8010 works really good on it. I was able to go in high 3rd with the powershift some of the time. With the larger wheels that works out to about 10 mph. Was going 7.5 mph in this video. And, the second crop was thick and blooming, so it took HP.
Charlie, it's been a real battle making hay here, too. First crop we did the week prior to Memorial Day. Finished the last of it Sunday evening before Memorial Day. Neighbor had some he was going to bale Memorial Day and got rained out half-way through. Three weeks later he was in our yard asking if we could chop the rest of it back on the ground. It actually rained for four weeks straight!
We snuck out to start on second crop June 28. By the morning of June 30 we had all 120 acres on the ground. Small square baled about 800 on both Thursday and Friday, did another 1100 small squares on Saturday, plus we also made 40 large rounds and 110 big (3x3) squares Saturday and had all but the rounds put away by 12:30 Saturday night. Sunday afternoon (July 4) we got 2" of rain. To make things more interesting, the 8010 lost the rear main seal and was slipping the torque limiter at the end of cutting and round baling. Saturday morning the gear shift lever on the D-17 came off in my hand when I went to rake. Switched tractors and finished raking. Guy we hired to big square bale had his new JD 7x30 tractor die in the neighbor's field Saturday afternoon. Couldn't find a mechanic on a holiday weekend, so about 7 pm he showed up with a 4430 on the baler and had our 110 baled by 9 pm. Joystick on loader tractor broke when we went to gather the big squares, so we had to do that with the skid-loader.
I really hope we get back to a more normal weather pattern. This doing a month's work in five days is going to kill me! Grand total of 110 big square, 2700 little square and 53 big (5x6) round off of 120 acres. Too bad it was all mediocre hay and not the best dairy quality.
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