Depends a lot on your location and largely on what your cutting. Grass doesn't much care what you do to it so I'll presume your talking about alfalfa. In our area, you don't want to run over both sides of your swath with the tractor tires. Once you push both sides of your swath down into the stubble, you no longer get any air circulation under the swath and will stay wet underneath a long time. We always drop the outside duals during haying season and spread the inside tires out to the far ends of the axle so we're not running over any of the swath. The front tires stay spread all year round. If the top half dries and the weather holds, we'll go ahead and rake it into a windrow to dry the bottom half and its ready to bale. We swath the 1st cutting but only take 2/3 of a cut (10-12ft vs 16) because its so thick or the swath never dries out before the next rain. Raking optional just to turn it over if it doesn't fully dry. Full cut on 2nd cutting and depending on the year, we will swath and rake if its a wet summer, but its normally dry and we can usually windrow it with the haybine and bale it without raking. 3rd cutting and well into the dry season, we have to rake three windrows together to make a windrow big enough to chase with a baler.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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