First Haying complete with pics

[ddivinia]

I am finally getting around to posting pics. I baled up our place a couple weeks ago. Here are some pics of the Krone cutter in the KMC mower caddy.

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[ddivinia]

I broke the right hand window out of my tractor with some rocks. I raised the front of the mower just a tad and didn't have any more problems. Trial and error on equipment setup. My dealer had me a window the next day.

Cabs sure are handy,
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[ddivinia]

Hay cutting on front pasture complete. 32 acres complete with trash bag for window.

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[ddivinia]

Raking - wind was blowing so much - had to stay close.

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[ddivinia]

Baling pics,
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[ddivinia]

Final product.

I didn't get any pics of us moving them with the red ox trailer - next time.

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[JESSE1]

You're lucky that rock didn't get you. I wonder if having the mower mounted on the dolly and further behind you allowed the rock to get high enough to hit the window. So far, I've never had a rock hit the tractor while running the mower. Nice hay. Imagine doing all that baling with an open station tractor.

 

[ddivinia]

You're lucky that rock didn't get you. I wonder if having the mower mounted on the dolly and further behind you allowed the rock to get high enough to hit the window. So far, I've never had a rock hit the tractor while running the mower. Nice hay. Imagine doing all that baling with an open station tractor.

Dunno, but the JD mechanic mentioned raising the front of the mower up some to help with that and I forgot to do it. As my bermuda stand fills in, I figure the rock situation will get better.

I have broken out two of the rear lower windows with my batwing. So, I guess it is just luck of the draw. JD offers polycarbonate windows. I have one of them in the lower window and a steel mesh over it.

Without a cab, this work would not be that much fun. I cut 100 acres 8AM to midnight. 2 days to dry and got after it.

D.

 

[atgreene]

Nice pics! Too bad about the window.

We have yet to cut, last week in June is our normal first cutting, but it looks like the thunderstorms are going to continue for another week.

Good luck.

 

[Egon]

Nice pictures. Nice sized bales too! No way the back gets involved with those!

 

[ddivinia]

Nice pictures. Nice sized bales too! No way the back gets involved with those!

Thanks - the bales turned out better than I expected. With the bale track pro, it is hard to screw one up.

48" by 65" is what I had the baler setup to spit out.

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[chetlenox]

Great picture Darin. Those fields look like mine (only bigger)... of course, since you are 20 miles away from me.... they should!

Chet.

 

[flusher]

I am finally getting around to posting pics. I baled up our place a couple weeks ago. Here are some pics of the Krone cutter in the KMC mower caddy.

D.

Cool equipment. How do you like that trailer mower? Any problem on the turns?

 

[ddivinia]

Cool equipment. How do you like that trailer mower? Any problem on the turns?

None at all - just have to learn how to drive it.

I could not imagine not having a caddy - hook up is so easy. Storage is a breeze also.

D.

 

[mark.r]

Everytime I see a window like that it makes me want to buy a haybine rather than a disc mower, but I just don't see how I can transport a haybine efficiently around some of these small roads that we have around here.

Darin looks like everthing is working out nicely.

 

[ddivinia]

A haybine has a sickle mower right?

With all the ant mounds I have, I would never get the place mowed!

I love watching the disc mower do a number on a fire ant mound.

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[mark.r]

A haybine has a sickle mower right?

With all the ant mounds I have, I would never get the place mowed!

I love watching the disc mower do a number on a fire ant mound.

D.

Yeah, they are a sickle bar cutter. I'd rather do a disk mower and am willing to take the chance on doing it even though I don't have a cab on my tractor. It's just that I have issues pulling those big ol' haybines around these smaller roads with the city folk driving rather quickly around corners and such.

 

[ddivinia]

Yeah - it seems discmowers are the way to go. Also, for what I am doing a wider disc mower makes sense because I really don't need to crimp what I bale.

D.

 

[mark.r]

Yeah - it seems discmowers are the way to go. Also, for what I am doing a wider disc mower makes sense because I really don't need to crimp what I bale.

D.

I could do with out the conditioning as well. I am only working with 45hp so have only shopped the 6ft disc mowers. I just cringe everytime I see a rock headed towards the cab . . . but that happens with the rotary as well and no one hesitates to use those on cabless tractors either.

 

[ddivinia]

How many acres will you be cutting?

Rocks are luck of the draw. Now that piece of rebar that took out my first window - that is a different story. An old old fence - I guess we missed one...

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