We always swath ours, or else it's just too green to combine. Had a custom guy try it standing for us 1 year (he insisted he could do it) and he broke a belt that cost more than it cost us to have him run the field. Plus he rutted it up a bit.
We swath our oats, ussually, 1 day ahead of the combine. It's just enough to let the weeds and other greens wilt and dry down so they don't cause an issue.
We use our Hesston 1014+2 hydroswing haybine to swath. It works ok even though it has an auger instead of drapers, but when it's that or borrow from the nearest neighbor who still has a draper head I'd rather just drop the crimper every year. I'm actually planning to drop the crimper this weekend from our hydra-swing to swath the oats, probably cut them next week.
Donovan from Wisconsin
This post was edited by Don-Wi at 15:23:35 07/14/10.
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