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I've cut oats for hay with the 1209. When the rains come, sometimes you get into the milky head stage. Leaves the moco sticky white when you are done, crushes the seeds, rips a lot off. :) Sometimes I cut the oats regrowth in fall, with plowdown under it. This oats is very light weight, but mature. About shatters all the heads. If you block the rolls open, then how do you get the windrow? The rolls are what speed up the stems, slam them into the back & make them fall into a windrow. Can't see how you can set the machine to make it work out - not shatter the grain, but make a windrow. For the oats to dry, it should be in a nice drapper formed windrow. The cut stems down, form a shelf for th next heads to fall on. Heads up, stems down, neat fan pattern. A mo/co is just piling the material in back, it will not be laid out to dry the heads, protect them. A mo/co actually would kinda lay the stems sideways, with the heads burried in the middle. Be the worst for the grain, esp if you catch a rain. Need the heads out on top. I combine a lot of oats, and used to combine wheat & rye. Here in MN we windrow it all the time. I would not be happy trying to pick up whatever a mo/co created. JIMHO --->Paul
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