Second hay cut. Roller wrapped

Once I fixed the twisted belt on the baler I went back to baling after 6 pm.  I successfully made and net-wrapped two bales.  The third bale - the net-wrap wouldn't stop.  So I turned off the PTO and then restarted the PTO.  The net-wrapping stopped. I unloaded the bale. 

The fourth bale - the net-wrapping also would not stop, even after I stopped and restarted the PTO a number of times.  So I unloaded the bale.  I then used a knife to cut the net-wrap at the bale.  Two times now the net-wrap didn't automatically stop. On the baler I noticed the cutting 'bar' and net-wrap's roll didn't seem to be in position.  I looked in the baler's manual to see if they talked about this.  I couldn't find anything.  So I decided to try to make another bale.

When the bale was getting close to half the size the baler's belts were having trouble turning and the tractor's PTO would struggle to turn the belts.  Initially I thought the windrow was too thick and coming in too fast as that can slow the baler.  I tried a couple of times then quit.  I tried to select for the bale to be net-wrapped but the baler couldn't turn fast enough to net-wrap the bale.  So I unloaded the bale.  Still the baler didn't want to turn the belts when the baler was empty.  I drove back to near my house.

When I was back near my house I noticed the irrigation has stopped again.  That was the second time this day the pump stopped.  It was after 7 pm.  I went and moved the irrigation lines to the next valves and restarted the irrigation pump.

Back home it was getting dark so I quit for the day.   That evening I google searched about this problem.  I found a mention and an image from the baler's manual about how to extend or retract the actuator.  The manual mentioned the actuator was for the twine wrapping, but I found it also affects how the net-wrap is cut.  The next morning I looked at the actuator and it didn't seem to be in the correct position.  I used the baler's monitor to test and extend and retract the actuator and got the actuator to where it looked like it should be.

Then I noticed net-wrap was coming off the net-wrap roll and across the belts at the bottom of the baler.

I better cut the net-wrap of the belts and remove the net-wrap.  I struggled to pull the net-wrap off the baler so I opened the baler.  Then I noticed the top roller was wrapped with net-wrap.  I got a ladder and climbed up to look.  

The roller was so thick with net-wrap that the small space around the roller for two of the eight belts was completely filled and this was what caused all the belts from turning.

Oh boy.

The net-wrap was between the belts and the roller.  Ideally I could unlace the belts so I could then cut the net-wrap off, but I couldn't turn the belts so the lacing would be in a position where I could remove the lacing pin from the belt.  This is bad.

I could wiggle and pull on a belt to move it over onto the next belt.  Then I could cut the net-wrap on the roller.  I had various knives, a saw and a hacksaw.  The net-wrap was several inches thick and harder to cut that one would think. I cut the net-wrap to find the roller and so I could 'split' it to remove it from the roller. But then I had to cut the net-wrap from around the roller next to the next belt, so I could pull the net-wrap off the roller.    And the net-wrap would expand after I cut it.

Late Friday Donna suggested that maybe using an extra curling iron she had may help me burn the net-wrap.  I asked Curtis if he had a tool to burn things.  He did.  An old tool - made in West Germany.  That old.   Curtis said he got the tool from a friend who would burn/melt styrofoam when the styrofoam was used in a building build project.  

Even using Curtis's tool at the end to burn/melt the net-wrap from around the roller next to the next belt, it took me Friday to cut the net-wrap from one belt location.  

I had 7 more belts to the cut the net-wrap from. Saturday I should get more net-wrap removed from my tractor.  But then Saturday I had another major disaster that took a good part of the day away from fixing my baler.

Second hay cut done. Belt twist.

Tuesday the baling was finished on my second hay cut.   The baling was finished - I wasn't the person who finished it.  Things had kept going downhill.  I was on a highway to Hell.

I had started baling the hay around 2 pm last Thursday afternoon.  If things had gone well I would have completed the baling on Thursday.  I had a problem with the first bale.  The baler should have net-wrapped the bale, but it didn't.  Instead the STOP indicator on the baler console flashed. I checked.  No, not net-wrapped.  I hit the manual net-wrap button.  No net-wrap.  The STOP indicator kept flashing.   Finally I figured out the problem.  After all these years of using the baler, this time when I turned the baler on, I moved the button to the 'twine' symbol and not the 'net-wrap' symbol.  This is the first time I ever done this.   Maybe it was due to my recent lack of sleep.

