Single or Twin Rotor

[deutz.agrostar]

I am about to dive in and buy my first rake, currently hay bob.

Just bought a round baler for the first time and can't decide whether to buy a new single rotor or spend same money on used twin?

On the plus siide twin is faster and better rows for baler but will be worn compared with a new single rotor. It is a real dilemma for me at the moment and I have set a 'deadline' of this week to make a decision.

All suggestions appreciated, but don't suggest new twin as I haven't the budget.

 

[jack6480]

buy mine!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200903038874?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

[Maxxum-man]

Single rotors are a pain in the backside when coming to change fields through narrow gateways having to take rake arms off! Find a small twin rotor, much more consistent row for bales aswell!

 

[jumbojimbo]

With a single you have the option to put as many rows as you like into one but as jack6480 says unless your fields are bigger than ours it becomes a pain taking off the tines between fields. That said people will change a single rotor to get a twin but only change a twin when it is worn out so tidy second hand twins may be hard to come by.
A crop rowed with a twin will have less lumps to bale than one done with a single rotor as the grass lies one way as oposed to half one way and half the other but that said a single is far better than a haybob.

 

[balerman]

Depends a lot on who is going to use it,someone steady and willing to fiddle about should do a good job with a single rotor,but don't send a student in a hurry,or anyone not used to it or you will end up with badly shaped bales,rowing up is crucial for good bales.Twin rotors much easier to make a good row.

 

[Andyrob]

I am about to dive in and buy my first rake, currently hay bob.

Just bought a round baler for the first time and can't decide whether to buy a new single rotor or spend same money on used twin?

On the plus siide twin is faster and better rows for baler but will be worn compared with a new single rotor. It is a real dilemma for me at the moment and I have set a 'deadline' of this week to make a decision.

All suggestions appreciated, but don't suggest new twin as I haven't the budget.

why not take advantage of the 0% finance on the Vicon rakes?

 

[deutz.agrostar]

why not take advantage of the 0% finance on the Vicon rakes?

I'd like to make this a straight cash purchase.

 

[Andyrob]

I'd like to make this a straight cash purchase.

well im going to look at a rake tomorrow evening thats being traded in for a bigger one. its currently a 24ft one krone only 6 months old they want to go to a very big one. Il keep you informed if you like

 

[Stoxs]

All depends on how much you are going to do per season.
40 -50 acres then a single will do fine, 200+ and i think a twin would be worth having.
Never had any problems baling behind a single rotor rake, as others have said you need someone sensible on it. Bigish twins are often quiet tall when folded up, if you got lots of low branches around roads you might have some problems wihtout taking half the tines off.
Also will there be enough staff aorund to have someone on it all the time? if not a twin is the way to go, man rowing up can then follow up wrapping or picking up .

Much easyer with a twin and quicker.

 

[rjjeng]

I bought a very old kuhn ga7301 twin rotor towards the end of last summer, cheap with arms bent tines missing and all the tyres perished, I only rowed up about 50 acres with it last year and I am well pleased, it is certainly an upgrade from my haybob 5000. Now do I sell the haybob as funds towards a sh lely 6 rotor tedder or keep it as a backup in case the rake dies? the rake could be doing up to 200 acres a year.

 

[newhollandcruzr]

Get a twin rotor with out doubt you won't regret it just try and find one that the user didn't think he was using a chinnooke helicopter !!

 

[Dave W]

I think pottinger do a fairly small fully mounted twin rotor. Might be worth pricing up

 

[brynseiri]

Do you have big crops of silage? If you leave it go massive no baler will touch three into one ever, local idiot did that, and spent the night splitting the rows with pitchforks infront of the baler!!! You are lucky to find a twin rotor traded in for bigger, pick a stick when you see it etc, but the usual reason for a rake to become second hand is it will be bent, same goes for tedders.

 

[Woody]

Single rotor rakes are the work of the devil IMO!

 

[brynseiri]

Single rotor rakes are the work of the devil IMO!

Haybobs even more so!!!

 

[Monty]

Depends how big the fields are and how much your baler can cope with. Don't want to go raking 25 ft of heavy first cut together to find the baler won't cope. We find 10-12 ft of first cut and 20ft of second cut are ideal for the baler. Whats wrong with a second hand single rotor? There are lots of tidy ones about from people who get fed up with them and upgrade to a twin rotor. We have an old 3m kuhn which is painfully slow (4acres/hr) but makes a fantastic job. The bales are much tidier and denser than ones baled behind a haybob.

 

[Grassman]

A lely rotonde is an excellent compromise. Clears about 5.5 metres and leaves an excellent row.
You can narrow it down hydraulically for transport and making smaller rows in thick crops.

 

[Woody]

The lely would be a good choice.

Even if you have a large twin rotor (Kuhn, Claas or whatever) you don't have to run it a full width if the crop is heavy. Just over lap a little more.

 

[grumpy]

Haybobs even more so!!!

Single rotor rakes are the work of the devil IMO!

there both the devils invention best used for filling a hole in a hedge

 

[rob1]

Had a rotunde and while vary width was good, but as it had a fixed headstock it is crap on corners and nothing cleans up like a vertical tine