Question #1: Are the rubber rolls in decent condition?
Question #2: Does the wobble box work like it should?
If the answers are yes and yes then it would be foolish to scrap it. You could put a salvage tongue in it from a salvage yard. Or do some creative welding to repair the existing damaged portion. That's why scrap iron piles exist on old farmsteads. You can often find enough in an iron pile for free to repair something with a buzzbox stick welder.
Yes lots of bigger farmers have switched to disc mowers and discbines so haybines have dropped some in value, plus many of the earliest haybines are 40 to 50 years old so that alone is going to drop the value. Regardless, they are still not valueless. Lots of small to midsize operations actually prefer the sickle machines as you get cutting and crimping in a single operation. With the sickle based cutter and crimper you can easily perform both functions simultaneously with a 30 to 40 hp tractor. With a disc base cutter and crimper then you need much bigger tractor horsepower as well as a cab in the ideal world to protect the operator safely from flying debris.
Many of the pickiest horse hay customers actually prefer hay cut with a sickle based crimper. These picky customers claim a disc cutter deposits more field dirt on the hay in dry conditions from the fan effect of the high speed twirling discs. (Not saying I agree with this, but if any of you have delt with the picky folks then you know what I mean).
Regrowth studies typically lean towards sickle machines providing slightly faster field regrowth compared to disc mowers in most of the studies I have read.
If your brother wants to use that ole WD in his haying operation then he should perform an economical fix on the ole haybine instead of scrapping it. If he has zero plans to use it, then it would still likely bring slightly more as a parts machine or fixer upper compared to scrap. As scrap you looking at $300 to $325 total or so and he has to haul it. Even if he sells for scrap amount then still better than scrapping it as it will go to a user plus he does not have to haul it in.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 11:21:25 10/04/14 6 times.
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