Posted by Texasmark1 on September 13, 2012 at 13:21:25 from (67.142.175.20):
This time it's stem conditioning/crushing. I have been running sudanxsorghum....seed available for a reasonable price and provided a super crop, for years. Got this wild idea I would dispense with that for several reasons. Also I retired and sold all my haying equip.
Got back into haying last year due to obtaining some cattle (again) and the drought and prices for hay and lack of support for custom bailers doing a small acreage, especially when you needed them to come out. I bought some down sized equipment to do what I needed for my current requirement.
One of my ongoing peeves was sickle bar cutters like used on the JD 1209 which, as you surely know, had a crimper, even though it was a benevolent albatross for a small operation. I had just had enough of them. So I bought a 6' drum mower that works really well; really like it. Problem is, it doesn't crush/condition and if I went back to sudan to get a sizeable yield out of my current hay patch, I definitely will need a crimper or something.
I had thought about cutting with my drum and then coming back with a regular shredder and just chop the stuff into small pieces so that it could dry in a reasonable time and I am still toying with that idea. The equipment is here and I know it will work.
The other idea I had was to buy a stand alone crimper but finding one is one thing and figuring out how it would work when you have the crop already down and in a windrow is the other.
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