- Location
- flintshire
what do people rate as best machine for wet straw, old haybob or a quick turn with a rake ?? Tried a swath wilter and did one field and cashed it straight away!!!
best machine for wet straw in swath !!
- Thread starter danpwll
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Sandy
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
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Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
Hydraulic drive. Kind on straw
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- Location
- flintshire
Have seen it on Facebook, who made it ?? Can't justify it for my bit of acreageHydraulic drive. Kind on straw
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Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
We think it used to be part of a forschritt self propelled thing and has been converted to 3pl. The pto turned the wrong way so was only rear mounted.
Made it hydraulic drive to be more universal. Could even go on telehandler.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Great idea but would it handle a thick heavy wet swath. Acrobats work good until your in clay then the tines get mud from the wet under the swath on them and tangle up.
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
The thicker the crop the better it seems to work.
We trialled a few different setups for the support arm and found it was best underneath contrary to what you'd think
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Dave w. Interesting Phiber made rower upper out here that was plastic finger on a conveyor belt the pick alfalfa up gently without leaf loss and merge the swaths. Very gentle and set right it would turn a swath upside down. New Holland and very similar to yours except the auger was replaces by a conveyor belt
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We find a wuffler works fine for most wet bouts of straw. If its really wet turn it over with a rake.
Clever dic used to have a self propelled one of those ,rape swather ,with that windrower on it
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
We had a new one of those the year I left school , it was my job to turn the outside of the fields in to make fire breaks ready for stubble burning .
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
- Location
- northampton
We used to use a old jd round baler with the back door removed did a brilliant job
- Location
- Down south
- Location
- Yorks
If really wet ted it out. Might need to go over it twice to get thin spread across field surface. Leave to dry, then rake.
Fastest job on a sopping wet big swath.
Fastest job on a sopping wet big swath.
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
Uncle had something like this for lifting ropie clover hay
Never done this task before so got the contractor to help. Used our single rotor rake driving just off the L of the swath. JD 6220p was in E3 gear running at tickover with 540e pto speed. Unbelievably fast found speed. This moved the swath over and we didn’t seem to lose much straw in the process.