How are you going to bale it? Small or large squares, or small or large rounds? Can sometimes tell how many acres cut by how many bales you get.
For yields I've been told 100 small squares an acre is good but I don't think we ever got that on any farm I've worked on. Would have to be some very thick hay. Most I remember was 500 bales on 7 acres making for around 71 an acre. We seemed to average 60 an acre. This was without fertilizer though.
It doesn't read like any more than 4 or 5 acres at those speeds, and those are normal speeds. Cutting with a mower like that is pretty slow work. Farmer I worked for used to run a 469 on a 770. Usually ran 1st gear at 3/4 throttle. Averaged an acre an hour. Very slow but it did cut well. I think the side mounted sickle bars work good, though I wouldn't like to see what would happen if one hit a rock. Neighbor can cut 3 acres considerably faster with a 5' sickle bar than he can a 7' foot haybine. I think some people call the haybines sickles and the sickle bars are then cycle bar or something but I always knew them as sickle bar, haybine, MoCo, discbine, SP, etc.
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