That’s awesome to know what the problem is with the random hay scattered out the side. It was driving me nuts because it was random of when it would throw the hay. Salesmen looked at me like I was crazy 😂 Good luck with haying
When you cut lodged hay do you run your skid shoes on the lowest position? Cutting some stuff that one way does a great job the other way it doesn’t look that good. Little streaky
We run skids shoes in second pin from top. I have found that those bottom 2 holes on the skid show have no effect. The cutterbar hits the ground before they do. Sometimes we will pull the pin on the top cylinder so you can tip the cutter bar. But for us even rolled hay fields I’d rather leave some stubble and loose maybe one bale per field vs swallowing rocks, breaking discs and shearing hubs. We found out today though on some stuffed that was bent over but not fully flat, run pto down to around 900 rpm and dropping a gear or 2 you will gain a couple inches of cut on lodged
Other thing this machine does, is the outside edge of the header frame really pushes a line and flattens crop. I’ve done everything I can thing of to get it to try and clean up that ribbon. Tried new blades on each end. Tried cutting drifter widths to see if the tractor side of header will clean it up but no luck
That’s awesome to know what the problem is with the random hay scattered out the side. It was driving me nuts because it was random of when it would throw the hay. Salesmen looked at me like I was crazy 😂
Good luck with haying
Sure made cutting the rest of the day more enjoyable for sure.
When you cut lodged hay do you run your skid shoes on the lowest position?
Cutting some stuff that one way does a great job the other way it doesn’t look that good. Little streaky
We run skids shoes in second pin from top. I have found that those bottom 2 holes on the skid show have no effect. The cutterbar hits the ground before they do. Sometimes we will pull the pin on the top cylinder so you can tip the cutter bar. But for us even rolled hay fields I’d rather leave some stubble and loose maybe one bale per field vs swallowing rocks, breaking discs and shearing hubs.
We found out today though on some stuffed that was bent over but not fully flat, run pto down to around 900 rpm and dropping a gear or 2 you will gain a couple inches of cut on lodged
Other thing this machine does, is the outside edge of the header frame really pushes a line and flattens crop. I’ve done everything I can thing of to get it to try and clean up that ribbon. Tried new blades on each end. Tried cutting drifter widths to see if the tractor side of header will clean it up but no luck