I was surprised to see a swather in this day and age.it brings back memories of swathing wheat in front of an old 6601 John Deere pull type combine on my cousin's farm.this was ack when I was just starting to work on the farm and he was my first boss.
Pretty interesting. Looks like the guy running the square baler could slow down a couple MPH though, that 348 didn't look like it was feeding that long stem stuff too well. Really cool to see that style of combine header, I'll admit I had never seen one of those before.
I didn't know Deere ever went back to making their own swathers again, in this part of the world you only see the MacDons painted green. The triple delivery header was a MacDon concept I believe, lots of the swathers from the 90's were set up for triple delivery
Great video. They do a lot of this type swathing up in western Canada. Looked like you all had a large storm moving in back behind the tractor/baler near the end of the video.
My grandad used to buy wheat straw in square bales for use as mulch for his strawberry 🍓 plants that he grew commercially in the 1960's wheat straw was used because of seasonal weed control and to prevent soil erosion due to irrigation!
We achieved the same thing by running the combine header right on the ground and disabling the straw chopper at the back. Then we raked the straw into a windrow and bailed the straw.
The difference in this method is long straw. The combine chops the straw up. Even a walker machine breaks the straw up. This merging with the stripper head on the combine and the Swather produces the longest straw possible to weave the erosion mat.
New holland 1116 swather, allen 8803 rakes, new holland 500 baler and another new holland 505 baler 1065 stackcruiser, also a new holland stack retriever as well. Love your work BTP
Great video BTP. When you went to the round bailer I looked to the background, it didn’t look good… looked like you were about to get hit with a nasty storm. When are you coming up to CNY again?
We don’t have these over in Europe, can someone explain the idea of it? Is it just the same as having a tractor with a mower and then going back over the crop with a tedder to put the crop into a line ready for the baler?
@@Ronald.Golleher nice! Thanks for the explanation 🚜🌾 I guess with the size of the fields it’s much quicker and cost efficient to do one pass in this rather than two machines and two passes
Yes you can use a swather for cutting hay like you mentioned, in western Canada we use them to cut down crops to speed up the drying and curing process due to our short harvest season. Once the grain is dried we would combine(thresh) the swaths.
Question from a non farmer! The combine cuts the heads. Then the other machine cuts the straw and lays it into two rows. Why not just use a combine harvester. I never seen this process before. Greetings from Ireland.
Typically a farm would bale right behind the combine. In this case to make the straw mats to control soil erosion long straw is needed. A combine chews the straw up too much and leaves the straw too short to weave into a mat.
Thank you for watching. There are two reasons they do not cut lower. The D636 is a ridged head. It can not flex with the contour of the field. If they go lower it will dig dirt and catch stones. They other reason the run
In italy we cut the entire crop with the combine harvester. We don't have dreaper head. It's faster but you have to pass 2 times in to the field. Hi jason great video as usual👌
Sounds like this is more for the use of the straw needing the longer less damaged straw from this process rather than having it go through the combine and be threshed and torn up. Along with the use of a draper head, less damage to the straw.
Yes it would be more efficient to cover it in one pass. We use these in western Canada to speed up the drying process of the grain due to our short growing season
@@matthewknudslien1330 do you need to dry the grain? In italy we harvest the grain with max 14% of moisture to avoid mold during the storage. But sometimes we have to dry the corn especially in autumn.
@@lucapacchiani6606 yes to dry it and help it to fully ripen. Our growing season is usually too short to allow the crop to fully ripen and dry for harvest before winter.
Soil erosion mats hold soil on a construction site from washing away. Often the mats are applied at the end of the project when grass is seeded. The mat is put over the seed to insulate it and hood the ground until the grass takes root.
Loved the windrower but to me Best part was seeing Plus2 A520RAccumulator dropping 3 bales at a time sure makes 36' of staw alot easier when collecting bales
Don't understand why combine dosnt swath the straw direct behind combine, not needing extra expense of a swather, all fuel and one extra man to operate machine. I am missing something here, am sure you will put me right.
@@andyhutch8262 I'm not saying it's a quicker process, you do have another machine involved but the higher quality straw is why they do it. Not to mention i would imagine less wear and tear on a $600k machine
@@PapaGoodTymes All is spinning at an alarming rate inside the combine, as for wear n tare, the straw will not be broken up. Broken straw through a combine makes better straw for animal bedding if it's baled with large square balers or round, this farm bales small bales that a man can lift, more time consuming work. Think we will stand to differ!
