probably gonna buy it guys!

Still haven't heard from anyone who knows how they work in swamp/marsh hay. I'm thinking that 14' may be just too big of a swath for our little Massey 12 baler and our Fox 3000 chopper. It's a hell of a load chopping it as it is behind our 9 ft machine....
Donovan from Wisconsin

I bought one from the neighbor last year. It had old car tires on it. The parts book, which I have, calls for 9.50L X 14 tires, but I put a set of 11L 15's and they look OK to me. I used it a little bit and it worked well after a fashion. It needed and still needs some work. It will get new sections this spring along with a new seal in the pump. I had problems with plugging the right side of the cutterbar, but all the tines on the right side of the reel were broken off. After new tines and sections, hopefully she will work good this summer. By the way what is the "+2"? mine is just a 1014. E-mail is open if you want to drop me a line.

John

Once I hook it onto a tractor I'll have to try it out in the yard before we take it, but if it seems to work it's coming home.

Donovan from Wisconsin

PS : The cost of fuel doesn't bother me so much with only 6 acres of hay to do but if the object is to make money ( or save money as the case may be ) that's a consideration right ?

My Dad and I are weekend farmers of sorts so the curing time doesn't affect us as much. We're still hanging onto our 9 ft machine for swamps and back up. We normally pull 3 windrows together for 2nd and 3rd crop, and in the past we have done it with the 1st crop. With a 14' machine, we will be pulling 2 windrows together and there won't be a 3rd in the middle on the bottom (unturned) so it will probably actually speed up the drying time for us. We've used a 14' machine before and it worked pretty good for us.

Donovan from Wisconsin