What key? The old two cylinders just had a switch.
Hay and how you make it
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Rafter S
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You're probably right. That was well over 40 years ago, and my memory sometimes fails me.
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Here ..on coastal Bermuda fields it's common..
Dave
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Lots of the bigger irrigated farm areas get 4 cuttings of alfalfa. Here alfalfa gets 3 cuttings but grass generally only one. Most of that is because they are busy with alfalfa and are late getting the first off the grass. The second is too weak to cut for hay but makes pretty good fall pasture for the weaned calves.
Contact Vermeer headquarters and they will send you three manuals free of charge for your baler: parts manual, maintenance manual and operations manual. We have three Vermeer dealers within a 1.5 hour drive. The one that is at Johnson City TN has most parts available I need. I have Kubota tractors and at one time I could order most parts, but I can't find that web site anymore. I have JD tractors and some equipment and never have needed many parts, but not much luck online for me anyway. Parts are getting hard to find for a lot of equipment especially if it is older.
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Even the Newer ones are getting hard to get parts for..
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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Dairy farmers here get 3-5 cuttings, but mostly alfalfa fields.
I have 80 acres of hay ground. Getting baled as I type. I hire all the hay done. I only own the spears on my tractor. We "generally" get lots of moisture. So much, we have a difficult time making dry hay. Previously, dairies always put up haylage in bunks. Beef farms put up dry bales late June - maybe July, because we don't get 3-4 days of sunshine in a row until July.
Then --- the discovery of baleage. What a blessing. My guy had maybe the first in-line wrapper in the area. All 80 acres are wrapped in 2-4 days. This year, we are bone dry, so our fields have not produced as much as normal and has headed out sooner. Quality (protein) will be lower this year, I would guess. We will get 4-5 bales/acre. 4' x 52". 2nd cutting will be mostly dry bales including 1 or 2 wagons of small squares. Some years, we graze 30 acres 2nd cutting and 3rd.,
I have 80 acres of hay ground. Getting baled as I type. I hire all the hay done. I only own the spears on my tractor. We "generally" get lots of moisture. So much, we have a difficult time making dry hay. Previously, dairies always put up haylage in bunks. Beef farms put up dry bales late June - maybe July, because we don't get 3-4 days of sunshine in a row until July.
Then --- the discovery of baleage. What a blessing. My guy had maybe the first in-line wrapper in the area. All 80 acres are wrapped in 2-4 days. This year, we are bone dry, so our fields have not produced as much as normal and has headed out sooner. Quality (protein) will be lower this year, I would guess. We will get 4-5 bales/acre. 4' x 52". 2nd cutting will be mostly dry bales including 1 or 2 wagons of small squares. Some years, we graze 30 acres 2nd cutting and 3rd.,
Messick's is one of my go-tos. They have parts and diagrams for Kubota.
The part number doesn't do me any good if I still can't order any parts myself. I hate being indentured to a dealer.
