We finally got some decent hay weather and everyone is cutting. Passed 2 large Fendt tractors mowing the same field today with setups I have never seen. Each tractor had 2 discbines mounted to the rear which stuck out around 10' past each rear wheel. Then there was a discbine mounted to the front of the tractor. Looked like they were mowing 30' or so per pass and they were moving right along ! Didn't get any pics I was going 50 when I passed them. Pretty neat setup though !
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BIG dairy farm has a tractor with a disc mower setup like that. They used to rent the little hay patch across the fence from our house, maybe 5 acres, only took him maybe 10 minutes to mow it then had a couple other larger patches further down the road. Had a 150+ hp tractor on the mowers. He'd come back the next day with the Merger to make one windrow out of 2 or 3. The short windrows and odd shape of the patches caused a lot of wasted time when mowing and chopping. Used tandem axle trucks for haylage, used semi's for corn silage. If you had a silage blower big enough you could fill a 16x40 silo in an hour with his equipment.
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One of the dairy farms where I hung out as a kid mows with a Krone BigM. It has three 10' 9" headers. They then merge three swaths from the Big M into one big swath with a huge wheel rake, then pick it up with a huge New Holland chopper. They have around 15 ten wheeler trucks with long bodies to haul back to the farm
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