splitting a straw swath

Matt L

Member
Trade
Location
Suffolk
Yes there is a way, you make a divider that sits on the back below the rotors that separate it into two half’s. Might have a picture, but think it’s been talked about on here before
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Use a haybob, a neighbour used to bale smalls with a Jones baler behind a 10ft wide swath made by 25ft combine, he never grumbled even in 3t/ac of straw crops, they’d come out almost touching :ROFLMAO:
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
is there any way to split a swath from a 40ft rotary so it could be baled by a narrower pick up baler

What do you have access too? If you have a single rotor rake it’s fairly simple to do. Just go steadily and drive so that you flick half the swath over, leaving the other half in place.
Not sure, but wouldn’t a haybob on low PTO revs do similar?
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
used hay bob with very low pto speed, also, if heavy crop and little baler, make flat 8 into 6, stops it jamming up the sledge,
or, do like we do now, get it delivered in on a lorry
 

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