The reasons younger guys like going back and forth are self propelled and hydro-swing hay and disc-bines, hard to go around corners with choppers, round balers, kicker balers, and newer hay rakes that do not handle corners very good without missing some hay. Old (50-70 or so years ago) steel wheel rakes did 90 degree plus corners very well making round and round mowing work. Growing up we mowed round and round with a JD no 5 mower on a 1935 JD B and later with a 1946 JD A. When I started chopping most of my hay I went back and forth in lands and later back and forth with a hydro-swing haybine. It makes it handier hauling in using this method. Also if the hay got too dry I wood just leave it and round bale it in the evening or the next day. This way is harder on the ends especially the area towards the exit for the field. One 40 acre field we would end up with a 16' chopper box full on one side near the road exit after 2 12' rounds. If the chopper guy filled the wagon before the end, he would pull out and bring the load to the end. I would park the empty wagon next to the full one so it was close and I would hook up the chopper when I hooked up the full wagon. Every so often the chopper would clean up the abandoned windrows left behind. This field was close to the buildings so I did not need help hauling in. We would start chopping 11:00 AM and usually finish by 5:00 PM so I could milk. 22 -24 loads and maybe 1-3 loads on wagons to unload after milking. I had my JD 4440 on the blower filling my 90' tall Harvestore.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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