the cocky phesant

[blackbob]

our one looks a bit bigger

Must be an age thing but that one does look narrow and I can't remember there being different sizes, apart from the yellow single-row Bamford Wuffler. The Pheasants (including the fully-mounted Flying Pheasant) and the similar Nicholson were 10ft wide to take two 5ft mower bouts. In theory they could be used for rowing-up but in practice they didn't really pick up very cleanly, so everyone used an Acrobat for that.
Didn't the Golden Pheasant (like the Flying Pheasant) have big yellow rowing-up doors, where the basic ones had long tines on the back?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Not sure here but there was a cock pheasant, and also the hen pheasant both trailed, the latter being smaller, then the flying pheasant that was mounted

 

[donniedingle]

now this has me thinking, my memories of them, was the times were fastened to a rubber strip,which gave it the draught to lift the hay, correct me if i'm wrong, but jones made them too and allis chalmers as well as

 

[blackbob]

Ahh don't think I've ever seen a 'Hen', that must be what that is in the ebay listing.
@donniedingle I had just found this and was about to scan it

 

[donniedingle]

aye blackbob thats the one i was thinking of

 

[cat]

had a quick look tonight and it a lely cock pheasent double five also seem to remember their should be a set of barn doors that go on the back as well as the tines

 

[mf298]

Must be an age thing but that one does look narrow and I can't remember there being different sizes, apart from the yellow single-row Bamford Wuffler. The Pheasants (including the fully-mounted Flying Pheasant) and the similar Nicholson were 10ft wide to take two 5ft mower bouts. In theory they could be used for rowing-up but in practice they didn't really pick up very cleanly, so everyone used an Acrobat for that.
Didn't the Golden Pheasant (like the Flying Pheasant) have big yellow rowing-up doors, where the basic ones had long tines on the back?

many ''happy'' weeks with flying pheasant - having to take it off tractor and put back on in transport position and back again. Wasn't a bad machine but not as good as cock pheasant.

 

[Bluetooth]

our last cock pheasant disintegrated about 10 years ago turning straw we kept finding lumps of it in bales all winter. got a robin hood wuffler now which is near enough the same thing.

 

[colhonk]

The Fan Ted was a far better machine,especially in thick crops,until the rubber strip the tines were fastened too became weak and too bendy.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I thought this thread was about the golf!

 

[dunkie]

Bought a good one for £11, a big bag of tines for £13, a few years back,

 

[Cow1]

Anyone remember the New Holland Crimper??
I was bought to tears as a young lad trying to not block it up, then doing so for the umpteenth time and being a hay fever sufferer getting a Stanley knife and bar and un blocking it. Dad would come along and say "what's the problem?" Then drive it perfectly for a bout then I would jump back on and block it up yet again.

 

[jakeboy]

Blanch lely cock pheasant!! Yes spent many haymaking seasons during the late sixties using one of these very good machine! But a ball ache folding up into transport position, nearly all our fields had 10ft gateways!!prefered this machine to the haybob?! After clearing our fields we would under orders of the farmer put on the vicon acrobat scratch up the hay left around the headland, nearly always had a half dozen bales after this task, farmer would always say we might be glad for they bales this winter!!!

 

[Tonym]

The one with the sheet metal doors for rowing up was the Golden Pheasant. It did not clear the ground very well and my father used the Acrobat to "rope" it up then run through with the Pheasant to open it out and spread the lumps before bailing.

 

[Red Fred]

Blanch lely cock pheasant!! Yes spent many haymaking seasons during the late sixties using one of these very good machine! But a ball ache folding up into transport position, nearly all our fields had 10ft gateways!!prefered this machine to the haybob?! After clearing our fields we would under orders of the farmer put on the vicon acrobat scratch up the hay left around the headland, nearly always had a half dozen bales after this task, farmer would always say we might be glad for they bales this winter!!!

Our old neighbour was just like that,we spent hours reraking round his fields with a Bamford rake for about 2 extra bales, then he always said "Better than a snowball in winter, boy!"

 

[Goweresque]

Our old neighbour was just like that,we spent hours reraking round his fields with a Bamford rake for about 2 extra bales, then he always said "Better than a snowball in winter, boy!"

Many moons ago as a lad I remember watching a neighbour of my Father's go backwards and forwards across a field Dad had just baled with one of the old hay rakes, the type with the curved tines that just swept above the ground. Every 25 yards or so he'd pull a lever and the tines would lift up dropping the wisps of hay it had accumulated in a line. Eventually he had series of small swathes of hay lined up, which Dad then baled for him, and he carted off for his calves for the winter. I've a feeling he got 25 to 30 bales off what looked like a clean field.