Does this guy need to get a day job?

Bill Crowell · Jun 19, 2017

How many things can you find wrong with this picture?

Tell me if you think this guy knows the slightest thing about mowing hay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjlxYzL_N-w&t=276s

I'm not much of a farmer myself, but what he's doing just seems wrong. If I am mistaken, feel free to let me know.

55 50 Ron · Jun 19, 2017

Explain what you think is wrong. That's a disc mower and it looks perfectly normal and proper to me as to what he's doing.

Bill Crowell · Jun 19, 2017

OK, sorry if I was being too judgmental of the man. It just seemed that he was mowing way too fast and messing up the hay before it could be baled, but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me.

WellWorn · Jun 19, 2017

If I had a few hundred thou to get brand new equipment like that with which to cut poor quality weed lots to make "hay", and could find people ignorant enough (or desperate enough) to buy it at a price that would cover the amortization of the equipment, I wouldn't need a "day job". He may not be a "farmer", yet, but I gotta give him credit for following his dream.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Some get to start higher than others. I wish him well.

paul · Jun 19, 2017

Disc and drum mowers can cut very fast. Sometimes in farming we trade speed for a small bit of quality. He was driving across windrows more than needed. I didn't realize a drum mower windrowed the grass that much.

As the other fella says, the scope of the business plan is something else again. Buy new equipment, mow thin grass and weeds, and figure that will be a better payday than welding or YouTube income....... Well good luck.

Paul

JMOR · Jun 19, 2017

(quoted from post at 16:10:01 06/19/17) Disc and drum mowers can cut very fast. Sometimes in farming we trade speed for a small bit of quality. He was driving across windrows more than needed. I didn't realize a drum mower windrowed the grass that much.

As the other fella says, the scope of the business plan is something else again. Buy new equipment, mow thin grass and weeds, and figure that will be a better payday than welding or YouTube income....... Well good luck.

Paul

robably looking at equipment that will go back to bank at end of season!

John M · Jun 19, 2017

Lanse, stick with welding.

tomturkey · Jun 19, 2017

I've never mowed hay with a disc mower, but, what they tell me is, you can mow so fast you can't stay in the seat. At that time you need to slow down, a little. That's just what I've been told. gobble

farmerwithmutt · Jun 19, 2017

I had a cousin working for me one year . Asked him if he knew how to cut yes he did so i sent him out to cut hay. I did some chores and went and checked on him he was driving backwards around the field driving on the standing hay. It was the field farthest and least visible from the road soon i had plenty of free advice on how hay should be cut . Funny thing after i straighten him out and got him cutting correctly by driving on the cut hay he said it was easier that way. I gave the hay to a guy that was filling silo because so much had been run down and didn't think i could get it dry after he dug a few slugs out of the chopper he said it was the most expensive free hay he ever got.

rrlund · Jun 19, 2017

?

What am I looking for that's wrong?

It's a drum mower. I'll admit,he could be going a little faster. I cut 20 acres in three hours with my 9 foot disc mower/conditioner today. I guess beginners don't dare push it.
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jon f mn · Jun 19, 2017

I don't see anything to bad wrong here either. He could cut twice as fast as he is if the field was smooth.

rrlund · Jun 19, 2017

Deere salesman told me one time that you'd have to go 22 MPH to overrun the knives.

4xMF · Jun 19, 2017

Nothing wrong there. In a light crop like that he could easily go faster depending on how even the ground is as you don´t want the mower to bump up and down too much. I use a mower like this, just another brand, and I’ll go with his speed in a crop twice as heavy.

moresmoke · Jun 19, 2017

Looks fine to me. Some of you guys that are commenting how thin the grass is should realize not everyone in this world is blessed with great grass.
Last week I got to try out a top of the line self propelled wind rower with a disk mower. Best I could do was 5 mph, the field was so rough. Should be able to go 10-12 easily. Also learned that damp gopher mounds can plug a disk mower.

steve706 · Jun 19, 2017

Funny thing is I watched this video before this thread was posted, and I knew instantly somebody on here would take a shot at him for one reason or another. Lanse doesn't pretend to be more than what he is and if he wants to diversify his income and branch into agriculture, good for him. He's been on this forum since he was a kid and compared to some others, he's done pretty well and has been an asset like Old, rrlund,genebender,etc. People getting into agriculture at any age these days is a good thing, and there is always a learning curve.

dr sportster · Jun 20, 2017

He states below the video that youtube income paid for the tractor; smart guy.

RodinNS · Jun 20, 2017

I think you would be absolutely petrified if you knew how fast a discbine will cut. 12-15 mph is well within range provided you have smooth ground and the crop is not so heavy that it plugs the conditioner. A straight disc mower... that will just plain cut FAST!
I'd wager Lanse was only moving 5-6 mph in his video which is a very normal speed. I normally like to run 8-10 mph provided the ground allows it.

Rod

495man · Jun 20, 2017

(quoted from post at 11:23:43 06/19/17) How many things can you find wrong with this picture?

Tell me if you think this guy knows the slightest thing about mowing hay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjlxYzL_N-w&t=276s

I'm not much of a farmer myself, but what he's doing just seems wrong. If I am mistaken, feel free to let me know.

Can't really find anything he did wrong? Only thing that if it'd been me I'd of taken the 2 minutes to remove the loader before mowing, but given his Zetor broke he likely didn't want to mess around figuring it out when he had hay to cut.

Always someone thinking everything still has to be done at horse speed.

Keith Molden · Jun 21, 2017

I have a drum mower 1 size smaller than that one and I will tell you that if you haven't operated a drum or disc mower, you really do not know what you're missing. They will mow as fast as you care to drive and will not plug up. I could not see a thing that he was doing wrong. The only thing I could see is he was enjoying a nice new air conditioned cab where I don't have that luxury LOL.

ptfarmer · Jun 21, 2017

I've been in fields that you have to go twice as slow as he was in places just so you can stay in seat, and not get tossed around like a rag doll.

Does this guy need to get a day job?

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