Posted by JRSutton on June 03, 2015 at 10:37:53 from (98.110.226.240):
In Reply to: Tedding Hay posted by Dennis@mo on June 02, 2015 at 20:13:24:
I think Don-Wi gave the best answer.
I have to admit, I really don't know. I think like most I've tried it different ways - but unless you do an actual side by side comparison, there are too many variables to account for the different results to mean much.
It would seem to make sense that it'd dry better spread out and fluffed up immediately. On the other hand, right after cutting, the grass is so wet that the air flowing around it probably gets so saturated it becomes very inefficient at drying anyways so it doesn't really matter (unless you've got a strong breeze).
Thing is - I can't really think of a reason NOT to do it. Yeah, letting the ground in between dry - but - wouldn't the ground under the cut hay stay wetter, offsetting any gain of dry ground between?
Funny though - for all the hundreds of years of haying experience out there you'd think it'd be an exact science, with an absolutely definitive answer, documented with facts and figures.
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