Re: hay rake advice

Posted by Texasmark1 on October 15, 2017 at 18:00:46 from (99.197.190.172):

In Reply to: hay rake advice posted by Keith Molden on October 15, 2017 at 07:55:44:

I don't have a V but I have a 4 wheel 3 pt and I have a parallel bar, some call them side discharge (thought all rakes side discharged...purpose of the implement) JD 660. I have had the wheel for 12 years and thought it a waste but it proved it's worth to me on this sparse hay patch.

Mine works fine in the straightaway but you get in turn, like I have in my home patches and it makes sloppy corners. It is great for picking up every blade of grass as it is ground contact with a flat blade tip. Being 3 pt it is nice to lift and drop at the right times when you want to skip over places and easy to transport.

The JD on the other hand tends to skip over minor variations in the soil unless you force the spiked fingers into the soil and even at that it doesn't have the same degree of ground contact....leaves product on the ground. It's 9' and can cover 2ea 6' spaced WWs like my 6' drum mower makes, or if using a JD 1209 9' swather it can follow adequately if you have the ww deflector down where it doesn't ww but spreads out the full width. It is the drag type with the 3rd wheel up front.

For big WWs and raking into the wind the JD wins hands down. For raking where the ground beats you to death in the seat if you try to rake at the speed the basket requires, JD hands down. For raking thick, heavy stalked crops like the 8' Gotcha plus Sorghum-Sudan hay patch I had in 2014 (I have pictures that I've posted) it wins hands down.

So, for my current sparse project, I run over it fast with the basket raking numerous passes into a half decent WW then come back with the JD and clean up the curved areas and tuck the straightaway into clean WWs.

To each his own. This is what I have found to work for me....a STO trying to survive.

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