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Flipping windrows

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Location
Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Turning hay over with my $100.00 windrow turner. Speeds the drying quite a bit.
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A friend used to have one on the front of a Super C. When not using it, he just took the wheels off. Then if you got too close, you'd get all this black grease off the shafts sticking out.
 
James the hay is Red Clover, and really hard to ever get dry enough to make into dry hay bales here without it getting rained on. This hay had been cut for two days before I flipped it today, and we have had full sun and near 80 F temperature. I will try to rake it 3 into 1 tomorrow, and bale then wrap the bales to make haylage. Are milk cows just love this stuff.
 
If you would like I could get another picture tomorrow, but there really isn?t much more to see. The tines just hit the ground/stubble and that is what makes them turn, no pto power. Very simple windrow turner, and they are still sold brand new, two , three and four wheel, 3 point hitch. A two wheel like mine sells new for $900.00. They often show up on auction sales, and sometimes sell for scrap.
 
It’s a handy tool. I bought one thinking I would need it only once in awhile. Ended up using it for every cutting. It does a. Ugh better job than my ancient rope maker rake. Then I got out of hay and sold it to a neighbor. He used it awhile, then got a bigger rake and stored away the windrow turner. Now I’m back into the hay business with my whopping three acres and wish I had it again so I asked the neighbor if he still had it. He said yes, it’s in one of the buildings on the three farm building sites they have and he will keep an eye open for it. When he finds it he will let me know. I’m still waiting.
 
(quoted from post at 19:23:57 06/21/18) It’s a handy tool. I bought one thinking I would need it only once in awhile. Ended up using it for every cutting. It does a. Ugh better job than my ancient rope maker rake. Then I got out of hay and sold it to a neighbor. He used it awhile, then got a bigger rake and stored away the windrow turner. Now I’m back into the hay business with my whopping three acres and wish I had it again so I asked the neighbor if he still had it. He said yes, it’s in one of the buildings on the three farm building sites they have and he will keep an eye open for it. When he finds it he will let me know. I’m still waiting.
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That’s MUCH better job, not UGH better job. Wish I could edit.
 
Front mounted two and three wheel rakes where very popular when I was a kid. Farmers used to swath grain before herbicide was in wide use, and any green stuff in the grain field would dry , and go through the combine, and the scour clean took out the weed seeds. But if if rain while your grain swaths were drying down, it was hard to get the swath dry enough to combine. So fellas got these windrow turners.
I remember seeing them mounted on the front of old tractors like a 33 Massey Harris, or a IH W4 , some old tractor that didn?t have hydraulic. They had a couple different positions you could put it down manually when you got to the field, do your work, then get off and lock it up to drive home. I have been on the hunt for a front mounted wheel rake for a few years, with no luck yet. Think they all must have gone to the scrap yard.
 
DANG! At first glance I thought you'd lost it!

I read "flipping widows".

That would not be good, IMHO!
 
Some guys around here mount one on front end loader and one on the 3 pth makes the job to double raking faster. Need a light loader for a front mount.
Ben
 
Way back in the day, my dad would mix Red Clover seeds in with the maze that was fed to our cows.

He said they would distribute the seed and would have Red Clover to graze the next year.
 
I have a front mounted wheel rake but I?ve lost the mount for it we had the rake on the front of my 4020 when I took it to college to rebuild I took the mount off and I never got home with it I would like to build a new one
 
Red clover is very good dairy hay. Drawbac is only 2 cuttings per year and lasts only one year. Good fit in a hay crop as alfalfa would come off first followed up with the red clover that will make more tonnage per acre than alfalfa followed up by second cutting alfalfa then second cutting red and third cutting alfalfa. Red clover was usually planted with timothy and if you left the red clover for a second year on first cut you would get about a half crop of red clover with rest timothy
 
Hey Bill, you look the same. I've never seen that type equipment around here. Good to see you here.
Jim in Alabama
 

I have one of those that I bought ten years or so ago. I tip windrows fairly frequently, but I use my JD roll-bar- rake. I know that it isn't supposed to work, but it does. I got the flipper for windy days. I was going to fabricate a mount on the tractor that pulls the baler for straightening wind blown windrows. I never got to it so it is just sitting.
 

I have one of those that I bought ten years or so ago. I tip windrows fairly frequently, but I use my JD roll-a-bar rake. I know that it isn't supposed to work, but it does. I got the flipper for windy days. I was going to fabricate a mount on the tractor that pulls the baler for straightening wind blown windrows. I never got to it so it is just sitting. It is available if anyone would like it.
 
Bill,if you used something like that around here folks would run off in the ditch looking at it! Kevin in Central AL
 
At our local threshing show a fella uses a four wheel rake mounted on the front of a tractor to swath the straw pile from the separators, for baling. He drives around and along side the pile making windrows and a baler follows him up. At the end of every day there is no straw pile left to get rained on and ruined. It works real slick.
 
Dad built one like it when I was a kid. He used the front wheels off an old steel wheel rake and mounted baler pick up teeth to it and had it on a model C Allis Chalmers further back than yours, actually right in front of the rear wheel. Ran it in road gear, was one of my favorite jobs .
 
I use my new Holland 56 to turn Windrows you just have to
know where to drive so it doesn?t flip them clear over the same
way they were
 
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