I guess I should say, here in my back yard, we deal with mud all spring and fall long, with about 4 days of dry weather in a typical summer - or so it seems. So here we need the floatation to carry us over the mud, and a single tire front end is just a very, very rare thing. We cut hay an hour after a rain, so we can get the 4 dry days to let it dry before the next rain. Everything we do is based on working in wet clay soft mud..... If you work hay with a single tire, you will basically be ruining the field 'here' by rutting the field and pressing the hay into the wet ground. You need floatation and you need to straddle windrows, and you want front and rear tires to run in the same path to run over as little of the hay (both cut and living shoots) so as to wreck as little as possible.
We don't like front tires on a roll a bar rake here either, as those extra tires just make more wet hay as it pushes cut grass down into the moist dirt.....
In other regions, I see a single tire works better for those conditions sometimes?
I forget sometimes, here and there things can be so different.
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