope the world will be calmed down enough that I can come use that wood this spring. I feel very blessed to have this group of guys helping me In all that they have. Thank you. 
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Bob you have been busy. Having a chunker sure makes DOW a lot easier than when we were both using a saw and hatchet.
Glad to. Hear your shoulder is better.
I am within a day of having my truck up and running on wood again. I am still limping around but have nearly recovered from my fall in the shower. Over 6 months so far.
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Bob,
Good to hear from you. Glad you are healing up.
JO has warned us about wood porn. Your photos are too much for my tender eyes. I had to peak between my fingers.
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Ya just think of me being all around it, shoveling it, selecting just the right pieces to chunk. It’s more than I can handle. Lol
Bob
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Do you see something not right here ???
The chunking blade is no longer attach to the shaft. I would say 80% of my welds had cracked and I did not notice it. They were rusty.
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It was cutting through the wood a couple of times before breaking the rest of the good welds off. It is half way through the wood. This will be interesting getting this apart.
I welded to the end of this to attach the blade. So I will have to move the chunker/bailer up the the garage to weld the blade back on.
I might have twenty 35 to 40 lbs. Bags of cherry wood chunked up.
There still a lot of wood to be chunked up. 20 times the pile you see here, (this piles is over my head) to bring up to the house before the pile gets burned this winter. Yikes I am going to be very busy. All my other gasifer, retort charcoal making are on the back burner until I get this chunker operating again.
Bob
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you don’t ever need to worry about fuel again with a supply like that! While your welding up the chunker have a batch going in the retort for your turbo fuel. The native wild cherry on my side of the hill when it’s dry is some of the hardest wood you will ever try to split. I have stalled out my dad’s 28 ton splitter on a few pieces, only other wood IV ever done that with was some dry oak and a super knarled up piece of Doug fir. If that cherry is anything like ours your chunker is getting a beating busting that stuff up!
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Dry oak is no joke. When I had to crack some of these rounds with the hydraulic splitter it exploded them in half about 5 feet away from me, luckily nobody else was around or it would have seriously hurt someone.
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I saw your chunker. You should be able to cut the wood off of that blade enough with a chainsaw to get it out. i think you could blast most of the old weld off with a torch or plasma cutter then grind it the rest of the way down to smooth. Do you have a regular welder that uses rod instead of wire? if you do i would try to clean it the best i could and turn the welder way up and burn it in really hard probably about 3 times. I would use 7018 probably If you taper off the edge of the block there you should be able to weld it in hard enough to hold. if you want to strengthen it up a lot more. You could drill and tap that block/ arm a few times i would probably do it after i welded the blade back on and put a few 1/2 inch or so bolts in it it would hold it think.
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If you don’t have a stick welder you could also get some multi-pass flux core wire. Flux core penetrates really well but you have to make sure it’s multi pass capable to layer welds without compromising the strength of the beads.
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The blade is weld back on. I could tell I did not get the weld penetration on the last weld job so I cranked the welder up on 6 and feed wire at 7 on the wire feed. Jakob North welding. These weld should hold.
I also changed the angle of the blade, it now moves more of a slicing motion and slower movement going across to the cutting anvil on the other side. It will do less chopping of the wood. Hope it still fractures the wood. I like that.
Removed the bottom anvil and I am going to beef up the face plate that holds it in place.
The opposing cutting anvil needs sharpening and the spring loaded base plate needs to be beef up and straightened. This keep the wood sliding in smoothly with out hitting the sharp edge.
I should do the other things I have planned like make the wheel base narrower and remove the extra steel. I still want the put the conveyor belt in with a swing boom for loading a small drump truck like Mike Gibb has. It is a old old Dodge and it has paid for itself may times over. It would be sweet to haul my chunker to the pile and chunk wood then dump the wood back at the house.
I wanted to run this engine on char gas and I have not done this yet. Man I need to get with it and quit using stinky old Dino fuel.
Bob
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