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Loooking for an old swather have my eye on a 5000 with I believe a14 foot header wonder how many acres they will do in a day or hour or how many mph are there any real problems with them there are a couple other for sale 1114 new holland will be cutting irrigatied Alfalfa and irrigated timothy just wonder what they could get done how the compare thanks
 
The 1114 will flat knock down hay if the sections
and guards are good five or 6 mph . The
international is also a good one .
 
I have cut a lot of hay with a swather, and really like
them. That being said, this year I purchased a 10
disc mower, and can cut just as much if not more
with it than I could with my 12 foot swather. With my
old swather I could easy knock down 50 acres of
hay in a day, and still do morning and night milking
chores. A modern swather with a disc mower head
and a good cab with AC would be so nice, but way
outside my budget. Open station swathers leave
you in the sun and dust. Sickle bar heads with
drapper canvas can be expensive to maintain, and
need to be in top condition to preform. A new
canvas for my JD swather was $800.00 and they
wanted $1,500.00 for a knife with a head attached.
Just a heads up if you think you can pick one up
cheap, parts are, like everything else not cheap. ,
and for older units no longer available. Buddy of
mine picked up a CaseIH, built by Heston for
$18,000.00 last fall. This spring he has dropped 5
grand into wobble box and wobble drive assembly,
and still has a old machine. Just saying. My new 10
ft disc mower with no conditioner was 14 grand, and
I run it with a cab tractor with air conditioning. Why
do you want a swather?
 
The reason I want a swather is for maneuverability and I also don?t have a free tractor to run a disk mower I run 4 new holland 278 balers so all my small tractors are taken this guy has 3 5000s 1 for parts and 2 good ones wants 8000 for them all where I am from that?s pretty cheap
 
(quoted from post at 10:47:22 09/01/19) I have cut a lot of hay with a swather, and really like
them. That being said, this year I purchased a 10
disc mower, and can cut just as much if not more
with it than I could with my 12 foot swather. With my
old swather I could easy knock down 50 acres of
hay in a day, and still do morning and night milking
chores. A modern swather with a disc mower head
and a good cab with AC would be so nice, but way
outside my budget. Open station swathers leave
you in the sun and dust. Sickle bar heads with
drapper canvas can be expensive to maintain, and
need to be in top condition to preform. A new
canvas for my JD swather was $800.00 and they
wanted $1,500.00 for a knife with a head attached.
Just a heads up if you think you can pick one up
cheap, parts are, like everything else not cheap. ,
and for older units no longer available. Buddy of
mine picked up a CaseIH, built by Heston for
$18,000.00 last fall. This spring he has dropped 5
grand into wobble box and wobble drive assembly,
and still has a old machine. Just saying. My new 10
ft disc mower with no conditioner was 14 grand, and
I run it with a cab tractor with air conditioning. Why
do you want a swather?
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Bruce, guy about 60 miles west of me that I know cuts hay with a rig that has a front mount discbine/conditioner and then trails one to either side behind the tractor. Claims he has got to knock down 40 acres an hour for it to pencil out. And you thought 50 in a day was good!

He raises and sell organic hay to organic dairies.

I still have trouble wrapping my head around 40 acres an hour :shock: .

Rick
 
Starting to become common here with large dairy
guys, I am not in that league, ha ha. You are correct
about the speed, cutting 30 foot each pass and
going 6-8 mph, makes a guys head spin. Just
getting a front mount 3pth and front pto adds
around 20 grand to the cost of the tractor running
the rig.
 
I ran a 280 Owatonna 12 foot hydro Draper style head for quite a few years. Best I did was 100 acres on contoured fields in a ten hour day, oats standing straight three foot tall. Hydro as fast as it could
go on long runs and fields sometimes 3/4 mile long. Raised the Hume reel up so it did not touch the grains. That year I cut 280 acres for us and a couple of the neighbors.1990 was the year. I would not
want to do it again as I got sunburned real bad.
 
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