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Topic: Video-mowing hay

Posted By: Russ-neia
Subject: Video-mowing hay
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 3:59pm

Trying to put some videos on YouTube. This should be one of mowing second crop hay a couple weeks ago with the 8010 and our new discbine.

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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 4:04pm

Nice setup, Russ. But does that 8010 have enough horses for the job?!!? LOL

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Posted By: dpower
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 4:20pm

Man those are so much nice than a windrower. We just got a Hesston(agco) one and love it. NO more getting plugged and having to go back and unplug it. Thanks for the video

Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 4:32pm

Second crop? Around here they didn't get a first cutting till a couple weeks ago. We didn't have 3 days without rain since the end of May. First crop alfalfa could have been combined for seed by the time it was cut for hay.

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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 5:43pm

Charlie, sounds like you've been having the same sort of weather as my brother in western Wisconsin. Last summer he kept calling me to tell me how much first crop he had left while we watched it rain here. This summer.....just the opposite!

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Posted By: Jack(Ky)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 6:44pm

Looks like a slick running outfit.JP

Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 7:53pm

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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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 8:29pm

Wow, Russ - I'm not sure which part of your story is worse: the weather or the breakdowns! We've put 4,000+ small squares in the barn with an (sorry...) early 70's JD 4020 running a fairly new Kuhn mower and an ancient (more sorry...) JD 336 baler. The 4020 is a good runner and the baler is making it but it's on its last legs. The haying is being done on my buddy's farm - since he passed away in May we've had various relatives and friends from the next generation pitching in to do most of the work. Sorry - didn't mean to hijack your thread.....just getting carried away, I guess....and missing my friend.

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Posted By: ScottinSWIL
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 9:56pm

Sure could use some of that moisture here in my part of Southern IL. Had more than enough in May and the first couple of weeks of June to hamper planting progress. Now we have went 3 plus weeks without a good soaker and our timber type soils are burning up. One extreme to the next. Ready to start on our 3rd cutting of alfalfa here. Not much to it but if things do not change we will need a bagger on the disc bine for the 4th cutting. We are always 2 weeks away from a drought with some of these light soils. Mississippi river is out of its banks screwing up bottom land yet we need rain. Fun fun fun!