Cutting hay in a hurry!!!

JD Seller · Jul 1, 2017

Here is a video of a Krone Big M 500 mower. You can really cut some hay with machines like this one. What caught my eye was the machines ability to merge the windrows into a single windrow. That is a nice feature for chopping hayledge. It cuts 13.2 meters or over 43 feet in a single pass.
Krones Big M 500

d9gdon · Jul 1, 2017

That'd keep a baler busy.

Keith Molden · Jul 2, 2017

We couldn't open that thing up in any of our fields LOL

showcrop · Jul 2, 2017

One of the farms where I hung out as a kid in Lancaster NH has been running one or more of those for over ten years. They set it to merge all three swaths into one, then after 3-4 hours a BIG tractor comes pulling a Vee wheel rake, and merges two-three of those huge swaths into one mega swath. That swath makes their 800HP forage choppers grunt. They blow direct into ten wheeler trucks with long bodies, since high dumps would fill in under a minute. They run fifteen of the forage trucks, which they lengthen in their own shop. They also run around eight manure trucks some tankers some are dumps. Back in the sixties, they milked around 100, now they are over 1100.

steve terplak · Jul 2, 2017

Dairy near us uses a similar setup except they use
a merger instead of the rake.
Unbelievable to watch in action.
They run 4 or 5 of the 10 wheelers full time trying to
keep up when they are chopping.
I caught one going down the field opened up- car
had a digital speedo - said we were at 11 mph,
chopping 80' wide swath of haylege. Unreal. My
dad always marvels at this since he remembers
chopping corn with a 1 row chopper behind his ub
diesel into a wagon...whole day would be spent
Doing what they do in minutes

AlinArk · Jul 2, 2017

the first break down would entail several days repairing it, all those fancy smanchy gee-gaws and fole de rols will eventually break !!!!

IA Roy · Jul 2, 2017

Last month in my travels, I saw a tractor pushing one mower and pulling two. I am guessing about the same cutting width. I don't think they were putting into windrows.
I think the same week, I saw a team of horses pulling a new Holland small square baler and rack. I think the baler had a Honda engine mounted on it. Not sure it was original equipment or Amish modified.

showcrop · Jul 2, 2017

(quoted from post at 10:08:24 07/02/17) the first break down would entail several days repairing it, all those fancy smanchy gee-gaws and fole de rols will eventually break !!!!

None of this: "all those fancy smanchy gee-gaws and fole de rols will eventually break !!!!" Just brute strength gears, pistons blades hydraulic pistons!!!!!!

Bruce from Can. · Jul 2, 2017

Buddy of mine has one, thinks it's great. Bought it as a used repo. Sure can lay down a lot of hay in a hurry.

jddrawbar · Jul 2, 2017

How would you like to have one of those used, after 10 yrs. in the field. I bet it would take 4 full time mechanics to keep it going.

Cutting hay in a hurry!!!

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