Forget the drum mowers, I want this!

Well, that has got to be one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. Who in the heck would consider that an improvement? I'm not walking up and down 20 acres of hay with that thing. Didn't impress me it was doing all that great either, but then those conditions are tough on any sickle. I'll stick to my haybine.
 
Red Green would have had a cable on that thing and had it wrapped around something in the middle so it worked it's way to the center of the field.
 
Those single unites are designed to mow on steep hills where tractors are not safe. Youtube has some videos of that type of walk behind mowers working where it is difficult for man to walk.
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That is crazy. I do have a spot in the middle of one of my hay fields where the crazy bugger who owned it decided to try a pond. BIG hole in the ground, not a lick of water. I could have told him that the place is all sand and gravel. The banks around that are almost as steep as the video. I can't mow with the haybine, a little with the sickle. But I never would get the baler on that slope...not even gonna try.
 
That's a good one! I would have trouble just walking on that hillside. I would be so off balance from the terrain that I likely would not do it. I walked up a ski hill one time in July and when I got up there I didn't want to walk back down the hill. Finally found a wooded path I could walk down that didn't allow me to see how high I was. Funny too, because heights don't usually bother me.
 
For that kind of sloped situation- fence it off so you don't drive into it, set a water tank and a shelter near the gate and mid growing season put in a couple of spring lambed wethers to control the weeds. Come snowfall, you have roast mutton, lamb brats, sheepskin vest, knotting material for a cap. Mild Tease- sheep farm I know of used to sell pairs to 4 packs of weaned spring lambs for weedeater duty in sloped ground, hillsides and big holes in ground. RN
 

They have windrowers that go on it too, saw a merger style and a rotary tine model. I have not seen how they collect the hay tho on those steep slopes. By hand loose, or with a baler, or? There are some interesting small trucks with a forage box on the back and a hay pickup behind, but those are not going across the steep hills so not for this sort of operation?

Paul
 
Sounds great to me! But that field is 2 miles down the road and the coyotes come thru there nightly...in packs. Only way I am gonna see any lamb chops is if I sit over em all night.
 
(quoted from post at 00:44:01 12/12/14) Sounds great to me! But that field is 2 miles down the road and the coyotes come thru there nightly...in packs. Only way I am gonna see any lamb chops is if I sit over em all night.

That's why we use Pyrenees guard dogs. They live with the sheep 24/7/365. Since getting our Pyrs, we've gone from over 50 lamb/ewe/goat losses a year to zero from predation.
 
How many of you fellers can't see your toes when you look down? Mightcould benefit from a little walking. It beats paying for a gym membership to walk in place...
 

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