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Discbine size vs wheel rake size

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jacksonduper

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I'm looking for a discbine and I currently have a 8 wheel rake that is not high capacity. We cut with a New Holland 1465 haybine right now
and they are a good match. I have found a nice 12 foot discbine I'm correct in my thinking that this will be too wide for my 8 wheel rake?

Joe
 
I learned a long time ago that the bigger and fatter the WWs the nicer the bale.....as long as your equipment can get over the bale so that the baler fingers can get to it to pick up. Surely you already know the angle of attack determines area covered. If worried, I'd just increase the angle which will ground drive better anyway and work in heavier clippings by doing so. Shooting from the hip....I think you'll like it better than your 8'.

On the too high thing, if you are zig zagging as you wrap like I do with a 5' wide baler, you automatically mash down the top with the tires....I don't have conditioning wheels on my current baler so I have to do that anyway. If your baler to tractor connecting pin drags, fabricate a deflector out of sheet metal and attach to the draw bar.
 

A lot will depend on how wide you choose to lay the windrow out(3' or 9'). I rake three 9'3'' cuts laid flat from a Krone AM283S disk cutter which amounts to about 27' in width with my 14 wheel Hi-cap rake & have ability to move my rake wheels in for a better raking angle.
 
If you are leaving the hay in the tight wind row, one pass should be able to catch two into one, but you will need to pay attention. I used to cut with a 12 foot swather, leave the windows tight, and no problem catching the 24 foot of hay, but my rake was wider so I had to watch I didnt get into the next swath over sometimes. 24 foot of hay makes a really nice window for a round baler
 
V-rake or straight rake?

How many swaths are you pulling in now? If two then it will handle one from the 12ft machine.

We had an old Farmhand 5-wheel rake, and it was good for about 7ft. It would not quite roll up a flat swath from a 9' haybine.
 
It is a 8 wheel V rake foour on each side for a total of 8 wheels. I'm worried about not being able to catch two windrows
from a 12 foot machine.
 

Windrows are similar to people in that they can be different WIDTHs!!!! :lol:

I"ll ask you again HOW WIDE ARE YOU PLANNING TO MAKE YOUR WINDROWS? 3 ft or possibly 9 ft wide so hay can dry possibly faster??
 


It has always seemed to me that my narrow swath was RELIABLY under 1/3 of the mowed width. Sure a lot of the time it was a more like 1/4, but you have to ask yourself how much do you want to leave behind? I say that you need to be able to rake sixteen feet.
 

My 8 wheel v rake is set to make a 5 foot windrow and will pull in 18-19 feet
A 10 ft cutter making a 6 ft swath pulls in 2 ft on each side for a total width of two swaths being 16 ft so my rake has a little wiggle room
A 12 ft cutter making 7 ft swaths pulls in 2 1/2 fr on each side for a total width of two swaths being 19 ft, thats got my rake reaching for all it can get and probably leaving some
For a 12 ft cutter ld want a 10 wheel rake
 
I just bush the pin up some so the hay doesn't catch. I can rake 3 9 foot swaths laid out flat with my 12 wheel rake. I can also rake 2 separate windrows with my 10 wheel rake by turning them around so they both angle the same direction and moved the left side back a couple feet to clear the frame. Works great for single windrows in first cutting. Can rake pretty fast that way too.
 
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