Use to have a John Deere 800 swather with a twelve foot draper head and could put on the cripper if I wanted to cut hay. Nice machine back in the day but became to small of head with newer combines that are wider and with daul wheels. Wish it would of had faster road speed and hydrostatic drive
It’s an investment in an industrial machine built to run quickly over thousands of acres. The farm mows a forage crop as well. A second crop of soybeans is planted after the straw is cut so speed is important l.
With the Mud discount it would be more like $138,000. If they lease it for 3 years but and roll it over they could sell it for $150,000. Plus 3,000 ac would be about $1million in Straw. With Prices going up I have sold 1 year old equipment for more than we paid for it. It’s a different concept but it works if you have the Capital to do it.
I was surprised to see a swather in this day and age.it brings back memories of swathing wheat in front of an old 6601 John Deere pull type combine on my cousin's farm.this was ack when I was just starting to work on the farm and he was my first boss.
Pretty interesting. Looks like the guy running the square baler could slow down a couple MPH though, that 348 didn't look like it was feeding that long stem stuff too well.
Really cool to see that style of combine header, I'll admit I had never seen one of those before.
That header for the combine is an interesting concept. I’m sure it saves on wear of the combine.
I didn't know Deere ever went back to making their own swathers again, in this part of the world you only see the MacDons painted green. The triple delivery header was a MacDon concept I believe, lots of the swathers from the 90's were set up for triple delivery
I think versatile and honeybee had a lot of those... several ways to have it discharge.
Hey, I always wonder what are swathers used for? Is it something instead of combine harvesters?
@@Rhamirezz85 They aid harvesting by speeding up the process of drying the crop down to a moisture content suitable for harvesting and storage
Another great video ! Wish we could see more filming from SSF. Thanks Jason for filming & thanks to SSF for letting you !!
I want to see how they make the straw mats next! Great look at something different.
I am working on just that. I have the combines, swathing, baling and stacking filmed. I just need to catch the mat production machine.
I would love to see that too, I have never heard of them.
Keep calm Coming Jason keep it coming thanks
Thank you for your videos mr
Thank you for watching.
@@bigtractorpower a video for the IH 4300please
Great video! Really enjoyed it
That was cool ! never saw that before!
Great video. They do a lot of this type swathing up in western Canada. Looked like you all had a large storm moving in back behind the tractor/baler near the end of the video.
Thank you for a watching. It took two visits to the farm to get it all filmed. That storm kept them from mowing and baling for 5 days.
@@bigtractorpower Was that part of the storm that is making all the news down in KY?
@@404nitro we've been hit by storms for several days all over the state, but the worst part all the flooding and deaths are in eastern KY
It's nice to see they make use of ALL the crop. Interesting video. They have a nice line of equipment too!
cool not everyday you see a swatherhead outside canada
I like Swathers. It was neat to catch up with this one.
That is really cool to separate into windrows!!
Nice video. 🚜🌾🌾💪👍👍👍
Cool to see a windrower in action😁👍
Spent many hours behind a 348 baler, pulled by a 4010 with an AM radio on the fender.
My grandad used to buy wheat straw in square bales for use as mulch for his strawberry 🍓 plants that he grew commercially in the 1960's wheat straw was used because of seasonal weed control and to prevent soil erosion due to irrigation!
We achieved the same thing by running the combine header right on the ground and disabling the straw chopper at the back. Then we raked the straw into a windrow and bailed the straw.
The difference in this method is long straw. The combine chops the straw up. Even a walker machine breaks the straw up. This merging with the stripper head on the combine and the Swather produces the longest straw possible to weave the erosion mat.
Greetings from burley idaho bigtractorpower
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Great vídeo Jason. Success always.
Thank you for watching.
Hello! That's a fine productive machine...
It was fun to film the W200M at work.
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New holland 1116 swather, allen 8803 rakes, new holland 500 baler and another new holland 505 baler 1065 stackcruiser, also a new holland stack retriever as well. Love your work BTP
Awesome line up. I would like to film a 1116 some day.
Awesome video
Great use of the whole crop
Thank you for watching. After the baling is done they no till in a second crop of soybeans.
Everything I just learned from this video, I have not known before. Wow.
Thank you for watching.
