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Haying is Challenging now

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wolfman

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With all the rain and weather where you only get one or two fields a week, making hay now is tough. I should be thankful that it is so heavy. The disc mower cuts it ok but the skirting just can't handle the volume, hence major clogs. The teddar wraps
the PTO shaft big time even though all shields are in place. The rake locks up and slides and drags up over a hugh wad. You have to find the slowest low gear tractor for the square baler. You have to watch the round baler like a hawk, straddling massive
windrows is not good. Tractor drawbar assembly will drag a mound of hay and the PTO shaft will wrap in an instant. Plus balers weren't designed for such hugh windrows. It was a treat the other day to do a field of second cut what only a foot tall, not
down and knarled, could even rake a double!
 
Yes that?s always fun have you thought about making a rubber flap that goes under the drawbar to make it more of a smooth flow so the hay won?t get hung up on the baler tongue
 
Mud flap works.Use them on my mowing tractor to keep tall grass out the PTO and on the baler tractor to help mash down the windrow so it can go under the tractor and hitch
 

You have to keep in perspective the number of bales you are making instead of ground being covered.
 
Last year the dairy neighbor had trouble making hay and he wraps his bales..... not much better this year.

It?s just so ever lasting wet every week.

Cant get 3 dry days in a row. For years now.

Any farming has become a chore. Seems we get 12 hours a week dry enough to farm, need 4 tractors and 5 people all going at once to get anything done the few hours we get. The old fashioned one fella on a small farm can?t get anywhere.

Rain rain rain.

Paul
 
I have had a lot of the same problems as you mentioned over the years with haying. Some things that help- use a bolt or short pin on Tedder and haybine/discbine. Put the pin or bolt head down and secure it with a pin or nut so it is tight to the underside of the hitch. You can use big washers on top of tractor drawbar to raise bottom half of implement hitch. This will make it much less likely to catch any hay which will stop your pto shafts from winding up. Nothing worse than having the mower pto shaft grab a wad of hay and then grab a hydraulic hose.
 
a mud flap would be perfect especially one of the really heavy ones and then maybe a carriage bolt up through one of the holes in the drawbar through the flap to hold it in place . That was my only issue I had was I just cut a hole in some belting I had but the hay was so heavy it kept ripping the rubber and it wouldn?t stay where I wanted I to
 
Thanks SV. I have a flap on the drawbar ahead of pin on the round baler tractor and a short bolt for the hitch pin. Heavy windrows start dragging way up front around the rock shaft area, drawbar support area. Most all tractors nowadays have the low drawbar and low PTO (I guess they call it SASE, I call it small Ford design). Kind of wish I still had the old 460 with the high drawbar high PTO design.
 
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