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Cutting Hay Farmall 350 and Hesston 1110

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Bill VA

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Finally getting around to uploading a video of our 1958 Farmall 350 gasser cutting hay with our 7ft Hesston 1110 mower conditioner. First time out with the Farmall pulling the Hesston, was not sure what to expect.

Enjoy!
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Farmall Hesston Hay
 
Beautiful picture Bill. We have a Farmall 300 gas that I have used on a PT-10 and a 1091 haybine on some of our flatter fields in the past. It worked it a bit but did fine. I wouldn't use it on the steeper fields - those farmall brakes were never the best in my opinion! Have an 1120 haybine in use now.
 
Thanks!

No hills for this tractor with a heavy load behind - LOL! Your 1120 Hesston ought to be a great machine!
 
First year I thought I had went to heaven with the 1120, it ran so much smoother than the tired 1091. Still have the 1091 for backup and will be using it shortly to clean up some rough areas before winter. Don't want to run something through the 1120 and damage it. Sucked a downed tree top into the 1091 last year that took a while to get unplugged! It was buried in the thick grass/weeds couldn't see it. Paul
 
(quoted from post at 04:55:34 09/26/22) What does that mean?
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Splitting the field into smaller sections to limit running empty across headlands.

I was taught to lift the mower at the corner after 6-8 times around the outside, drive empty to where I want to split the field, square up to my chosen line, pull into the hay, lower the mower, and head across. At the other end, lift the head, spin around and mow right back down where the tractor just ran. Continue in a left-turn pattern for however many back-and-forths (anywhere from 2-8) to split the field into three equal sections. Mow the remaining two sections in a right-turn pattern. Larger fields may need to be split twice.

Modern hydra-swing and self-propelled mowers have made this obsolete. You just start at one side and work your way across.

Another school of thought is to just keep going round-and-round until you get to the middle. Corners get pretty tight after a while, though I never understood why.
 
(quoted from post at 05:14:26 09/26/22)
(quoted from post at 04:55:34 09/26/22) What does that mean?
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Splitting the field into smaller sections to limit running empty across headlands.

I was taught to lift the mower at the corner after 6-8 times around the outside, drive empty to where I want to split the field, square up to my chosen line, pull into the hay, lower the mower, and head across. At the other end, lift the head, spin around and mow right back down where the tractor just ran. Continue in a left-turn pattern for however many back-and-forths (anywhere from 2-8) to split the field into three equal sections. Mow the remaining two sections in a right-turn pattern. Larger fields may need to be split twice.

Modern hydra-swing and self-propelled mowers have made this obsolete. You just start at one side and work your way across.

Another school of thought is to just keep going round-and-round until you get to the middle. Corners get pretty tight after a while, though I never understood why.
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I do the same only different. When I get to the far end I pick up and come around to the right. When my right turn starts to get tight I turn left. It doesn't make so much difference with a disc mower but sickle mowers always cut better and cleaner going straight ahead.
 
(quoted from post at 05:45:15 09/26/22)
I do the same only different. When I get to the far end I pick up and come around to the right. When my right turn starts to get tight I turn left. It doesn't make so much difference with a disc mower but sickle mowers always cut better and cleaner going straight ahead.
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You mean, instead of a 90 degree right you make a 270 degree left on the corners, correct? I've seen that. Takes longer than just splitting the field and going back-and-forth, but it's not a race.

Plenty of ways to skin that cat.
 
(quoted from post at 05:56:09 09/26/22)
(quoted from post at 05:45:15 09/26/22)
I do the same only different. When I get to the far end I pick up and come around to the right. When my right turn starts to get tight I turn left. It doesn't make so much difference with a disc mower but sickle mowers always cut better and cleaner going straight ahead.
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You mean, instead of a 90 degree right you make a 270 degree left on the corners, correct? I've seen that. Takes longer than just splitting the field and going back-and-forth, but it's not a race.

Plenty of ways to skin that cat.
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No instead of 180 right it is 180 left. I never make 90 degree turns, and so that I am not traveling headlands I strike off lands. It is the same as combing crops or chopping corn. You don't make tight turns and you don't travel headlands. Just turn a comfortable wide turn and go back in.
 
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