I run a New Holland HW325 with a 16' HS series haybine header for the farmers i work for. We swath Alfalfa, grass and feed sorghum.
Good video.
I'm curious as to why they dont run against the wheel tracks the first go around?
The combine makes a 32ft pass and the Swather makes a 36ft pass. The balers tines also help sweep up the compressed stems for easier cutting.
Love the videos Jason!!!! Us boys that know farming feed America!!!!!! And are not afraid of work!!!!!!
I’d be curious to see how they make the mats
Me too. I have The Who mowing, baling and stacking process filmed. I just need to get the mat production.
Very nice
Holy crap they are stacking bales by hand good lord
Great set up
It works pretty nice for moving the straw fast.
Great video BTP. When you went to the round bailer I looked to the background, it didn’t look good… looked like you were about to get hit with a nasty storm. When are you coming up to CNY again?
We don’t have these over in Europe, can someone explain the idea of it? Is it just the same as having a tractor with a mower and then going back over the crop with a tedder to put the crop into a line ready for the baler?
Yep basically that. More common probably for grass cutting for hay. Cuts and rows at the same time, easy for baling or chopping
@@Ronald.Golleher nice! Thanks for the explanation 🚜🌾 I guess with the size of the fields it’s much quicker and cost efficient to do one pass in this rather than two machines and two passes
Yes you can use a swather for cutting hay like you mentioned, in western Canada we use them to cut down crops to speed up the drying and curing process due to our short harvest season. Once the grain is dried we would combine(thresh) the swaths.
Nice
I’ve never seen a combine that just strips the heads off
Wow amazing 💯💯
Thank you for watching.
Never seen this done before. was really surprised then using the small square baker.
The 348 Baler was used just for the one field to put up a few hundred bales. The rest of the straw is round or big baled.
So I guess I missed something..what do they use the straw for again? Erosion Mats?
Question from a non farmer! The combine cuts the heads. Then the other machine cuts the straw and lays it into two rows. Why not just use a combine harvester. I never seen this process before. Greetings from Ireland.
Typically a farm would bale right behind the combine. In this case to make the straw mats to control soil erosion long straw is needed. A combine chews the straw up too much and leaves the straw too short to weave into a mat.
Viewed 5-2-22 from Illinois reason why not cutting the stubble closer to the ground ??? would get more straw !!
Thank you for watching. There are two reasons they do not cut lower. The D636 is a ridged head. It can not flex with the contour of the field. If they go lower it will dig dirt and catch stones. They other reason the run
@@bigtractorpower OK regarding a ridged header the second reason did not get posted.
In italy we cut the entire crop with the combine harvester. We don't have dreaper head. It's faster but you have to pass 2 times in to the field. Hi jason great video as usual👌
Sounds like this is more for the use of the straw needing the longer less damaged straw from this process rather than having it go through the combine and be threshed and torn up. Along with the use of a draper head, less damage to the straw.
Yes it would be more efficient to cover it in one pass. We use these in western Canada to speed up the drying process of the grain due to our short growing season
@@matthewknudslien1330 do you need to dry the grain? In italy we harvest the grain with max 14% of moisture to avoid mold during the storage. But sometimes we have to dry the corn especially in autumn.
@@lucapacchiani6606 yes to dry it and help it to fully ripen. Our growing season is usually too short to allow the crop to fully ripen and dry for harvest before winter.
@@matthewknudslien1330 is true that in Canada herbicide is used to ripe the crop? Thank you for sharing
as always... BTP rocks
Hi Jason,
Nice Video. But, please tell me, what are Soul errosion mats?
Best regards from Germany
Soil erosion mats hold soil on a construction site from washing away. Often the mats are applied at the end of the project when grass is seeded. The mat is put over the seed to insulate it and hood the ground until the grass takes root.
@@bigtractorpower
Hi Jason, thanks for the information, now I know what you mean
is this mower also suitable for mowing green mass for silage?
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Noticed the auger isn't being used. I thought the auger was on when the belts, reel & sickels are in operation.
is John Deere going back to making their own windrowers?
We run a JD W155 with a 440D to swath some Canola and seed wheat in Saskatchewan
Very cool. This farm just replaced a W150 with this W200M.
Good video, I’d like to see the erosion mats that are made from these bales. Regards from Down Under.
Thank you for watching. My plan is to film the mat production and show more of the baling operation.
