Makin rope

rockyridgefarm · Aug 31, 2022

Dug the old John Deere 660 rope maker out today. I gave the neighbor my Krone 42t to use. I am remembering why this one has not moved in 3 years.

tomstractorsandtoys · Aug 31, 2022

You sure do know how to hurt a persons feelings. I still use two 640's. Next thing you are going to start bashing 3010's. Tom

rockyridgefarm · Aug 31, 2022

(quoted from post at 10:34:53 08/31/22) You sure do know how to hurt a persons feelings. I still use two 640's. Next thing you are going to start bashing 3010's. Tom

Sorry Tom, I did not realize you were such a sensitive fellow.

You pry could not guess who I cleaned for yesterday.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 31, 2022

Here I though you were actually making rope, like used
in a rope halter.

I never did like the side delivery rake after it tried
other styles of rake. I had a NH rake/tedder for several
years, but eventually I moved to a Kuhn Vee rake.
Doesnt seem to wrap the hay like the old side delivery
raked did, and few moving parts, and much greater
speed.

In making actual rope, I have many many times hand
braided bale twine to make rope. Big square bale twine
makes an excellent rope.

Tgrasher · Aug 31, 2022

I don't remember ever buying rope, we always braided what we needed. Trying to make a rope longer than the hay string it's self was always a trick. Had a neighbor who could push the ends of the twine together, intermingling them and get them to hold good enough to run through the baler.

Loosehandle · Aug 31, 2022

I use two rakes hooked together also and they don't even match....cost 0

GermantownGreen · Aug 31, 2022

Hey there, that's what we use too, it is a
good rake, it holds itself up, with that
dolly wheel, it'll push those nasty big
swaths of hay together better than any vee
rake can, and keep on ticking....

Nice looking hay too! GG Wes

Northvale PA · Aug 31, 2022

One nice thing about the rope effect And alfalfa is how well the hay feeds into a baler on the thinner later
cuttings. they work good for us.

showcrop · Sep 1, 2022

My New Holland "Haymaker's Handbook" from the 1960s advised that if you had a problem with your baler picking the windrow up that it may be due to going in the opposite direction in which the hay was raked, and that you wanted the "rope effect". Obviously times change and as each guy bought a new rotary he would start calling roll-a-bar rakes "rope makers" I still use a a JD 640. I have tried rotaries but my ground is not smooth enough.

Texasmark · Sep 3, 2022

Well its common knowledge that the side discharge, parallel bar will do that with long stemmed product. However I have both
types basket and bar and I use the bar 95% of the time because it works.

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