best machine for wet straw in swath !!

[michael N123]

A single rotor rake is what you need. I may have one for sale if your interested

I still have nightmares about rowing up fields of grass with the old single rotor before we upgraded

there perfect for moving straw tho

 

[Chae1]

I still have nightmares about rowing up fields of grass with the old single rotor before we upgraded

there perfect for moving straw tho

I've still nightmares about baling silage behind single rotor rake.

 

[michael N123]

I've still nightmares about baling silage behind single rotor rake.

We tried to use a claas 75 behind ours

 

[Grass And Grain]

Slightly damp, wuffle it.

Bit wetter, single rotor rake.

Big swath, totally wet through, only 2 days until next big rain event, ted it out (maybe twice, to get it spread thinly across whole field surface), it will dry MUCH quicker tedded out. Rake then bale. No stones here though.

 

[benny6910]

I still have nightmares about rowing up fields of grass with the old single rotor before we upgraded

there perfect for moving straw tho

Yes my 7 acres is about enough with it. I did do 28 acres for somebody but don’t think I’ll rush back to do it again.

 

[Will 1594]

Yes my 7 acres is about enough with it. I did do 28 acres for somebody but don’t think I’ll rush back to do it again.

Wrong answer If your selling
It’s the best thing on earth works perfect ‘ makes a superb job .

 

[Mark C]

If you have a really big swath, you can run a tedder through it slow enough to split it in half onto dry ground rather than spread it out and smash it to bits, dries a lot quicker with less losses.

 

[yellowbelly]

The problem with wet straw starts when it's dry.
Having contract baled 'an acre or two', there are a few things that spring to mind.

1. Idiot cart drivers who insist on following 20 yards behind a combine, while waiting for it to be ready to tip, running one wheel up the middle of the trail FFS, I know some combine designers use a slide rule to calculate the length of the spout, so that you have to run a wheel up the middle of the trail to unload, but please only run on it when you really have to ...

2..... and don't swing round in the middle of the field and run on 2 or 3 more swaths ....

3.....and don't drive diagonally across the whole cut field to get to the feckin gate

4....and don't try and striddle a swath until your cart has shoved a pile up under it as big as a mini heston

Some combine drivers don't help much either One of our baler drivers used to reckon that, to qualify to be a combine driver, you should have to have 2 seasons 'compulsory baler driving' - that way they'd realise that they could be part of the problem too.
See 3. above....

...and when you stick the table in the ground, just try an back up for a few yards (preferably in a straight line) before you stop rather than letting a mountain of straw, six foot high, pile up at the back

Rant over.

Having said all that, there are some good combine drivers. We baled a lot of years for Chappell Farms at Hibaldstow and I'd like to nominate them as the best place we ever went to

 

[Fraserb]

Anyone run a wuffler with a mower grouper on back?

Looks a good idea.

Neighbour has a fransgard machine like that, we've used it a few times. Its fairly steady going and leaves a slightly one sided swath but it certainly gets it moved onto fresh ground.

 

[james ds]

This is the machine for the job.

 

[Fraserb]

This is the machine for the job.

A few similar to that appeared round here a few years ago, all gone now I think.

 

[Dave W]

This is the machine for the job.

Mine does that at a fraction of the cost

 

[Martin Holden]

A few similar to that appeared round here a few years ago, all gone now I think.

Do you know what they disappeared?

 

[redsloe]

A single rotor rake is what you need. I may have one for sale if your interested

This is spring barley straw, combined 3 weeks ago for crimp with a rotary combine, and just left in the row until today. Finally stopped raining sunday.
Would have probably baled today too if rain was forcast.

 

[CPF]

For big combines ; little rows of straw this would keep, you straw boys /girls happy?

 

[Jsmith2211]

It depends how carefully you set the rake and what speed!
I have bought straw where they have had the baler pick up set so low it filled the bales with stones.
All machines need setting carefully and driving with consideration!

Unless you have a baler where you can't adjust the pickup... On ours it is either up or down. Some you can adjust the wheels on but I think that mechanism is either broken or non existant on ours.

The wet oat straw we've had this year has been moved once with the rake and will be baled when it's dry

 

[e3120]

For big combines ; little rows of straw this would keep, you straw boys /girls happy?

I know some trailer drivers who would see it as a challenge to drive on both of them.