I would have to agree, that big bundle that falls off over those steel strips would not feed into the narrow feeder headers on combines of that vintage. I can understand not wanting to pull a hay rake thru ripe oats or wheat that had been mowed with a sickle mower, would knock off what little grain heads still attached to the straw. The typical "grass board" was to give a small swath right next to the uncut crop so the cut crop didn't plug the sickle. Our old Oliver sickle mower was an EXTREMELY frustating machine to try to mow hay with. ANY small handful of hay missed from the last cutting plugged the sickle. Disk mowers were still decades away from production, this was in 1965,'66. Neighbor and Us used our Brillion 6 ft rotary mowers to cut hay, They were a foot narrower, and I had to run a gear slower, 5 mph instead of 6-1/2 mph, but I NEVER had to stop from a plugged sickle bar, so got done in the same time or sooner. Dad actually priced a 9 ft trailing IH balanced head sickle mower to replace the Oliver mower, REALLY hard to justify that cost of that new mower to mow 20 acres of hay three times a year. The right side panel on the Brillion was removable, Dad cut the right rear diagonal panel on the Brillion off, the rear center panel was kept in place, they actually formed a little windrow and didn't chop up the hay. I'd rake 2-3 swaths into one windrow to bale, worked really good.
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