Hi, Bob. Isn't it great how those rotary headers cut compared to a sickle? Have two sons who have been running MF Hesston edition self-propelled swathers with rotary headers for many years cutting their own hay and doing custom work. I ran one of them for three summers doing mostly custom work cutting everything from alfalfa to 12' tall sorghum-sudan. In my experience prairie hay would dull the the cutting blades faster than about anything else. We would touch up the blades with a 4 grinder between replacements when they became dull. We could usually run an entire season on a set of blades but there were always times when a rock, tree limb, or other object that would be encountered which damaged the blades beyond repair. I have encountered everything from a stack of oil field pipe to a harrow section, to tree limbs and even railroad ties and many wild animals. Once got ahold of some weed barrier material a person had laid down years before along a tree row in a grass meadow and he forgot to mention it to me. In a matter of a couple of seconds it had pulled in probably a hundred feet of that nasty stuff and wrapped it up in the end roller so tight it killed the engine. Took me several hours and hundreds of colorful words before I got that stuff out of the header. The amazing thing about those disk headers is their capacity. Cutting only 60 or so acres a year your blades should easily last 3-4 years if you do a little touch up with a grinder periodically. Also, we never worried much about balance and would only replace both blades at the same time if they were worn excessively. Blades frequently got bent but were able to straighten most cases with a 12-15 crescent wrench. Enjoy your swather.
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