Don't rake and text.

RayP(MI) · Feb 16, 2016

Think we can identify with this.

rabbit · Feb 16, 2016

Reminds me of the time I was short of help and contracted with a rattle snake to do my raking!

db4600 · Feb 16, 2016

More surface area will dry faster

fixerupper · Feb 16, 2016

Looks like my rows last spring when i was trying to set the auto steer.

TimV · Feb 16, 2016

Ha! Farmer neighbor was short of help one day 20 years ago. Needed someone to rake hay. Neighbor of his was a great guy, but always short of cash, mainly because any spare cash laying around got turned into 12-oz bottles as quickly as he could get to the local convenience store. Still, any port in a storm and with rain on the way, when he volunteered to help rake in return for enough liquid refreshment to stave off dehydration while he was doing it, he handed him a 12-pack and turned him loose. Farmer said later that the first windrows weren't TOO bad, but by the time he got to the middle of the field it would have broke a snake's back to follow them, and they ended up just driving the baler and wagon straight down the field, turning around, and going straight back, picking up whatever they could on each pass!

matthies · Feb 16, 2016

Don't have to weave with the round baler now to evenly feed it.

ss55 · Feb 16, 2016

I wonder how many states and counties use GPS signals when they paint the lines on roads?

Tech 7 · Feb 16, 2016

Reminds me of the straw windrows I would leave behind the combine......we swathed all of our spring grain in those days and when it came to combining it I would sometimes work a nap into my afternoon. When the field was finished you could see where I had drifted off (in more ways than one), then an abrupt "correction" when the nap was over.
When we moved from a 6 ft pickup to a 10 ft I had more leeway and a slightly longer nap.

rrlund · Feb 16, 2016

I remember the old folks telling about a guy out east of town who drove through a fence one time because he was reading a book while he was plowing.

Tim in New York · Feb 16, 2016

Dad frequently mentioned when he was young and carousing, and had to drag first thing one morning. He drifted off and put the tractor and drags into the creek. He was able to retract the teeth and pull back out, but not before Grandpa caught him. This would have been 1950 or so, Case SO.

Tim

jacksun65 · Feb 16, 2016

Looks like when I was 14 raking field for neighbor with a 9n had a big chaw of Redman hit a gopher hole and swollowed the whole wad. LOL was I green

jon f mn · Feb 16, 2016

Dad always said "you get more corn in a crooked row".

01gentdc · Feb 16, 2016

loox like someone has a 3 pt hitch 5 wheel rake ,..and they are used to raking with a side delivery and they were following contour of last pass...when i wheel rake i usually start middle of field and work out ,, makes a lot less driving.

RalphWD45 · Feb 16, 2016

Good one! rabbit!

K Effective · Feb 16, 2016

Friend of mine farmed with his Dad and Uncle, and they often used an even older Uncle, professional schoolteacher, during the summer haying efforts. Uncle Art either dozed off or was quite distracted while raking, dropped the pin and released the rake, and recognized it immediately [u:d30ac91187]after[/u:d30ac91187] he ran into the back of the rake on the next round...

billfromwisconsin · Feb 16, 2016

this might work out good for older round balers to get an even bale

Don Hopf · Feb 16, 2016

Instead of swerving back and forth with the tractor and round baler, you can drive straight and make the best round bales.

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