Larbear, I doubt that my areas are any different from yours. When I was haying 90 acres they were spread out at thirteen different locations with multiple separate fields at these separate locations. Few of the fields were nice rectangles. I learned to break the fields down into rectangles, with almost no left turns. Every left turn necessitates two additional right turns. The first time around clockwise you round your corners off. The next four you just cruise around the corners at 3-4 MPH. After four times around the corners are getting tight so you come out at either short end and go halfway down the end and then go back down the middle. This is what is referred to as "striking off lands". At this point also the "back swath" is mowed. At each corner a loop is done to make the second needed pass. When mowing the lands you lift your mower at the ends and come around in a smooth 4 MPH arcing turn and then go back on the other side. When the land gets narrow you don't make a tight right turn, you make an easy left turn and go over to the adjacent land maintaining 4-5 MPH. I know little about swathers. They are not in use in this area. From what I have seen of how they steer I can't imagine keeping one under control at 5 MPH. Larger farms of course use wider mowers or mount three ten footers on a tractor, one in the front and two on the back. A few use what could be called a swather which has a ten footer in front and one on each side towards the rear. Search for Krone Big M. Owning a separate machine with a separate drive train to maintain never appealed to me at all. For most of my years of making hay I worked around running a business and did most of my mowing in the evening. With my limited available time I needed to get 15 -20 acres down in a fairly short amount of time when I had a good weather window. I hope that this make sense.
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