This blog helps me write http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/. For example, it contains photo dumps of field trips with some text so that I can search the photos later. It is not intended to be read by others. But if you find photos organized by geography interesting, then enjoy.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Hay Preparation
Before you could bale hay, you had to cut it (and crimp it), let it dry, then rake it.
This is only the second time I've seen a tedder. Both times in the last week or so. The first time was a 1907 photo. When is it used in the mow, wait to dry, rake, bail sequence and what is the purpose? I would like to see a video of it in action. Thanks.
Screenshot, German and some talking head
3:36 is one of the places where it shows the rake tines are twisted up at the windrow and then twisted back down to rake the field.
I normally avoid OneLonleyFarmer videos because sometimes he can be quite negative and use rather rough language. But I'm glad I checked this one out because it is informative. I think he is the farmer that bales a lot of hay for a mushroom farm. In fact, hay may be his only crop. I suggest you quit watching around 6:28.
It seems to me that if he took the flaps off the rear of the mower, he wouldn't have to waste time and fuel on tedding.
Screenshot from video Claas cougar 1400 buffalo county, wi, USA. [And then there were five cutters. You can see that the cutters on the sides use shafts instead of hydraulic motors. So I assume they run shafts to the other three as well.]
Cutting hay for silage. JD 635 Mocoa conveyor on the back so that they can dump a cut on a row that has already been cut. And they do bounce a lot. Shot at end shows the conveyor lifted for the first row of a pair.
Dan Bowen posted
Thanks for the add, here's my 80r and WD45.
Video of horse drawn sickle bar mower. Skip to 0:25. Lots of comments. A video of a JD #17 mower being pulled by a putt-putt. (#37 seems to be another model of JD mowers.) I don't mind cell phone pictures unless they hold it vertically. But you can at least see how the board at the end of the sickle bar creates a bear line for the wheels and how the wood link that drives the sickle bar goes back and forth. Out of site is the crankshaft that is driving that link.
Jeff Wrigley posted The 37 B is ready to go to work. [I'm still trying to figure out how you did the turns with these midmount mowers. I think I saw a video that showed you had to stop and turn while backing up.]
New Idea Unifarmorposted two pictures with the comment "Allis Chalmers B/C tractor mounted sickle mower."
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New Idea Unifarmorposted two pictures with the comment "Allis Chalmers mounted snap coupler hitch sickle mower. Last used on WD tractor. $300." Thomas Spink observed that it is a #7.
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JW Hayes posted Nice old rake I brought home yesterday.CASE No.167?
Andrew Motley posted four pictures with the comment: "Case hay Rake. Does work but needs tlc of course. Trade for old 2 bottom plow with tail wheel in rubber or steel. May toss cash in for the right plow. Really want a Allis Chalmers Plow tho." David ZimaCan it Tedder Hay ...? Andrew MotleyIdk what any of that means! I used it on leafs that's it! This was the first hay rake I've ever owned David ZimaInternational Rake's had a Forward Neutral Reverse Tran's so You could flip the hay over to help dry it ... i don't know if Case did ...
Video of hay mowing and probably crimping. Skip to 6:42 for two different types of turning.
Screenshot from video
A John Deer that mows 16 feet into one windrow.
Screen shot from video
A Vogel Engineering that cuts a wide swath into three windows.
Screenshot from video when they were old enough to not have shield covering the crimper
Video of a John Deere W150 moving along at a good clip. Comments indicate it is a "MacDon" painted green. The farmer calls it a swather and it is doing canola. "The reel is turning too slow." Another comment indicates a JD W235 cuts their huge alfalfa at 19 mph. A video from the perspective of the cab.
Video of mowing, racking, round and little square baling (two guys loading (and unloading!) the wagon), and mowing.
Video of JD 660 bar rake doing oat straw for small square bales.
This is how we did it on my grandfather's farm in the 1960s. In the field the sickle would be lowered and you would cut a new swath of hay on the side while your crimped the previous swath behind you.
This is one of many photos that Barney Rosandich shared
