Mx5100 anyone cut hay ?

[bucktaker]

Hello
Just wondering if any mx5100 owners have pulled a mower/conditioner (haybine) or any disc mower? I imagine a small sq baler is no problem any one do any small rounds?

I still trying to talk myself into one after working on the old MF this past week. Trying to find the right balanced tractor to do it all ....lol


Larry

 

[ford farm boy]

Yes I used my 5100 for hay this year worked great . I would like to have a 7 foot haybine but not in the cards for this year.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/212429-mx5100-haying.html

 

[slowzuki]

NH489 haybine on my L5030HSTC for a few years. Worked well.

 

[bucktaker]

was that 7 or 9 ft nh haybine?

 

[slowzuki]

9 ft'er. Fairly heavy too.

 

[bigbull338]

i know you can pull an 8ft disc cutter with a mx5100.to me that would be better than having to work on the haybine replacing guards an sections.

 

[bucktaker]

Big bull
Are you saying you have used a 8 ft disc mower? 3pt or pull type

Haybines are more popular here and cheaper than disc mowers The real farmers here use discbines but they have 150 hp tractors.

 

[bigbull338]

no i have not used it to pull an 8ft disc mower.but i had a friend of mine that knows tractors like i do an he said it would pull the 8ft disc mower.

 

[5030]

The only time a sickle bar mower conditioner becomes a PITA is when you aren't careful where you stick it (like something else).......

Like Slowzuki, I ran lots of haying equipment with my 5030, including round bailers.

Not to say that it didn't tax the 5030 because it did, but diesels work best when worked.

 

[slowzuki]

My 5030 loved the 4x4 round baler, I just hated moving so many bales and the time spent tying. I wasn't comfortable pulling wagons behind my square baler with the 5030 on my hills so I use my big tractor. If I had a bale wagon though I'd got straight back to baling with my 5030 onto the ground.

 

[5030]

I ran hundreds of rounds with the 638 in twine and the 5030. I'd never think of trying to start a half finsihed bale in the chamber (I'd have no qualms with the M9 or the 105) and I ocassionally ran out of poop bailing wheat straw and found I had the motor firewalled to hold 540. Other than that, it was a fine unit (after I fixed the wimpy ac unit)........

The torque rise on a turbocharged engine is much better as is the useable torque curve. You 'get into' a turbo'd engine with an imposed load and the engine will hold it's rpm. A big plus round bailing.

I still own the 638. It gets used ocassionally for those customers that prefer a twined 4x4, my wife included. I find the BR780 with it's net wrapper to be a better handling bale and quicker plus the xtra sweep pickup and computer bale monitor makes it easier to roll a nice round and square shouldered bale.

I not so fondly remember haying on an open station tractor.....Have no desire to do that ever again.