[AT] today in the snow - also Harvest machinery trip

[Ralph Goff]

On 4/12/2013 4:23 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> Ralph: I could sure use that 24 ft swather.  If the header did not hit
> the terraces, It might have enough hay in it to not have to rake
> windrows together to bale.!!!  Our hay is so short that a 12 ft swather
> will not really fill up a baler pickup...
> Cecil in OKla
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> Cecil, if you mean that IH 4000 swather I don't think it would be my first choice to cut hay. I had a 19.5 foot model 4000 and while I did cut hay with it , I had to go very slow or else the knife would hammmer so bad I was afraid of breaking the $1500 wobble box. I'll admit that a new set of sickles and guards might have helped some but it always cut flax ok so it couldn't have been too bad. I'm much happier cutting hay with my old NH 479 haybine. If the crop is thin I just rake two or three windrows together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovcoV2QM2yI

Ralph in Sask.