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KMA

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Location
Dumfriesshire
Holy feck ,what technique do you use to make a Haybob make rope like an Acrobat???:eek::eek::eek:
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 :nailbiting: but then I've baled some pretty awful rows done with a modern rake:banghead: IMHO no-one should be set to row up before they've done some baling.

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.
 
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 :nailbiting: but then I've baled some pretty awful rows done with a modern rake:banghead: IMHO no-one should be set to row up before they've done some baling.

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.
So , I guess you never get it that you can only row up directly in front of the baler, because the grass is so dry that the wind will blow the entire row away, into the fence on the other side of the paddock?:banghead:
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
So , I guess you never get it that you can only row up directly in front of the baler, because the grass is so dry that the wind will blow the entire row away, into the fence on the other side of the paddock?:banghead:
Yes, the worst I ever remember was when my neighbour asked me to row up right in front of his baler as the wind was taking the rows away within seconds. He was right behind my Haybob with the baler pick up reel almost touching the gates of the Haybob. Pretty dodgy at times but he was a good driver and it really was the only way to get the rows baled that day.
 

KMA

Member
Location
Dumfriesshire
So , I guess you never get it that you can only row up directly in front of the baler, because the grass is so dry that the wind will blow the entire row away, into the fence on the other side of the paddock?:banghead:

Yeah, but very rarely. I have seen the hay lifted 100' into the air as a mini tornado took about 5 acres well into the next field which was way too steep to recover it from :wideyed::banghead:. Been a few years since we've had that kind of weather round here though, getting the stuff dry enough for haylage has been hard enough. If it's windy enough to lift the rows here it means it's either hissing down or about to. That's why I bought the small bale wrapper back in 2010 which has been one of my better buys.

Hoping it'll stay dry through Thursday so we can get the next lot of haylage done in good order (round bales thankfully), doesn't look like any sunshine but supposed to at least stay dry.
 

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Yes, the worst I ever remember was when my neighbour asked me to row up right in front of his baler as the wind was taking the rows away within seconds. He was right behind my Haybob with the baler pick up reel almost touching the gates of the Haybob. Pretty dodgy at times but he was a good driver and it really was the only way to get the rows baled that day.
How do you manage that? Put the baler infront of the tractor?
 

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
So , I guess you never get it that you can only row up directly in front of the baler, because the grass is so dry that the wind will blow the entire row away, into the fence on the other side of the paddock?:banghead:
We get that alot here.Theres nothing more frustrating especially if you are both rowing up and baling on your own.Just have to do a dozen rows at a time,jumping off one tractor onto the other.
 

jendan

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Small baler Claas Markant 65, baling tractor running virtually alongside the Haybob tractor just so the offset pick up could grab the windrow before it blew away. Maybe had to be seen to be believed.
Bit of a thickhead there.I obviously did not think of an offset little baler.
 

Selectamatic

Member
Location
North Wales
Small baler Claas Markant 65, baling tractor running virtually alongside the Haybob tractor just so the offset pick up could grab the windrow before it blew away. Maybe had to be seen to be believed.

Dad remembers many years of doing that, it took a lot of concentration and cooperation between the haybob and baler drivers.

I has the dubious pleasure of doing the same last year, when the wind was blowing barley straw away. Very tiring job.
 

Selectamatic

Member
Location
North Wales
Go on, it's a hateful job, thankfully our haybob is only used for rowing up infront of the small square baler so doesn't get a lot of use.

Um....

I replaced three a few weeks ago, on my new to me Haybob (In preparation for the forthcoming hay making heatwave... :rolleyes:)

I would not consider it a hateful job, it's only knocking a rollpin out and back in, surely...?

I'm worried now, have i done it wrong?!
 

hang-on

Member
Location
Co Armagh.
Um....

I replaced three a few weeks ago, on my new to me Haybob (In preparation for the forthcoming hay making heatwave... :rolleyes:)

I would not consider it a hateful job, it's only knocking a rollpin out and back in, surely...?

I'm worried now, have i done it wrong?!

I know it's just knocking the roll pin in and out but spend plenty of time with nipped fingers trying to get the spring tight enough lol
 

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