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Charlie M

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Finally got to cut some hay here after most of June being a wash out here. I'm cutting a field that is about 95% timothy, some tipped due to weather. I'm using a NH469 haybine. Obviously not the newest machine in town but has worked OK in the past. Timothy is about 3 weeks past its prime so its not as green as it would have been earlier. Problem is it likes to wrap around the rollers and if I don't catch it quick it plugs up. I could be almost cutting faster with a mowing machine with a lot less problems but the only problem is making a second trip with the hay crusher. I've slowed down some from what I normally cut and it has helped some. Anyone else have these problems.
 
I had the same problem with my first crop hay. It was a twisted mess with lots of dandelions. I finally gave up and hired a guy with a discbine to cut it. Otherwise I would still be out there. Thsi is the worst mess I ever had. It just wouldn't go through the rolls. I have a Hesston PT-7 and had to continually get off and use a pipe wrench to turn the rolls back to clean out the machine
 
We had some Costal Bermuda get away from use once before the disk cutters. We did not have a hay bine. I decided to try the 72-inch rotary mower and it worked just fine and did "condition" the hay a bit. Where we are in the deep south we expect one day drying and I doubted we would get that having used the rotary. It dried well. The hay was so deep and we ran the bailer the next day without a rake. The hay was not real good but we had to clean up a mess with the deep grass.
 
Use a 479 NH since 78 and only once had it try and wrap around the rollers. I was in such heavy grass that there was not enough room to get it away from the rollers out the back. Otherwise I have never had a problem getting it through the rollers or wrapping.
 
Now that you mention it, yes, I've had that happen too. But usually as long as I kept going forward it would be OK. It would wrap if I tried to back up.
 
I use a Matthews Rotary Scythe. It cuts anything. Mowing wet grass will cause it to spit out slugs that have to be broken up by hand but it never plugs up. Sucks up a lot of power, though, and the knives are expensive.
 
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