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flying belgian

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When you want to roll over the rained on windrow of alfalfa, it is impossible to get it to land bottom side up. You can drive fast, drive slow, crowd this side, crowd that side, It is like a cat.
Always lands on its feet. You can try and turn it a half turn or one and a half turns and if you do happen to find that sweet spot where it lands bottom side up, that only lasts for about 10 feet then
it reverts back to its old ways. If you don't have this happen to you then you are either a lyre or you don't have alfalfa.
 
That's where a rotary rake works great. They don't really turn the windrow,they tear it apart and put it back together. If you really want to see something fluff it up and tear it apart,run over it with a CutDitioner or Rotary Scythe.
 
It has been many many years since I have faced that challenge. Maybe the windrow flattens, and weight shifts to the bottom, which it then tries to go back to? We didn't have a tedder until late in our hay making. Sometimes picking and fluffing windrows with that was more straight forward.
 
Didn't them Allis Chalmers side delivery rakes that run off the PTO have a reverse in them so you could spread a windrow back out?
 
I have a Ford rake and I run to the right of the windrow in the opposite direction. The tail of the rake just rolls it over and undoes most of the roping. Otherwise, I hate that rake.
 
I agree with rrlund. I use a three wheel rotary rake and ,although exasperating at times, once set it does a fairly good job with the half flip, grass hay, alfalfa, even swathed grains.

Ben
 

Yup, look like a big row of Twizzler sticks!


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I just had to do this. I hate it. I have a 10 wheel Hesston rake (or maybe it's 12, I can't picture it in my mind now). If I open it just wide enough so the thing will fit between the rows and then drive so the windrow is offset under the tractor and I am just running over the edge it will flip it a half turn. If it is too windy it doesn't work.

If I am round baling I roll two windrows together and I don't worry about it. It's when I square bale that I sometimes get that fun task. It wouldn't work with a narrow front tractor.
 
I don't mean a wheel rake,I mean one of those gyro outfits. I've got a Kuhn GT300. Every time one of those arm comes around,the tines tear off a little piece of the windrow.
 
Last year we picked up an older New Idea rake and that actually works pretty well for just flipping it, but you gotta be in the right spot. Sometimes it helps to offset the drawbar on the tractor too.

Right now we're baling hay and the conditions are right that we don't even have to rake it,a much different story from 2-3 weeks ago.

Yesterday we put around 1050 bales in the barn from 7 wagons. Hoping today we can atleast do another 5 or 6 loads and mow it again.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
(quoted from post at 17:07:03 07/02/15) When you want to roll over the rained on windrow of alfalfa, it is impossible to get it to land bottom side up. You can drive fast, drive slow, crowd this side, crowd that side, It is like a cat.
Always lands on its feet. You can try and turn it a half turn or one and a half turns and if you do happen to find that sweet spot where it lands bottom side up, that only lasts for about 10 feet then
it reverts back to its old ways. If you don't have this happen to you then you are either a lyre or you don't have alfalfa.
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or all the reasons you mention I've learned to leave a swath well enough alone.
All i do when the hay is rained on and wont dry is fluff it up with a combine pick up on wheels and hope for some wind.
 
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