I set the button to the 'net-wrap' symbol and pushed the manual net-wrap button.  The baler spun the bale and then the console said the bale was net-wrapped.  I checked and looked through the belts.  It seemed like the bale was net-wrapped.  I didn't trust it.  I pushed the manual net-wrap button again.  Then after the baler was done I dumped the bale from the baler.  The bale was only partially net-wrapped.  As the bale rolled out of the baler the bale partially unrolled.  I then had to push and push the bale to completely unroll it.  Then I'll have the baler go over the hay again to make it into a bale to be net-wrapped.

First I had to bale the rest of the windrow as trying to turn around back to the unrolled hay would have messed up other windrows.   A few minutes into making the next bale from the windrow, the baler started slow down to lock up.  I looked at the baler.  One of the belts twisted around.  How did that happen?  How could that happen?

I had to dump the small partial bale from the baler.  Then I worked at twisting the belt back to the normal way.  I worked and worked and could not twist the belt back.  The space around this roller was too small to twist the belt.

Maybe if two people tried to twist the belt they could twist it.  I asked my neighbor Curtis for help.  We worked and worked on twisting the belt but could not twist it back to normal.  We then thought about unlacing the belt so we could pull part of the belt up through the twist out of the rollers.  Oh.. but wait a minute.  Where the lacing was located was at one of the few points in the baler where one could not reach to pull the lacing pin out.  And due to the twist I could not move the belts around the baler.  So we went back trying to untwist the belt by hand.  As part of our actions I tried to have the baler at times move the belts around.  Maybe our untwisting and the attempt of the baler to move the belts would work and the belt would untwist.  But no.  But after a while I saw the belts had moved a few feet, and now the lacing was where we could work on it to pull the lacing pin.

I was holding the lacing while Curtis worked at trying to remove the pin.  I saw the lacing was not flat so by hand I tried to flatten it.  Guess what?  I somehow broke the pin in two.  How?  Who knows.  The pin has to be strong special steel in order to hold the laces together.  And by hand I broke it?!

I then looked over and saw my irrigation had stopped.  While Curtis continued to remove the now two pieces of pin I went and restarted the irrigation pump.  When I returned he had the broken pieces of pin out and had pulled part of the belt out and untwisted it.  It took both of us - me on high and he on low - to rethread the belt around the rollers and rods.

Then I had to go to John Deere and buy a new pin for lacing these style of belts.  That meant driving 12 miles to the other side of town during rush hour as it was now 4:30 pm.  Fortunately the highway was 4 lanes when I had to pass a truck towing a large mobile home house.  Who tows a large mobile home during rush hour?!

I bought 4 pins.  I never had to replace any in the past, but it is better to have some extra pins if something like this happens again during the weekend, or after hours.

Curtis and I put the pin in the lacing and fixed the problem.  Now I was back to baling my hay.  I may not get it all done now on Thursday, but I should get a lot of it done.

But then things got worse.  Who would have thought.   But that description is for another day as it is complex and I'm still trying to catch up on my sleep.

I forgot to take a picture of the twisted belt, but here is a picture of the lacing before Curtis and I put the pin back into the lacing.

Raking and then problems with second hay cutting

I'm having major problems with my baler and haven't baled my hay yet. And I'm still getting up early to move my irrigation pipes.  So I am going to bed earlier and this post will be short.

Last Wednesday I raked my hay to turn over the hay for drying.  I raked two rows in one row to make it quicker and less work for my baler.  If I counted right I think I ended up with 21 rows.  I first had to clean my haybine Wednesday before storing it until next year.  So I got a late start to my hay raking Wednesday afternoon.  I finished the raking quickly early Thursday afternoon.

Unraked and raked rows

Also slowing my raking down is that the 90+ temperatures has caused my irrigation pump to turn off.  Now twice a day.  Around 4 pm and around 7 pm.  On my hay raking day and my first day trying to bale my hay.  Donna recommended since the weather forecast was for 90+ degree temperatures for a number more days I should just irrigate at night and turn off the pump during the day so I don't have to deal with the pump turning off on its own.  So I did. I still get up at 7 am to move the pipes for the day and then turn off the pump.  In the evening at 7 pm I only have to start the pump, not move the pipes.  The morning is cooler and less mosquitoes when moving the pipes.   Normally tonight would be the end of my irrigation for the year but now it appears it will be on Wednesday morning.  I am looking forward to the end of my irrigation work as getting up at 7 am is rough on me and I'm not getting my normal amount of sleep.