The head on that swather looks like a honeybee painted green
It maybe. I will have to research that.
That is sure the hard way to pick up the bales off the field
Hard work. The bigger bales they use a bale wagon to grab them.
Loved the windrower but to me Best part was seeing Plus2 A520RAccumulator dropping 3 bales at a time sure makes 36' of staw alot easier when collecting bales
The A520RA is very cool. The farm runs a few. I have a full video on the balers planned.
@@bigtractorpower to me the accumulator makes a big difference when collecting bales when ya have less trips into the feild
@@Blackwellll3066 it’s impressive. Faster than I big Baler from what I observed.
@@bigtractorpower oh yea when ya make a bundle of 21 bales or drop 18 bales at a time or 3 big round bales at a time makes collecting alot easier
Picking up bales by hand? I did that in the 60’s! The bales weighed as much as I did.
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@@joegotz1971 that's a fake channel
Why do you buy GPC steering when you dont use it🤔
Look at how dark the shy is at 11 minutes.
That was quite a rain storm. It stopped the harvest for about 5 days.
Mowing hay in northwestern NC with a Jhon Deere 4995 995 header.
Very nice. I hope to get to film s as 4995 dome day.
Don't understand why combine dosnt swath the straw direct behind combine, not needing extra expense of a swather, all fuel and one extra man to operate machine. I am missing something here, am sure you will put me right.
Windrower makes better quality straw and combine with stripper header can go much faster in field since it's only the seed it's harvesting
@@PapaGoodTymes You forgot to add the extra time to cut and swath the straw.
@@andyhutch8262 I'm not saying it's a quicker process, you do have another machine involved but the higher quality straw is why they do it. Not to mention i would imagine less wear and tear on a $600k machine
@@PapaGoodTymes All is spinning at an alarming rate inside the combine, as for wear n tare, the straw will not be broken up. Broken straw through a combine makes better straw for animal bedding if it's baled with large square balers or round, this farm bales small bales that a man can lift, more time consuming work.
Think we will stand to differ!
Macdon!
have you seen large square balers?
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Why do some farms swath canola and others just combine it. Is there an advantage to one or the other? (We don’t get Canola in Iowa.)
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covering some ground quickly !
The W200M clears a field quickly. 👍👍
Nice #Sidhuwow_Records
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11:15 that sky don't look good for farmin
Use to have a John Deere 800 swather with a twelve foot draper head and could put on the cripper if I wanted to cut hay. Nice machine back in the day but became to small of head with newer combines that are wider and with daul wheels. Wish it would of had faster road speed and hydrostatic drive
Very cool. I think I have an 800 filmed swathing wheat ahead of a John Deere 9501 pull type combine. I am excited to share that video.
@@bigtractorpower I'd like to see that video of the JD 800 swather. I always enjoy watching your video's of farm machinery
@@bigtractorpower Gotta see that! Used to run a 800 swather as a kid.
Looks like the header on the swather is made by honey bee
Nope. It's a john deere header as what was stated in the video
Versatile 4400 with a 22ft draper
Very nice. That would be a cool Swather to film.
@@bigtractorpower we are out in MT. We are done for the year, but we will be cutting again with it next year.
Longer straws, but a loss of yield because of the big tires from the first pass...
The baler doesn’t seem to be very good, having the crop bunch at the chamber entrance, not being grabbed by the packer forks.
That’s a lot of straw going through that baler probably more than it can handle on that size wind roll
36' pull type swather
I don't see how this is affordable. At a $172,000 for a piece of machinery with basically one use.
Plus $$ for the header.
It’s an investment in an industrial machine built to run quickly over thousands of acres. The farm mows a forage crop as well. A second crop of soybeans is planted after the straw is cut so speed is important l.
With the Mud discount it would be more like $138,000. If they lease it for 3 years but and roll it over they could sell it for $150,000. Plus 3,000 ac would be about $1million in Straw. With Prices going up I have sold 1 year old equipment for more than we paid for it. It’s a different concept but it works if you have the Capital to do it.
It's a SWATHER!!
and you cut hay, not mow it!!
Too bad they can't get the wheat off first
They do harvest the wheat grain first with the Shelbourne Reynolds on the S780 combine show. It leaves the stems standing to swath.
They have $300,000 Straw Mower and Pick bales up by Hand 😳🥴🫣
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