alacowman wrote:Cuts the hay and windrows it,In one pass..saves a lot of time I'm sure with those big fields . Wouldn't be good for south Texas,or here cause of the humidity...thinking more about it, if you were doing baleage here,it could be handy...
Faster horses wrote:They have different size heads and come with conditioners if needed. We have had one since the early 70's. Now they have them with rotary heads, that cut faster. They are in excess of $100,000 new. Our first one was $7000. It was International 275, a cutting machine in those days. We have had New Holland, more IHC's and the newest and best was a John Deere. The only one we bought new was the first one. It had a 12' head, and the last one was a 20'.
lavacarancher wrote:Faster horses wrote:They have different size heads and come with conditioners if needed. We have had one since the early 70's. Now they have them with rotary heads, that cut faster. They are in excess of $100,000 new. Our first one was $7000. It was International 275, a cutting machine in those days. We have had New Holland, more IHC's and the newest and best was a John Deere. The only one we bought new was the first one. It had a 12' head, and the last one was a 20'.
The cost is exactly what I was thinking about the swather. I just bought a new Kuhn 9'6" hay cutter and it didn't cost me anywhere near $100K. I pull it with a 75 HP John Deere, again, no where near $100K. After the hay dries I rake with a 12 wheel rake and follow the rake with a NH BR780 round baler pulled with a IH 1486. Of course I'm not baling 5000 acres either. Some of those fields in Kansas and Nebraska looked like they went on forever. I also noticed that most folks up there bale big square bales. Those square bales sure stack nice.
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