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Buying a Haybine

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Kevin5456

01-20-2007 16:27:49




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What should I look for when I go to look at hay bines? I do not have a particular one in mind but i am interested in getting one. Thanks,
Kevin




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Shovelman

01-21-2007 08:58:42




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  
If you are making the jump into a haybine, have you considered going a bit further and get a Discbine?

If you have the horsepower and a few more bucks, a disc mower will give you more production and enable you to cut in more adverse conditions.



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Delbert

01-21-2007 05:17:53




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  
All good advice also check and make the frame is not cracked or sprung. Check wobble boxes etc.



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johns48jdb

01-20-2007 17:13:11




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  
ditto all the other inputs. i prefer one steel roller and one rubber one. the header on machines should be heavy to pick up by hand. if they are the springs just need adjusting until it "floats" over the ground, but still stay in contact with the ground all the time. i particullary like the jd mid mounts. they are ease to turn on the ends and going around obsticles in the field is a dream with the pivoting steering. depending on where you just going to cut grass or sudax type crops will drive where you need rollers or just a frail type conditioner. johnson grass and thicker stemed plants need the double roller type. i don"t know if anybody makes one with the disk cutters and rollers or not, if they do thats what i would buy. replacing rivited in type blades out in the sun is no fun.

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Jason Simmerman

01-20-2007 17:06:35




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  
Those guys advice is good, but I also wanted to add one more thing. Don't get a haybine that you have to drive 60 or 70 miles to get parts for if they can even be had at all. If you do any amount of cutting you need to be able to get replacement parts. Things are gonna break, thats the way of it. Keep that in mind as well.



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KEH

01-20-2007 16:58:15




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  

Obviously look at rust. NH sheet metal is thin. If rubber on rollers is starting to turn loose and bare metal is showing, don't get it. Rubber can't be replaced, new rollers are expensive and replacing rollers is a big job. Look at cutter bar and see if it is straight and not bowed up from hitting something. Look for broken welds, especially on tongue and on underside of tongue. On a NH it would be nice if the belt that drives the blade is new because the belt is a job to replace. Hesston is made of thicker material. NH "floats" on rough ground a little better. Look at skid plates under cutter bar for excessive wear. Listen to it run if possible. Have fun. Hope this helps.

KEH

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Larry NE IL

01-20-2007 19:47:47




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to KEH, 01-20-2007 16:58:15  
Listen to it run is right! Should sound like a noisy typwriter. Any loud racket means something isn't aligned right, especially around the cutterbar.



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old

01-20-2007 16:45:48




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 Re: Buying a Haybine in reply to Kevin5456, 01-20-2007 16:27:49  
The rollers are the big thing. Make sure they are good and not comeing off or missing pieces. Also look at any/all chains and sprockets and make sure they are good and the sprockets aren't worn out.



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