[AT] Hay making

Sat Sep 5 13:56:55 PDT 2020

Rather than brush hogging my field this year, I had a guy hay it. It's
not big, but it was big enough for him to hay it with a 4430. He got a
first cutting that yielded 5 round bales. He's yet to get a second
cutting due to the dry summer we've been having. He is going to cut it
one last time however, now that we've gotten some rain. Normally my
field would be to small, but he cuts some larger fields about 1/8 of a
mile away. It's nice not to have to brush hog it, and the hay goes to
good use, he raises beef cattle.

Mike M

On 9/5/2020 4:32 PM, Mattias Kessén wrote:
> Three cuttings were most common here too but not since2017... 2018 is
> the drought year but even then we got two (not great) cuttings. We
> could have gotten two this ear but why? Better let the sheep eat it
> right away.
>
> Den lör 5 sep. 2020 22:10Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com
> <mailto:spencer at rdfarms.com>> skrev:
>
>     One of the few advantages of living in the hot, humid, rainy south
>     is that three cuttings - tho not guaranteed  - are common enough. 
>     Two cuttings always.
>
>     Those course tooth sections I believe are Herschel Tigershark:
>
>     https://www.herschelparts.com/aspx/prodDetail.aspx?id=17567
>
>     They were on there when I bought the machine and are popular
>     around here as they are very hard to damage and are very sharp.  I
>     have a  stash of finely serrated knives so whenever I replace one
>     I use those.
>
>     As for rivets versus bolts:   Sometimes I rivet a new section and
>     sometimes I use bolts. Depends on the circumstance. Like this
>     circumstance I would have used rivets so I would not have to
>     replace a stock knife clip. But the knife guard had gone missing.
>     So while I was at the store buying the knife guard i went ahead
>     and spent a few extra bucks on a high-rise clip and I used bolts.
>
>     My rivet setter/punch is getting worn out in the threads from
>     overuse. I’m sure it will last the rest of my lifetime but will
>     probably be nearly useless for whoever buys it from the estate
>     sale my kids have when I am gone :-)
>
>     Spencer
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>>     On Sep 5, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Mattias Kessén
>>     <davidbrown950 at gmail.com <mailto:davidbrown950 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>     Sharp looking knives. Since I've got both a lot of knives and
>>     rivets with my cutter I use rivets, that and the fact that people
>>     f my age don't know how I use rivets.
>>     Third cutting, you're blessed. We only got the firsť. Happily
>>     enough the first was one of a kind we've got hay and silage for
>>     two years though we've already been feeding the sheep in the
>>     pastures with silage for weeks... Yet another year of drought.
>>
>>     Den lör 5 sep. 2020 21:02Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com
>>     <mailto:spencer at rdfarms.com>> skrev:
>>
>>         Third cutting is coming in. Looking pretty decent. Right
>>         towards the end of the cutting the mower started leaving a
>>         small stripe of uncut grass behind it.  I was close enough to
>>         being done  I said screw it and kept cutting. Upon inspection
>>         a knife guard was missing. I’m not sure if you’ve ever taken
>>         one of these off but it’s impossible to take these off
>>         without also taking the knives off. However the knives were
>>         fine though one rivet was sheared. So my guess is it
>>         shattered somehow and then the bolts loosened.
>>
>>         Considering I sort of knew where it might be and knife
>>         guards  are 15 to 20 bucks locally I decided to waste 20
>>         minutes with a metal detector and see if I can find it. I
>>         never could find it but I’m pretty sure I found what
>>         shattered it. I cut the handles clean off one of my wife’s
>>         pruning shears :-) Apparently it dropped out of her pocket or
>>         the Gator sometime recently. Cut those metal handles off
>>         cleanly. I can’t believe there’s no knife damage.
>>
>>         Anyways once again I had to replace some rivets and I used
>>         bolts. Needed a new high-rise clip to clear the bolts and put
>>         that on. Since he asked about using bolts and wondered about
>>         clip clearance, I’ve decided to include pictures for John
>>         Hall. This is a picture of the repair and then a picture of a
>>         normal section with original equipment on it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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