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Round balers-twine or netting?
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<blockquote data-quote="1982vett" data-source="post: 1756454" data-attributes="member: 7795"><p>Elaborate a bit on your haying operation.... </p><p></p><p>What's your equipment? Cutter and width, rake and width, baler and width. </p><p></p><p>What type forage? Is it thin or thick? </p><p></p><p>Unlike square baling where you can just rake a windrow and the baler pulls it in and evenly distributes it into the bale chamber, round baling takes a bit more intuition. If you have a 4 ft windrow and a 5 foot baler, your going to get a barrel shaped bale where the ends are "soft" and strings slip off. It's hard to get a single side delivery rake to form a windrow that will bale a roll with both sides firm just because of the way the hay flares coming off the rake. Best to use a v-rake. Then you need to make a windrow(s) fit the pickup. Each side of the rake makes a row for half of the bale width. You want them placed so weaving your path across the windrow fills the bale evenly across the pickup. However thick the hay is will dictate how close together each rake delivers it's windrow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1982vett, post: 1756454, member: 7795"] Elaborate a bit on your haying operation.... What's your equipment? Cutter and width, rake and width, baler and width. What type forage? Is it thin or thick? Unlike square baling where you can just rake a windrow and the baler pulls it in and evenly distributes it into the bale chamber, round baling takes a bit more intuition. If you have a 4 ft windrow and a 5 foot baler, your going to get a barrel shaped bale where the ends are "soft" and strings slip off. It's hard to get a single side delivery rake to form a windrow that will bale a roll with both sides firm just because of the way the hay flares coming off the rake. Best to use a v-rake. Then you need to make a windrow(s) fit the pickup. Each side of the rake makes a row for half of the bale width. You want them placed so weaving your path across the windrow fills the bale evenly across the pickup. However thick the hay is will dictate how close together each rake delivers it's windrow. [/QUOTE]
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