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Photo Journal of 3rd Cutting Hay at my Rental Farm

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cam.man67

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Decided to take some pictures of the hay making process here at my rental farm. It's about 20 acres of poorly accessible land, which the landlord won't let me improve on. Not sure how much longer it'll be worth the trouble, but it is pretty good quality pasture. Anyways, I started around 10AM this morning with my MF35 and NH 450/451 hybrid built by Joe's Machinery.

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Top 3 acres cut in just under an hour! Moving onto the second section:
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Nice little outfit that did a lot of work in it's day. Years ago we cut hay with a seven ft. haybine pulled with either a D14 Allis or a Deere 2510 and I enjoyed that more than my cab tractor and discbine I have now. I can cut more but we are traveling so fast you need to pay full attention and not relax like years ago. Nice pics thanks for posting. Tom
 
Cut miles of hay with an Allis C and belly mower. It would cut anything, and you could not pound a tank of gas thru it in a normal day
 
Looks great! That tractor and sickle mower combo still get the job done. If it's anything like my MF50 and MF32 sickle mower,
it's a great hay mowing outfit.

Thanks for posting the pics.

Bill
 
Yes, years ago a person could relax a little more with field work. We used to cut with a 7 foot sickle mower. If you made a round in the alfalfa field without a plug up you were doing good. If you had pocket gopher mounds not so good lol.
 
(quoted from post at 12:33:49 09/06/16) Nice little outfit that did a lot of work in it's day. Years ago we cut hay with a seven ft. haybine pulled with either a D14 Allis or a Deere 2510 and I enjoyed that more than my cab tractor and discbine I have now. I can cut more but we are traveling so fast you need to pay full attention and not relax like years ago. Nice pics thanks for posting. Tom
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That picture just about gives me a panic attack, LOL. I really don't think that I could go back to that.
 
I know all you guys seem to be stuck on sickle mowers and open station but give me a swing arm haybine and cold A/C cab tractor any day!

Rick
 
Time for some more pics...glad you guys are enjoying it so far! After a long lunch with my grandpa, I drove back over (7 miles) and started working again. Progress went slowly as the lower sections have a ton of scrub honey locust trees that the landlord won't let me pull out:
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Of course trying to cut through all this brush and around groundhog holes is taking its toll on the mower. Broke three sections (ran out of new knives but luckily found an unopened box from our old old NH Haybine that gave up the ghost years ago):
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Then the top link threaded itself out on a nasty bump:
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Then the blade angle adjustment bolt thread out and the D-ring that is welded to the breakaway broke...so technically the mower is still cutting but I have to go about half speed now. Only for 6 more acres done yesterday. Headed over this morning to trying and finish up. Just hoping the mower stays together...
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In today's final installment...I finished mowing! I started a little before 10, and after about 3 swaths, the breakaway that had a popped weld yesterday finally broke. Dead in the water. Did some head scratching, since I was so far from home and my shop, and came up with this:
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No more breakaway function, but the field is pretty thin and I was going slow anyways. Finished up about 1. Going to take advantage of the dry heat and try to take and bale part of it tomorrow.
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Just a final shot of the honey locust scourge. Those thorns are sharp!

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Thank you! I'm located in the Middletown Valley, and both my home farm and this rental farm are located about 3 miles from Jefferson, MD. For reference, it is about 30 miles to Baltimore and 15 to Harper's Ferry, WV.
 
Fairly productive day yesterday! Dad raked up about half of it while I got the 856 hooked up to the baler for the first time. It's a Welger RP200 baler with about 11000 bales on it, and worked great til about 25 feet left on the last windrow when two shear bolts sheared in the pickup head.

Raking with the 385 and Vicon rake:
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Onto baling!
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It is a good little tractor and dad and I have put a lot of hours on it for sure. My biggest complaint is that it's very underpowered. For having 38 horsepower, it sure doesn't feel like...never has really.
 
What with getting the baler fixed late Satirday and needing to get hay done before Sunday, only got one picture to share:
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