Finished second hay cutting, and more

On my second day of hay cutting, Monday, I finished cutting the hay in the hayfield.  I finished at 6 pm.   I then got the idea of cutting some of the grass in the pastures.  Wait. What?  Aren't the cattle eating the grass in the pastures?   Yes.  But what I wanted to cut was the tall grass.  Grass that is drying out and going brown and is stem-y and tough.  And grass tall enough that if it falls against a sprinkler can cause the sprinkler's clapper to stop working and turning the sprinkler.

Between all our Spring rain, and the cattle spending one to two weeks in my neighbor's Ruth's field, the grass in the south and middle pastures took off as the cattle wasn't in them early to eat the grass down.  Cattle prefer young, moist and tender grass to eat, not tall tough grass that is hard to eat.  They tend to avoid eating this type of grass.   I decided to set the haybine higher off the ground to cut the tall grass and leave the lower grass alone.  The cut grass will re-grow and be softer.  If the cattle want, they can eat the cut grass.  I've never had to cut the grass in the pastures before.

I have two sprinkler lines in the south pasture.  The active one, and the third line I use when I am moving one of the other irrigation lines.  I only cut the grass up to the active line, or half the field.  I removed a couple of pipes on the third line so I had room to drive around the irrigation line on each end.

It took longer than I expected and I didn't finish cutting the south pasture until almost 9 pm. Now that the pasture was cut down some I let the cattle come into the pasture.  If they wanted to eat some of the cut grass, fine.   The first thing the cattle did was run over to the tree that had broken off and fell to the ground a few days ago.  They surrounded the tree and looked to be eating the needles.  Really?  That's what you want to eat?

It was getting late to move irrigation lines.  I decided to only move the line that goes in the middle and north pastures as that line is a few valves behind the south pasture line.  First I had to move the pipes back into the third line so I could use it.   I also had to place the valve opener back on the valve.  That can be trickier when it is the last thing to do, not the first.  I was having trouble getting the valve opener back on the valve.  Then I got stung.  Then stung again.  I discovered a black wasp next was nearby.   I tried a few times to get the valve opener back on and got stung again.  And again.   I had to go home and get a can of wasp spray. The wasp spray slowed the wasps down and kept them away from me and I was able to get the valve opener back onto the valve.

It was getting dark quickly now.  No moon was out.   My line movement went slow.  Each time I moved a pipe I had to look for the line of pipes to get a pipe, then look for the line of pipes where I was putting the pipe.  After I moved all the pipes I walked back to the valve opener.  It was so dark I walked into the barb wire fence that separates the north and middle pastures.  Ouch.   After opening the valve I had to trust I moved the pipes correctly and the sprinklers were straight and not at an angle.  I couldn't see them.

Tuesday afternoon I decided to cut down some the tall grass in the middle and north pastures.  Again only to the irrigation line.  Two-thirds in the middle pasture.   In the north pasture I only cut the tall and dead grass in a third of the pasture.  The rest of the pasture was fine.  I didn't get done cutting until 8 pm.  I was able to move the irrigation line by 9:30 pm.  It was getting dark but wasn't dark.  So the line move went well.

Photos from the middle pasture.

Sprinkler line ahead.

Started second hay cut

Today I started doing my second hay cutting.  I wanted to wait for the grass and alfalfa to dry more after the irrigation.  It has been a week now.  I was leaning to wait a little longer but looking at the alfalfa most all of it has bloomed.  Generally it is preferred to cut alfalfa at 25% to 50% bloom.  Also, it is recommended not to cut alfalfa less than 4 to 6 weeks before the first killing frost so the plants can store up enough food reserves to survive the Winter.  So waiting longer to cut my hayfield is not ideal.

Yesterday I replaced a partially broken cutting tooth on my haybine.  The tooth's position on the sickle bar made it more of an effort, but I got it done.  This afternoon when I started the cut, nothing was cut.  I checked and the sickle bar was not moving.  After replacing that tooth yesterday I turned the drive shaft bar by hand and the sickle bar moved. So why wasn't it moving now that I hooked the haybine up to the tractor's PTO?

The flywheel turned.  That was run by a chain that turned a small wheel that turned the flywheel.  Also connected to this small wheel was another small wheel that had a belt on it that connected to another small wheel which then moved the sickle bar.    The chain's small wheel turned and then so did the initial small wheel with the belt on it.  But the second small wheel that moved the sickle bar did not turn and therefore the belt did not move.

