Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
Only saw this machine the other night, and very impressed with it. Probably way beyond my budget unfortunately.
New 3 in One Rake
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Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
I am intrigued on the reason for such a machine. The "wilter" mode is something I really don't get. Why not just spread it out, then rake it? Does it have to do with the small weather windows you have?
Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
Spreading the grass out to dry is fine in good weather, but on a dull windy day it is sometimes better to keep it in a row , fluffed up to let the wind do the drying. This past year it was nearly impossible to make Hay or haylage with any type of machine, we got no long spells of good weather at all.
- Location
- East Sussex
How much I wonder?
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- Orkney Islands
Bugger we just have a 4 cyl tractor and one beacon so wont be fit to drive a unit like that.
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- South West
I see no reason at all for the tedder unit but the wuffler unit will give a lovely even balanced row for baling behind and all grass will be moved unlike a twin rotor rake lifting two rows of grass on top of a central row but to be honest the vast majority of grass these days tend to be tedded.
The tedding rotors didn't get much of a show on the video. They look a wonderful way to introduce lumps bigger than even a haybob could make.
The row it leaves looks huge unless you've a good crop press on the front of the baler tractor?
It'll row up faster than a twin rotor by the looks of it though.
The row it leaves looks huge unless you've a good crop press on the front of the baler tractor?
It'll row up faster than a twin rotor by the looks of it though.
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- South West
Not shown in wet and short grass tho?
michael N123
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they should remove the tedder things off the back they just look like a lump creation device the rest looks very good tho one pass and no need for a tedder for some dry silage and haylage
Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
It says somewhere that you can buy the wilter and the rest is modular, so the tedder can be forgotten about if you don't want it.
Gerbert
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- Dutch biblebelt
Alright. Does this have to do with the small scale of livestock and especially fattening units? That reasoning is because it takes alot of work to wilt taking one row at a time. For example there seem to be an really big number of haybobs in great britain while overhere that is really the domain of hobbyists and hay is mainly for horsey people.
No trying to put you or anyone down, just curious.
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
I'm a bit confused, what does it achieve that a haybob can't?
- Location
- East Sussex
Block a bigger hole in the hedge?
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- southern riverina Australia
If you want faster dry down why wouldn't you just get a recon 300 or the like. 100% squeeze roller conditioner . There would be no way in hell i would re condition any of my hay here with a flail machine. Obviously they don't make any clover hay in Ireland.
Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
Clover doesn't survive in a cutting sward for long. The boys who really push their production cut four times a year for silage. Hay swards tend to be perennial mixes. The weather would also be totally different here compared to yours, not much fear of drying out too much here.
miniconnect
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- Argyll
what does it do that a good mower conditioner and twin rotor rake doesnt do? surely you want it conditioned asap after mowing, like at the same time.
the only time this machine might help is the wuffler if a rowed up sward got rained on, but even then a big row like that is going to take a few passes and a lot of wind and sun to dry it.
the only time this machine might help is the wuffler if a rowed up sward got rained on, but even then a big row like that is going to take a few passes and a lot of wind and sun to dry it.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
It would be interesting to know how they came to their claims on cost savings, that looks quite an expensive machine and at 20 foot width won't be big enough for most contractors.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
When I was a lad everyone had a haybob, they were the only thing available back then, but nowadays big tedders and rakes are very common, I've had a 6 rotor Tedder for farm use for 20 years and most contractors around here have moved on from twin rotor rakes to four rotors to put more grass in front of the chopper, with an increasing number of farmers now having a twin rotor for use in front of balers.
Yes there are still plenty of hay bobs out there but in the main used a relatively small amount.
jpd
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- rep of irl
would it not be the bee knees for handling wet straw?