KMA
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Have to admit I've never managed 'rope' with a haybob but if you're working working a very heavy, long (late single cut) crop you can end up with some very lumpy stuff no matter how much care you take. Can't remember ever using an acrobat but have baled behind them but then I've baled some pretty awful rows done with a modern rake IMHO no-one should be set to row up before they've done some baling.Holy feck ,what technique do you use to make a Haybob make rope like an Acrobat???
The haybob is a good dual purpose machine for doing smaller areas working in front of a small baler, but for getting the best crop of hay in the shortest time in the fewest round bales I'd ted with a swather first pass against the swath, second pass across the swaths, if you need to you can go over it again in any direction, row up with the rake then run up with the swather again with the doors set just wider than the pickup reel.
3 day hay is possible if you get a scorching few days in August/September when the crop is dead on its feet, I'd still let the big bales sit out for a bit though just put them in rows butted up against each other like a long sausage, that way you only get the outside ends of row exposed to any weathering.