Drying hay after the rain

Mtjohnso · Jul 2, 2019

Just finished raking hay when it started to rain. It is suppose to stop around 10 tonight.
I assume that I let it dry on top and then turn it to let the bottom dry.
This is grass hay.
I have a Fahr Centipede double basket rake so do I just drive down the row so that one basket picks up the have and moves it over.?
Do you move it to the outside, meaning raking away from center of field?

flying belgian · Jul 2, 2019

Not only hay dry on top but more importantly that the ground is dry before you turn it over. If you turn it over onto wet ground you will have to turn it over again. Not familiar with a basket rake so don't know how you do it. When I rake hay for the second time I usually start in the middle and flip them in.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 3, 2019

I use a two wheel windrow turner to turn windrows up side down

Doesn?t knock the leaves off as much as a rake will

Bob Bancroft · Jul 3, 2019

An old friend used to have one of those mounted on the front of a Super C.

showcrop · Jul 3, 2019

I have a two wheel windrow turner that I am not going to use if anyone wants one.

Destroked 450 · Jul 3, 2019

Not familiar have that type of rake but it needs to not only move the windrow to the side but also roll it upside down exposing the wet hay on the bottom.
That said we us a tedder to scatter to windrows back out and fluff the hay up off of the ground, we also use a tedder after mowing to help dry the hay faster.
A simple two basket tedder works well for small amounts of hay.

We use a 4 basket model that will ted two mower swathes at a time.

Both of the teddies above are made by Sitrex, we have the same 4 basket tedder that was sold by M&W which is now Rhino and still made today.

The Krone tedder below is on our future purchase list.

bison · Jul 4, 2019

I never rake hay after rain,..I use a combine pickup on wheels behind the tractor the pickup is driven myna hydraulic orbit motor.
The pickup lights the swath and fluffs it up and puts the swath in the same shape loosely on the ground again. I can do that a number of times and still have green hay.
A rake rolls the swath often in a bucked up rope that hardly dries, do it again and it gets worse every time.
Anyway that is my opinion.

bison · Jul 4, 2019

(quoted from post at 23:11:49 07/03/19) I never rake hay after rain,..I use a combine pickup on wheels behind the tractor the pickup is driven myna hydraulic orbit motor.
The pickup lights the swath and fluffs it up and puts the swath in the same shape loosely on the ground again. I can do that a number of times and still have green hay.
A rake rolls the swath often in a bucked up rope that hardly dries, do it again and it gets worse every time.
Anyway that is my opinion.

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