swath wilters

spin cycle

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anybody use something like these?
 

Hillside

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Carnbo
we have a fransgard 2.2m and does a great job in straw,lifts and sets the bout up nice and square to get a decent bout for the wind to blow through
 

spin cycle

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north norfolk
we have a fransgard 2.2m and does a great job in straw,lifts and sets the bout up nice and square to get a decent bout for the wind to blow through

i'm after one for hay making...my old home built job based on an old kidd straw chopper finally expired today.......trouble is the wilters just seem to be wufflers with stronger tines
 

An Gof

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Cornwall
They don't work. They put the crop back down on the wet underside. Single rotor rake would be better, and more useful.

They aren’t perfect but they do work. Have borrowed one for last couple of seasons and they do the job, even on very heavy swaths of oat straw.
single rotor rakes do move the straw to dry ground but they only roll it over and don’t vigoursly split up matted and grown in swaths.
 

Bramble

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doubtless they are good for straw but i want it for grass......i want something that dents the stem but i doubt they'll do it :scratchhead:

No they won’t do that. Had a Teagle Superted for years, we tried using to dry grass but it would never dry quick enough, a Tedder was far superior. It was used to dry straw swathes for years but it soon smashed it up if you went over it more than once, we now use a twin rotor rake.

Id be looking for a mower conditioner (crimping rollers not tines) with a spreading hood on it.
 
@spincycle If youve got a hay Bob just use that, there's 1000s of acres of grass made on your scale each year with nothing else. By the time you've debated what woofler to get and then get it it'll be that extra day gone anyway, crack on with the hay Bob and be done with it.
He’s got bits falling off the mower so maybe He should splash out on a moco followed by the haybob. The yard of many bargains must have something to suit him, i presume they do have a nettle patch to hide stock suitable for Spin in?😂
 

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