I got a sledgehammer to pound on the sickle bar mover.  Eventually I got the sickle bar mover to move.  Okay... let's try cutting again.

I drove back out to the hayfield, set the haybine down to the ground, tested the sickle bar, it moved.  But when I started to drive to cut the hay the sickle bar stopped moving.  I raised the haybine off the ground and the sickle bar started moving.   Where I had started cutting was at the corner of the hayfield.  At that spot was grass and not alfalfa.  The cut grass would clog up the teeth and stop the sickle bar from moving.  That shouldn't happen.  My guess is that the grass was so full of moisture that is why it would jam up the sickle bar.  I moved forward a few feet to the alfalfa and tried cutting.  It worked.  The alfalfa could be cut.  Still, the alfalfa had lots of moisture so I would have to drive slower than I expected.  At least I could now cut the hayfield.

It wasn't until 2 pm that I was able to start cutting.  I cut non-stop as I have a lot to cut.  A few hours later I started to fall asleep while driving.  I'm still moving irrigation pipes in the pastures and not getting enough sleep.  To get more awake I turned on the tractor's air conditioner and closed the window to make it cooler inside.  I also went in the house and got the ear muffs Donna had given me to make it quieter.   The cooler temperature helped me stay awake.  Even though the ear muffs deadened the tractor and haybine's noise, I turned on the tractor's radio (loud) and was able to hear music while wearing the ear muffs, and that also helped me stay awake.

I was going to cut until dark or the dew appeared.  Instead a little while after the sun went behind the ridge for sunset, sections of the cut alfalfa and grass would lay on the haybine's teeth.  It didn't stop the sickle bar but covering some of the teeth mean the teeth had trouble cutting new alfalfa and grass. Even driving at a slower speed didn't help things. The dew had not arrived yet, but the lack of sun and cooler temperatures somehow made the alfalfa and grass seem more moist.  So I called it quit for the day.

I was able to cut over half the hayfield.  Unless something goes wrong tomorrow I should be able to finish the cut tomorrow.

Look at all those alfalfa blooms.

For much of the hot afternoon the cattle laid in the shade and watched me cut the hayfield.

Broken tree

Between moving irrigation pipes twice a day, and the high temperatures, my sleep schedule is messed up.  Today I went to sleep at 4:30 pm to catch up on my sleep.  I slept for almost two hours.  Apparently I slept hard.  At one point I kind of woke very briefly as I thought I heard some thunder.  When I got up later I seen the ground was wet.   Oh, it must have rained.

When I went out to move irrigation pipes I saw in the south pasture a top third of a large tree had broken off.   What went on when I was sleeping?

According to the weather service...

So that is why part of the tree was broken off.

As you can see the trunk is large.

I'm still irrigating this field.  So I now have work to do with my chainsaw.  Just what I need.

Morning dew

It hasn't rained here in weeks.  And the temperature has been hot.  Yet most mornings is very dewy.  Here is a view this morning after 7 am when I went out to move irrigation pipes.  Even the barn roof is wet from dew.  The sun is quickly drying the roof.  It takes longer for the dew to leave the grass.

Third tree stump removed

Earlier in July, before I had let the cattle back into the middle pasture, I removed the third tree stump this year.  It was a tree stump I had dug around in May of this year.  I was able to chainsaw the stump to remove it.

This was a stump I had kept for the cattle rub against.  They then broke the stump off.

Even though the stump was a number of years old, parts of it were solid and looked like they had some sap in them.

The stump was odd.  I found two sections, and a large side root.

Time to get the chainsaw out and see what it can do.  I was able to cut off the two sections of the stump.  I also was able to cut through the side root.  I just hadn't hauled off the side root before I took the photo.

Cut and done.

Cattle jailbreak, irrigation pipe movement, weeds

This morning when I went out to move the irrigation sprinkler lines I noticed some animals in Wyatt's field along the fence with one of his neighbors.  Horses?   What a minute... where are my cattle?   As I got closer I saw they were my cattle in Wyatt's field.

I opened the corner gate to Wyatt's field and walked out to herd them.  Umm... less than half the cattle were there.   I looked and saw the rest way further in Wyatt's field.  They were over halfway to Wyatt's house.  I walked over and herded them back to my field.  Both groups of cattle merged and went towards my gate.   At the gate they just stood there.   Go through the gate!  I had to herd a number to go though the gate.   Panda, Red, Haynes and a few others turned and walked back further into Wyatt' field.

