Posted by Leroy on April 16, 2020 at 09:36:55 from (96.45.243.241):
In Reply to: Hay cutting pattern posted by Grandpa love on April 16, 2020 at 06:03:35:
Only seems like the younger ones like just cutting back and forth. I started mowing with a horse drawn mower pulled by a tractor. Only way that could be done was around and around. First piece of machineery I bought was a horse drawn mower in 1959. With those you would have to mow back and forth stop at each end raise cutter bar put out of gear turn and put bar back down and put in gear and how long would that take getting off unit twice for a pass with mower. And those mowers you had to raise bar slightlt to go over the cut hay to mow out the corners that the bar in front of wheels would not do. When the mower came out with wheels in back of bar eliminated that and semi-mount never had that strip left from turning. That is ifyou could make a square corner, turn wheel and hit brake and turn was made. Mow back cut first as that gives you correct starting point for going clockwise. Should be able tosee any obsticales laying in hay to go around them. If you try just going back and forth you have to wait to cut field untill those outside rounds are baled so you are not traveling on them all the time just trampling the hay into ground. And you will never make up lost time traveling empty across ends. The only time back and forth cutting makes any sence is with a self propelled outfit or a hydra-swing that you stay on same side for every cut and then you still have to wait for the outside rounds to get baled. If you have time for waiting from first cutting to baleing before cutting rest of field then might make sence but who has the time to do that. And either your bar mower or your mower-conditioner will make those perfectly square corners you do not have to cut out after rest of field is mowed. This works just as good on any shape field. Only split a field if it is large enough that you want tobale as seperate fields because you could not do it in one day.
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