Rowing up hay on a windy day

[spark plug]

Ok I think I know the answer to this but, is there anything you can do to stop your windrows blowing across the Feild on a windy day?

Having a bad time of the hay making this year and every time I think I’m getting somewhere another problem knocks me back. After a smashed knotter frame then some rain we get a brake in the weather and it’s too windy!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Whenever we’ve baled in windy conditions I’ve always followed dad closely with the baler as he rows it up....I know it’s a faff but needs must

 

[spark plug]

That would be a possibility, I was just hoping to get it turned tonight ready to bale tomorrow and got me thinking what can you do when it’s windy.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

That would be a possibility, I was just hoping to get it turned tonight ready to bale tomorrow and got me thinking what can you do when it’s windy.

You can’t do Fanny Adams...it’s Mother Nature

 

[bobk]

Bale it the day before .

 

[spark plug]

You can’t do Fanny Adams...it’s Mother Nature

That was what I expected but if I didn’t ask I’d never know.

 

[Boohoo]

A rake leaves a more windproof row than a haybob but in really windy conditions we keep the baler tight behind our single rotor rake and bale in one direction

 

[Kidds]

In this weather you can bale behind the mower!

 

[Northeastfarmer]

In this weather you can bale behind the mower!

Yes for silage

 

[DeeGee]

Worst I ever remember was rowing up for a neighbour about twenty years ago when my Haybob was literally throwing the hay into the pick up reel of his Claas baler with the Haybob gates always less than six feet from the baler intake.

It was a bit dodgy at times with both of us always ready with the brakes but it was honestly the only way of baling that afternoon, with rain forecast and the gale force wind taking away anything resembling a row within seconds. Good experience though!

 

[JD-Kid]

worked at one place years ago. that windy. while baleing. raking into the wind and. stoped each time baler stopped
think the. suitcase weights of the the baling. tractor were in the basket on the back of the. 5000 haybob. they had

 

[muleman]

At least the wind will get the hay dry....better than a dull soft day definitely.

 

[yellowbelly]

is there anything you can do to stop your windrows blowing across the Feild on a windy day?

..................well, if you've got a big pile of cash...............

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

How can that be road legal?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

this must stick out 25 plus foot in front of the driver,so he says he has cameras on the front, yet with no signal or picture on 1 camera he still pulls out onto a road, not only will it be illegal and braking the rules of the high way code, he posts it on youtube,

this is really a case of some really taking the pish,

 

[davieh3350]

Head into the wind when you row up and not at 90 degrees to it

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Sometimes you just have to row into the wind and bale right up the rake's a#$e, it's all you can do .
Good if the wind goes the right way for the field, an utter nightmare if no

 

[digger64]

Ok I think I know the answer to this but, is there anything you can do to stop your windrows blowing across the Feild on a windy day?

Having a bad time of the hay making this year and every time I think I’m getting somewhere another problem knocks me back. After a smashed knotter frame then some rain we get a brake in the weather and it’s too windy!

the other day just to get finished we ran the loader tractor up and down the swathe to flatten in front of the baler , not ideal but a quick fix at the time with what we had there at the time already rowed up .

 

[farmerm]

In this weather you can bale behind the mower!

If you like spending a lot of effort to make a fire..