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Haybine, Moco lift cylinder question

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Assuming one has relatively flat hay fields: How often do have to adjust the hydraulic lift cylinder when cutting hayfields with a Haybine or Moco? Is lifting required for road transport only?

Where I am going with this is would it be possible to use an older tractor that has the horsepower (Case DC with MW's or Firecrater's) but no hydraulics to run a Haybine or Moco? I would be using a hand crank ratchet cylinder in place of the usual hydraulic cylinder. (My field is relatively flat. I do have an incline in one area but it is a flat incline).
 
You only need to raise it to turn around, or if it starts to plug, or when making sharp turn, or avoing hen pheasant nests, stumps or rocks, or getting to the field and back, or repairing broken sections, or checking for guard damage. Other than that you can leave it down.
Have you ever mowed anything before?

Gordo
 
If you know how to do it, it can be done just fine with out a hyd cylinder. I did it for years with my NH460 till I picked up a cylinder for it and it is nice to have that option but can be done with out if you know what your doing
 
Old tells you it can be done but wants to keep it a secret as to how to do it . I know a guy that did it for a couple yrs. with a 9 ft. NH haybine and a 2000 Ford . He had a 50 acre flat field and would go around and around the field till the corners got to sharp then he would bale that then the rest he would lay off in lands pulling out in the earlyer baled area to turn around . When he got down to the point rows he had to bale the hay out of the way and end up with alot of one way mowing .
 
I can't imagine it being worth the hassle for any of my hay. I have some fields where the haybine will plug in some short, thick sections every 25-50' and I need to lift it to clear. On every corner, over rocks, etc, etc I lift the mower. I guess it could be done, but it seems very inconvenient, at least in the fields I mow.
 
The guy I m talking about had the money for a new tractor just did nt want to spend it . When he did get a new tractor he wandered why he waited so long . Most times he would plug he could backup alittle and clear it but sometimes he would have to stop and raise it some . I baled his hay till he got a baler so I did see this operation .
 
I guess the reality is that you don't even need a haybine if you have a good sharp scythe, and a baler only makes it more convenient to load into the barn, where a pitchfork will work just fine. Personally, I like diesel power, live hydraulics and indepentend PTO. Just my $0.02.
 
You didn't have one cylinder on any one piece of equipment on the entire acreage you could have "borrowed"?

Gordo
 
At that time no I did not but that was also about 10 years ago before I got into the tractor stuff like I have now. Today I can go out and pretty much just look in a pill and pick one up
 
I knew a fellow once who plowed driveways to make extra money in the winter. he had about a six foot plow on his IH scout, complete with hydraulic lift. The lift was powered by a lever action hyd. pump he had mounted between the seats. That might beat a sicle bar mower.
 
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