Posted by showcrop on December 14, 2016 at 05:26:16 from (73.238.20.26):
In Reply to: Narrow front for hay #2 posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on December 13, 2016 at 10:45:14:
The big difference appears to me to be that many guys just don't understand and won't believe that there is a lot of moisture in the ground in some areas. All that you guys in the west have to do to dry hay is to turn the irrigation pump off, and then you mow wide and it dries quickly, or after a day you rake two swaths into one, and bale it with no tedding either way. Here in the Northeast virtually everyone that produces dry hay mows it into a narrow swath, lets the exposed ground and grass dry 5-10 hours, tedds it out, lets it dry another 10 to 15 hours, then rakes, and bales. It is not unusual for moisture in the ground or the weather to make a second tedding necessary. Most of us mow with wide front tractors in order to not drive on the mowed grass and press it down into the damp soil. It makes little difference whether we use a wide or narrow front tractor to pull the rake because we are not turning or merging swaths, we are raking spread hay into windrows. Now doing it your way is fine for you and your ground because it works on dry ground. However, there is rarely a week goes by that no one tells a beginning hay maker to lay it out in as wide a swath as possible in order to dry it faster. Yes some of it will dry faster, but all of what you drive on, mowing the next pass, that gets pressed down into the moist ground, will be making wet bunches when you bale it.
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