Hay cutting

grandpa Love · Apr 15, 2020

Friend of mine called and wanted his field cut. Really thin in places. Really nice in others. About 5 acres. Lots of fun! Beautiful day here in Alabama. Video is a bit long. But we were there a few hours.
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David G · Apr 15, 2020

Road hog.

rustred · Apr 15, 2020

the hitch should slide over for transport. then tractor would be no wider than machine. my 489 has 3 settings.

charlie n · Apr 15, 2020

Trash is why I don't custum cut. Why didn't you swing the tounge all the way over?

grandpa Love · Apr 15, 2020

Slid all the way one way for transport. Then to middle of the 3 holes for cutting position. Its still wide.

rustred · Apr 15, 2020

I pulled mine home on the hyway when I bought it and it was not that wide. but yours is the older model so I don't know how the hitch is.

SVcummins · Apr 15, 2020

Looks good Kevin I could watch that all day.. looks like it?s doing a good job

larry@stinescorner · Apr 16, 2020

very nice video!!!!!

showcrop · Apr 16, 2020

When I towed my IH 990 140 miles, mainly on the interstate, I had some sort of tow bar on the truck that enabled me to offset maybe a foot. That is a different mowing pattern. How did you decide where to go. Removing those thistles rather than crushing and spreading the seeds is a very good practice.

Bill VA · Apr 16, 2020

Looks good - are you going to rake and bale it?

tn terry t · Apr 16, 2020

I put a hitch receiver all the way to the left corner of my 2x6 square tubing bumper. the whole cutter aligns up right behind the truck.

grandpa Love · Apr 16, 2020

Plan to take and bale. That's the other half of the fun!

grandpa Love · Apr 16, 2020

Showcrop..... I need cutting pattern
help. Odd shape field. No idea what I'm
doing. Lol. Any tips?

Traditional Farmer · Apr 16, 2020

If you are going to do a lot of towing farm equipment take the rear bumper off the truck and bolt on a real heavy duty angle the full width of the truck then you can hitch up where ever you need to.

JK-NY · Apr 16, 2020

I enjoyed the video. Looks like the 960 did a good job and everything worked. Is this the normal time for first cutting hay in your area? The hay looks really light. It should be easy to get it dry enough to bale. You probably can rake 2 or 3 windrows together ahead of the baler so you have a decent windrow, it will make baling go faster and you will make a better bale. I hope the good weather holds up for you. Good luck and keep us posted on how things go.

grandpa Love · Apr 16, 2020

It's about 2-3 weeks early, but my friend wanted it cut. He has been busy hogging it for several years and wanted to get any dried up left overs out before the good bahia grew up. It was real light in places. But really nice in others. Plan to spread fertilizer at some point. Will have to take several rows together in places.

jddrawbar · Apr 16, 2020

Haybine doing a nice job....thought you were going to stop and break up that vicious fight the boys were in....lol. Really nice to see the family doing things together. Thanks for posting

JK-NY · Apr 16, 2020

I remember taking a vacation to Myrtle Beach S.C. over the April school break in the late 1990?s and seeing people cutting hay at that time. Makes me jealous of your weather. We have 2? snow on the ground here this morning, some yesterday and supposedly a little more tomorrow.

Super H Mike · Apr 16, 2020

Good job ! Nice easy cutting there, not so much fun when the stuff is as high as the rear tractor tire ! That's what happens to me some years when its too wet to get in there and cut.

showcrop · Apr 16, 2020

(quoted from post at 05:34:13 04/16/20) Showcrop..... I need cutting pattern
help. Odd shape field. No idea what I'm
doing. Lol. Any tips?

My cutting pattern and everyone else's around here has always been start with five passes clockwise around the outside, then do a U-turn to the left and mow the back swath counterclockwise. I don't go deep into the corners on my initial trip around in order to give myself a good path for most of the cutting, so I often make an extra pass in the corners when back swathing. After five times around the corners are getting tight, so since most fields here tend to be odd shaped at this time I cut the odd arms so as to be able to keep speed up for the main part of the field. Rather than drag the mower around tight corners I come out of the un-mowed part at the short end and then go across the headland to the center of that end and then cut right down the center dividing the un-mowed part into two rectangles. I will go around one of them until the ends get tight, then do a U-turn to the left and go back on the other half then up again on the first half until the first half is done. I hope that this makes sense. This pattern results in less drive line wear on tight turns, almost no dead heading and keeping speed up around 5 MPH.

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