John Deere 7600 and MoCo haybine cutting hay in 2012. Subscribe to How Farms Work ► bit.ly/XYVvDd Facebook ► on. YpS8oH • Cutting Hay - John Dee... How Farms Work Store ► bit.ly/HFWStore
Alfalfa looks good, you have to rake the windrows. I was a fram boy during the 1930s and 40s, we had an old Oliver tractor, hay had to be cut with a cycle mower and raked into windrow then we bailed it with an old International 3 wire bailer. Great film.
I just found your channel this weekend and I'm watching them all. I grew up on a farm in WI very similar to this so this is great to watch. You're doing a great job with the videos and I see how they've gotten better as you've done more. Thanks for sharing! I wish I were still on the farm too.
It grows every Spring. You plant oats to start it off the first year, then hay will grow subsequent years. Generally it'll grow for a few years until the grass takes over. It's good for hay and silage both.
Deere's are called Mo-Co's (mower conditioners), New Hollands called their original sickle mower/roller conditioners "Haybines" (like "combines" but for hay I suppose) and their newer disk mower/conditioners are called "diskbines"... Folks tend to use the terminology interchangeably; like in parts of the South a rotary mower is called a "Bush-hog" despite the fact that Bush-Hog is a manufacturer of a very popular line of rotary mowers (for which they are perhaps best known, though they make lots of other equipment including hay mowers, disks, plows, and such). They've even turned the brand name into a verb, as in "I'm going to bush-hog some land". We always called them "shredders" because we primarily used them to cut down and chop up crop stalks after harvest before disking and plowing the land in the fall, and secondarily for shredding weeds and stuff in the pasture... Funny how equipment names and terminology differs from place to place. Later! OL J R :)
I could not give a solid answer, my guess would be that the terrain and field sizes have to do with it. There are plenty of self propelled mowers in the area, but the only fixed mounted ones I've seen are for brush cutting.
so they can drive through a already planted corn field and don't destroy the plants. but what woud be more interesting: why are there no fix mounted mowers over there.
How do you like your mower? We had a John Deere MoCo and did not like it at all. Last year we bought a new Kuhn Gyrodine (traded our older Kuhn and our JD for it)
Discbine. ;p No rollers, tho? I always assumed everything used rollers except green choppers (that is what I called them, I'm referring to hay choppers/cutters where you didn't dry the hay).
they do have fixed mowers but if you want one you would have to have one tractor just for it cause if Ur tractor with front mount broke what are you gonna use? in Canada people use both and for bulldeere's question if we want wide tires we just put duals on wide tires are pointless here
not a haybine its a discbine because of the turtles, i have a real haybine because it uses a sickle bar. Sickle bar = knives that slide back and forth on top of each other
