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DeeGee · Jul 10, 2016

Haybob if set right is a really good machine for those who cannot justify specialist tedders and rakes. Maybe not perfect at both jobs but it will still do them reasonably well for a fraction of the cost of two machines. You can actually make brilliant wide and flat topped rows for big baling if you know how to set the machine and tractor revs correctly.
Maybe not perfect but still one Hell of a good machine; too many who slag it off just don't know how to set it up and operate it properly.

holwellcourtfarm · Jul 10, 2016

glasshouse said:
haybobs were a revelation at the time, just because they are superseded now doesnt make them crap.
haybob cost £1000, moden tedder and rake cost 15,000

I bet a new haybob would be a fair bit over £1000!

Bury the Trash · Jul 10, 2016

DeeGee said:
Haybob if set right is a really good machine for those who cannot justify specialist tedders and rakes. Maybe not perfect at both jobs but it will still do them reasonably well for a fraction of the cost of two machines. You can actually make brilliant wide and flat topped rows for big baling if you know how to set the machine and tractor revs correctly.
Maybe not perfect but still one Hell of a good machine; too many who slag it off just don't know how to set it up and operate it properly.

When machinery goes out of fashion - then is the time to buy..................
400 hundred quid or so will get a useable sh hand haybob if yr keep yr eye on the lookout.
having a spare one or 2 helps when breakdown or for spares.
Keeping machinery costs down is a top priority for me.

Red Fred · Jul 10, 2016

smcapstick said:
Not when it came to rowing up.

Small baling behind a trailed centipede/kuhn tedder- now that was a tedious job! Mum used to devise all sorts of ingenious patterns to make it easier to follow round the headlands, but she usually made it more confusing than ever although we never had the heart to tell her

fingermouse · Jul 10, 2016

our cock pheasant was a great machine

It was even better when Grandad decided to ram it between 2 tree gate posts without putting it into transport and ripped the drawbar off for the next 20yrs it did a cracking job as a fence
I remember Dad dragged one of these out the nettles

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The noise of slipping belts and ungreased bearings and the smell of Stockholm tar He lathered on the belts in the hope that the stickiness would make em grip abit better is something you never forget
Just sneaking into shot is an acrobat the most evil thing ever in the wrong hands to try and bale behind
A haybob was a revelation after these machines

Bury the Trash · Jul 10, 2016

the only thing a Bamford wuffler was remotly useful for was airing up straw after rain and then only after a 8.6 combine with a non record breaking crop.......

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still have in the nettles if anyone wants it might need renovating tho....

onthehoof · Jul 10, 2016

Forage Trader said:
They were good at rowing up but the miget rows did not quite do it for me

Yep me too, didn't leave enough room between rows so you had to go round the outside twice to be able to get round with baler and you would have to go round and round the field because if you tried to go up and down flat 8s would be in the way when you came back down and you were forever getting off to move them.
Seem to remember they did a double hay Bob that could put two rows into one, old chap was desperate to buy one but luckily I bought a rake first and haven't looked back since.

glasshouse · Jul 10, 2016

When making hay in distant , often small fields, the haybob saved a trip home for the rowing up machine when the hay was fit, and was robust enough to survive the "thought i rolled it " brigade.

onthehoof · Jul 10, 2016

Plus having to keep changing them damn springs

smcapstick · Jul 10, 2016

holwellcourtfarm said:
I bet a new haybob would be a fair bit over £1000!

£1,650 + VAT

glasshouse · Jul 10, 2016

And the small windrow will still allow the hay to make, allowing an earlier start to rowing up, unlike when you rake with a massive wide one.

holwellcourtfarm · Jul 10, 2016

smcapstick said:
£1,650 + VAT

Now that's a proper salesman, a quick quote on a Sunday morning

onthehoof · Jul 10, 2016

glasshouse said:
And the small windrow will still allow the hay to make, allowing an earlier start to rowing up, unlike when you rake with a massive wide one.

And take twice as long to bale. Don't row it up if it isn't fit

Derrick Hughes · Jul 10, 2016

and you dont need to make an early start when the dew is on if you have a big one

Acornworm · Jul 10, 2016

fingermouse said:
Just sneaking into shot is an acrobat the most evil thing ever in the wrong hands to try and bale behind

Yup,I can still see swaths rolled up like a rope,baler pulling them in,no control over it what so ever,makes me shudder even now.

holwellcourtfarm · Jul 10, 2016

Acornworm said:
Yup,I can still see swaths rolled up like a rope,baler pulling them in,no control over it what so ever,makes me shudder even now.

Always checked the shear bolt supply before balling behind an Acrobat!

fingermouse · Jul 10, 2016

Acornworm said:
Yup,I can still see swaths rolled up like a rope,baler pulling them in,no control over it what so ever,makes me shudder even now.

They sure gave your left leg some exercise dropping the clutch all the time
Even worse with a round baler simply impossible to make anything round at all

glasshouse · Jul 10, 2016

onthehoof said:
And take twice as long to bale. Don't row it up if it isn't fit

baling is very quick anyway, and is not the bottleneck.
the haybob saves a pass over the field, as rowing it up is as good as a turn, sometimes that is the difference between hay and broken up crap.
otherwise you have to ted it , then wait and rake it, then bale it which is fine if you have 3 tractors and the field is close.

FonterraFarmer · Jul 10, 2016

KMA said:
Our current one is made by fransgard and is a hell of a lot better than the volac one it replaced. Beautiful, even, well aired rows and doesn't make ropes like haybobs and acrobats. They do a good job however big the crop as long as you don't have billy whizz on the thing, good round bales start with the swath.

Holy feck ,what technique do you use to make a Haybob make rope like an Acrobat???

FonterraFarmer · Jul 10, 2016

Forage Trader said:
Good machine and in a different class to a Hayblob . A vile machine that was. A jack on no trades

Forage Trader said:
You been drinking again

With quotes like that, one would ask "What have you been smoking?"

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