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- Cheltenham
No issue with whatever suits you. I was just passing on a comment from a Farner with way more knowledge than me about hay making (he has grass as a cash crop for racing stables etc) and he told me that a first pass after the mower is taken at max 4/5km/h. I watched him and thought it painfully slow, but after a quarter of a century plus, he found this the best practice to get the drying process accelerated, hence his move to the widest trailed tedders he could find. When I heard this it reminded me “you learn something every day”The opposite of what?
I'm not advocating going like stink, merely going as fast as you can do a good job, moving all the grass, with the ground conditions prevailing.
I suppose that usually equates to 10/12k max, with engine revs giving 400-450 PTO speed on decent flat going.
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