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Using a NH 488 without the rollers

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sam

11-15-2003 17:55:23




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I mow a lot of pasture with a sickle mower. Can one remove the rollers from a NH 488 and mow leaving the hay spread out where it soon mulches back into the earth? I need to speed up the time I spend mowing. Thanks.




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Hugh MacKay

11-16-2003 07:50:51




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 Re: Using a NH 488 without the rollers in reply to sam, 11-15-2003 17:55:23  
Sam: I think a haybine with rollers removed might not work much better than mower. I can see what you are driving at. That shorter pasture grass piles up on cutter of mower, and your thinking the reel will keep the material flowing better. Right or Wrong?

Like Sid said though, rollers and rear flaps can be set to do the same. Every NH 7 or 9 foot haybine can put material out broadcast as it came from the stem.

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Dale in IN

11-16-2003 07:42:26




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 Re: Using a NH 488 without the rollers in reply to sam, 11-15-2003 17:55:23  
Leave your rollers in and spread your swath out as wide as you can. I clip wheat stubble with a JD 1219 mower conditioner. Your rollers will break up your course stems and they will rot faster. Kind of and expensive machine for cliping,but it will give less trouble than a sickle mower.



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Sid

11-15-2003 20:10:56




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 Re: Using a NH 488 without the rollers in reply to sam, 11-15-2003 17:55:23  
Just my thinking but I have used a haybine to clip pastures I just relieved most of the tension on the rollers and opened up the curtians to leave a full width swath. It may be my imagination but it seems the cows ate and cleaned it up better. I plan on clipping more pasture with my old haybine and watch them a little closer and see if it isn't worth it. I wonder if the clippings would fall behind the cutter without the rollers to pull it on through. Removing them might cause problems but that is just my thinking I have not heard of anybody trying it.

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