Here's our dilemma in our small (~25 acre) farm in Northeast Pennsylvania: RAIN, RAIN and more RAIN.
Out of the 25 acres of usable hay fields, we were only able to process about 10 acres back in early July. Rain made it impossible to make hay ever since. Forget second cut....we couldn't even get a first cut of the other 15 acres.
Now, in early November, I am just waiting for it to get somewhat dry enough to get into those fields and mow the fields down.
We have available a 5ft rotary cutter (mulcher) towed behind a gas 656, or a 9ft sickle bar towed behind a diesel Kubota.
I'd much prefer to just use the sickle bar mower, as it would be a LOT faster and much cheaper, but I am now wondering if using it won't get us into trouble for next season. Would this even rot down sufficiently?
What are your recommendations?
Cheers from a soaking wet Pennsylvania...
Out of the 25 acres of usable hay fields, we were only able to process about 10 acres back in early July. Rain made it impossible to make hay ever since. Forget second cut....we couldn't even get a first cut of the other 15 acres.
Now, in early November, I am just waiting for it to get somewhat dry enough to get into those fields and mow the fields down.
We have available a 5ft rotary cutter (mulcher) towed behind a gas 656, or a 9ft sickle bar towed behind a diesel Kubota.
I'd much prefer to just use the sickle bar mower, as it would be a LOT faster and much cheaper, but I am now wondering if using it won't get us into trouble for next season. Would this even rot down sufficiently?
What are your recommendations?
Cheers from a soaking wet Pennsylvania...