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<blockquote data-quote="Train" data-source="post: 768811" data-attributes="member: 1011"><p>Iv'e cut straight alfalfa using a haybine, small swather with a crimper, and then bought a discbine. The discbine is faster, has never plugged and the blades are cheap a he!l, reversable and you can change a blade in about two minutes. Despite the heavy rubber curtain it can send a rock hurtling toward your window. Ask me how I know. Our land is very rocky so around here when you plant hay, you roll it after. The problem is those pesky gophers and then the badgers they attract. Those mounds they make when they dig contain some good sized rocks. That discbine will plow right through them but of course the rocks occasionally make their way out of the curtain. Now keep in mind I've also had a window broken when the pickup on my baler threw up a small rock from a gopher mound. What I did was make a screen for the back window and haven't had a problem since. All it is is a frame made from the lightest angle iron I could find with some mesh welded to the flat side of it. In a couple places on the inside edge I put some rubber tubing on it where it rests against the window frame and then just hang it from the window hinges with wire. This way it rests about an inch away from the glass and absorbs any shock from the odd rock it may encounter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Train, post: 768811, member: 1011"] Iv'e cut straight alfalfa using a haybine, small swather with a crimper, and then bought a discbine. The discbine is faster, has never plugged and the blades are cheap a he!l, reversable and you can change a blade in about two minutes. Despite the heavy rubber curtain it can send a rock hurtling toward your window. Ask me how I know. Our land is very rocky so around here when you plant hay, you roll it after. The problem is those pesky gophers and then the badgers they attract. Those mounds they make when they dig contain some good sized rocks. That discbine will plow right through them but of course the rocks occasionally make their way out of the curtain. Now keep in mind I've also had a window broken when the pickup on my baler threw up a small rock from a gopher mound. What I did was make a screen for the back window and haven't had a problem since. All it is is a frame made from the lightest angle iron I could find with some mesh welded to the flat side of it. In a couple places on the inside edge I put some rubber tubing on it where it rests against the window frame and then just hang it from the window hinges with wire. This way it rests about an inch away from the glass and absorbs any shock from the odd rock it may encounter. [/QUOTE]
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