Best machine for rowing up silage

[M-J-G]

It's quite a thing when it's in it's transport position. It wouldn't be the first one to break a headstock.

 

[rjtfarming]

A Krone single rotor rake. Fold up arms, which swung it for me as dad can use it. I can make a tidy row, you can drive as wide or narrow as you like. A smaller row for a little baler or a wide as possible for a round one. Well built machines. 0% finance if you need it.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

A rotunde will do the job but it's a machine that requires patience and a certain amount of skill. There's no set forward or pto speeds, you have to vary them to suit the crop.
A twin rotor rake would be better and would put 3 into 1 which always leaves a nicer tow than 2 into 1, but the cost could be difficult to justify. A single rotor rake might not work that well putting 8fts together if it's for a round baler because you really need to be setting 2 narrow rows side by side rather one, potentially uneven row.

Not to much of an issue for the right man on the baler, give me a wider row that's a tad uneven than follow a haybob any day of the week. Spent years running after one and it drove me nuts.

 

[Boohoo]

Not to much of an issue for the right man on the baler, give me a wider row that's a tad uneven than follow a haybob any day of the week. Spent years running after one and it drove me nuts.

There's only so much you can do with an uneven row if it's the width of the pick up. 2 narrow rows set side by side out of a single rotor rake makes a better bale than 1 wide row.

 

[JMTHORNLEY]

Would you not just push the side feeders to the limit where you can @Boohoo to try and fill out the ends? I do agree though, we pull three 10fts into one in front out our with the single as it's 4.1M rake and that works very well with our baler. Just means I have to mow as good a line as possible to make raking that bit easier

 

[michael N123]

We got a old class liner 680 last year would never ever go back to a single rotor and it was cheap

 

[Nithsdale]

We got a old class liner 680 last year would never ever go back to a single rotor and it was cheap

We had one for a couple years. Great machine but far too big in our heavy crops. Baler didn't like it and going down the gears meant to took longer to get over the field... and it still choked

Traded in for a Claas 450 single rotor. It is a pain having to remove the arms to transport (but it does go through 12' gates if you just put the swath board up ), it's a very good machine

 

[michael N123]

We had one for a couple years. Great machine but far too big in our heavy crops. Baler didn't like it and going down the gears meant to took longer to get over the field... and it still choked

Traded in for a Claas 450 single rotor. It is a pain having to remove the arms to transport (but it does go through 12' gates if you just put the swath board up ), it's a very good machine

Our round baler prefers the biger rows and the drag chopper runs a lot smoother compared to putting 2 single rotor rows together

 

[X344chap]

Haybob

Still using the Vicon RC300 Speeder. On skids which means no punctures.

 

[ollie989898]

Buy a twin rotor rake or borrow/steal a twin rotor rake.

 

[Nithsdale]

Our round baler prefers the biger rows and the drag chopper runs a lot smoother compared to putting 2 single rotor rows together

The old baler was on its last legs to be fair. For 3into1 you were more than just half the speed of 2into1 so it took longer to get over a field. And coming down (steep) hills it would choke all to easily. Claas Rotocut 255 I'm talking about, great baler in its prime but wasn't once it got to 10... McHale isn't doing half the work now, so will last longer (hopefully), as I don't go contracting with it.

 

[hally]

Yea

We got a old class liner 680 last year would never ever go back to a single rotor and it was cheap[/QUOTE
We’ve got the same, it replaced an old fransgard 5000 years ago, it does a great job. Twin rotor rake definitely the best but also the dearest