I closed the gate to keep the rest of the cattle in my pasture and went back to herd the rest to my pasture.  Eventually I got everyone into my pasture.  I then had to count to see all where there.  They were.

Now to find out how they escaped my pasture.  I walked along my fence and discovered the gate closer to the river was wide open.  The gate has a sliding handle.  There is also a chain that can be wrapped around to stop the handle from moving.  The chain was on the wrong side of the handle.  My guess is that when Kelly was hunting last fall and shot a deer across the fence just in Wyatt's field he opened the gate.  When closing the gate he didn't position the chain to stop the handle movement.  Normally one doesn't position a chain to stop the handle movement, but they don't have cattle that can figure out how to slide the handle to open the gate.

I positioned the chain correctly.   Then it was open to finally move the irrigation lines.  As I did the cattle all stayed next to the gate I had herded them through.  I guess they were waiting for me to reopen that gate.

After I finished moving the second irrigation line I saw the cattle were now at the gate they opened earlier.   This time they couldn't slide the gate handle to open the gate.

After moving the sprinkler lines I worked on moving the mainline pipes from the hayfield.  I got all the aluminum pipes moved and stacked in the south pasture.  I then moved 5 of the 11 steel pipes.  I had to take a break and eat breakfast.  Tomorrow I plan on moving the rest of the steel pipes from the hayfield.

In the afternoon I decided to spray the rest of the weeds in the north pasture.  I had one backpack tank's worth left to spray.  I thought.  Earlier, before I got to cutting my and Donna's hay, and starting my irrigation, I had sprayed the yard, ditches, the bull thistle in the neighbor's field across the road, corral, fruit tree area, NE pasture, and almost all of the north pasture.  Before spraying the one section left to spray I went over all the areas I earlier sprayed.  I wanted to spray the weeds I missed earlier.  I found more weeds than I expected.  I didn't quite make it to the section left to spray.  Dang.  Usually it can take me on average an hour and a half to go through a tank of herbicide.  Today it took me 3 hours and 40 minutes.  I had a lot of walking to do.  Much longer than I expected and the day was 90 degrees and hot.

The section left to spray, and an area before that section, dried out.  Most everything is brown and dormant.  Of course the weeds overall are green and not dormant.   The yarrow weeds, since they have shallow roots, are dormant or on their way to being dormant.  Their dormancy doesn't mean they don't have seeds.  Tomorrow I plan to pull the yarrow and collect their seeds.   Of course I'd rather spray the yarrow and kill them as pulling the weeds doesn't seem like it gets all of their roots and they come back next year.  But dormant, or near dormant, means spraying them to kill them is worthless.  At least collecting their seeds means I won't have more yarrow weeds.  Just that the spraying of them will be work next year.

Irrigation: hayfield done

This morning I moved the last of the irrigation pipes out of the hayfield and into the pastures.  It is nice to be done irrigating the hayfield.  The grass and alfalfa are getting tall and my pants got wet up to the height halfway between my knees and hip.  It was extra work moving the pipes from the hayfield over the fence to the pastures.  I'd like to be done with moving irrigation pipes as it is getting old to do. But the pastures are a mix of green and dry.  So they could use some watering.

Since the irrigation lines are in the pastures now, I disconnected the mainline pipes in the hayfield.  I placed the end plug on the last pipe in the pastures.  The job to do over the next few days is moving the hayfield's mainline pipes back to be stacked in the south pasture.

Notes about my recent sprinkler problems.  My neighbor Curtis said he could fix the sprinklers where the sprinklers would shoot out of the fitting and cause a geyser.

On the left is a good sprinkler.  On the right is a sprinkler that wore out the "bump" that keeps the sprinkler head in the fitting and also allows it to turn.

Here is a sprinkler Curtis fixed.   After I got the fixed sprinklers (three), I had another sprinkler wear out and a geyser. That's the fourth failure this year. I was able to use a sprinkler Curtis had fixed to replace the broken sprinkler.  Curtis is amazing as to what he can do.

Then a few days ago a sprinkler post broke off the irrigation pipe when I was moving it.  This post is a steel post.  Why a steel post and not an aluminum post?  My guess is because the sprinkler is a model 70.  This is a larger sprinkler.  You can see the sprinkler end fits over the post, not inside the post.

Even though the irrigation pipes are aluminum, this pipe is steel and the valve is also steel.  So they can be welded together.

Broken hay bales

Donna sold the rest of her hay bales.  She ended up with four or five broken hay bales and gave them to me so her field will be clean.  I barely fit them in my barn.  The cattle don't care if the bales are twined or broken.

Elmo fire

Over 40 miles away, in Elmo, Montana, they have had a large fire since July 29.  It is still growing.  Here is a recent photo from a local newspaper, the Flathead Beacon.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2022/08/03/primary-residences-outbuildings-among-structure-losses-reported-from-elmo-fire/

Here is a view of the smoke from the fire as seen from my place Tuesday afternoon.

Irrigation geyser

This morning when I woke up I saw that one of the sprinklers in the south irrigation line had come off and a geyser had erupted.  Again a sprinkler shot off the irrigation pipe.  That makes three in ten days.  What is going on? I only had two or three do this in the many years I have been irrigating.

The sprinkler must have come off sometime during the night as the grass around was flattened and torn apart by the force of the falling water.

Taking off the part that screws into the irrigation pipe was challenging.  It didn't want to come off.  I had to go and get a pipe to put over one wrench so I had more leverage to turn the fitting.  I finally was able to do so.   Then I put a new sprinkler on the pipe.

My neighbor Curtis was outside when I was moving the north sprinkler line.  I asked him if I was possible to fix the sprinkler.  He said he would look at it later.  He wanted me to bring him a sprinkler that works so he could compare them.

The sprinkler on the left works.  The one on the right shot off the screw-in bottom part of the sprinkler.  

On the left the sprinkler has a "bump" that holds the sprinkler into the bottom part.  The right looks to be flat with no "bump".

The hayfield was very dewy this morning.   We haven't had rain for a while, and it has been hot and dry.  I don't know why it was so dewy.  I wear this mud boots Donna gave me as a Christmas or birthday gift a year or two ago.  But the hayfield is growing tall.  My pants were wet from above my knees.  Even though I was wearing the boots, the pants inside the boots and the socks I wore all got soaking wet.

Here you can see where I started the irrigation ten days ago.  This is in the north pasture that abuts the hayfield.  Looks like when I am done irrigating the hayfield I will have to irrigate the pastures.

This morning before I walked out to move the irrigation pipes, here where three hot air balloons floating by.  By the time I got my camera the first two hot air balloons landed on the ridge behind the trees.

This evening when I was moving my second irrigation line a motorcyclist stopped and offered to help me.  I tried to refuse help, but he insisted, so I accepted his help.   I have seen this motorcyclist a number of times in the past when I am riding my bicycle.  He was friendly and nodded or waved when I was on my bicycle and he was on his motorcycle.  I believe he told me his name is Billy.  I now know where he lives.

Irrigation and reset buttons

I am still irrigating the hayfield.  I made it across the hayfield this weekend and now I am heading back.  I lost another sprinkler when it wore out and shot off and created a geyser.  My irrigation pump shut off a couple more times, Sunday and Monday afternoon.  Our high temperature had reached the mid 90s and I believe that causes the pump to shut off.   

The Sunday afternoon shutoff was different.  I couldn't restart the pump as it appeared I had no power.  I turned the breaker off-and-on but that didn't help.  Ruth's granddaughter's significant other also works for the electric co-op.  He was over at Ruth's and I asked him for help.  I thought it may be possible the electric co-op's power line tripped a fuse.  No, that was not the problem.  He went back and got his voltage meter.  He also brought a relative of Ruth's, who was visiting and had worked for a Nevada electric company for 32 years before he retired.  The two checked and I had power to my breaker, and power past the breaker.  I also have an electrical section that will turn off the pump if the pump loses water pressure.  That section had no power.  Then they discovered two reset buttons in that section.  After the reset buttons were pressed my pump again had power.   My pump was not made after, I believe, 1964.  The electric control panel is from back then also.  Most likely the 40s or 50s.  I'm glad a part was not broken as I doubt "Westinghouse" no longer makes that part or is even around anymore.    On Monday I again had to press the reset buttons.  This is the third or fourth time this year that my pump shut off due to the heat.  The first times I didn't have to press the reset buttons.  I had forgotten the electric panel had reset buttons.  Today the temperature did not reach the 90s and my pump did not turn off.