Awhile back I asked if the neighbors 1650 gas could pull a 12ft haybine. I was told it could in a pinch. Well due to some horse trading as of late, I have acquired a 1600 gas. And fellas the pinch is on. As all you know, it has been a wet spring and I, like everybody else is behind that lives in my area. Well, it got worse, normally I mow with a IH 826, well last night, drilling beans, the fuel pump went out. So the newly acquired 1600 is gonna get put on the hay mower because it's all I have left.
rrlund
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I thought I was going to be down to using my 1550 Monday. I was cutting with the 1850 and the haybine stopped. I looked down and the PTO wasn't running. I grabbed the lever and it was engaged. I threw it back in and heard a little gear clash. CRAP! Shut the tractor off,unhooked the PTO shaft and turned it by hand on the tractor and I could feel gears grinding a little. Got to looking and the set screw on the 540/1000 shift rod was loose. I put a 3/8ths bolt in the end of it and pulled it out while I turned the shaft a little. It had jumped out of gear between 540 and 1000. Got it back into gear and tightened the set screw. It's still working. That was a relief.
All depends on what your haybine is. The older sickle and rubber roller machines (NH 495, Hesston and Deere hyro-swings) really should not be bad at all to run.
The newer discbine type machines will probably make it grunt hard at the very least and may very well stall it out. Watch your gauges!
The newer discbine type machines will probably make it grunt hard at the very least and may very well stall it out. Watch your gauges!
Missing a details details I'll make a couple suggestions anyway.
If your into heavy grass maybe pickup or adjust up your cut taking a lesser cut off the grass crowns. If your into heavy alfalfa drop a gear or two and go it slower than usual. The three quarter cut cab work out with lighter windrows ability to dry down faster.
And by all means at any sign of a plug Stop and back up a foot or so the table down. Then if need be back up some more, get off get under and enjoy the pullings. A many a time I've been able to back out of a very sticky situation.
Above all make sure all your knives are sharp. I grind mine until they break (then replace). Just grind them slowly and lightly avoiding burning the metals of the their hardness.
Hope this helps some.
We're so far behind our Michigan haying it may be December before we finish.
Fernan
If your into heavy grass maybe pickup or adjust up your cut taking a lesser cut off the grass crowns. If your into heavy alfalfa drop a gear or two and go it slower than usual. The three quarter cut cab work out with lighter windrows ability to dry down faster.
And by all means at any sign of a plug Stop and back up a foot or so the table down. Then if need be back up some more, get off get under and enjoy the pullings. A many a time I've been able to back out of a very sticky situation.
Above all make sure all your knives are sharp. I grind mine until they break (then replace). Just grind them slowly and lightly avoiding burning the metals of the their hardness.
Hope this helps some.
We're so far behind our Michigan haying it may be December before we finish.
Fernan
I ran our 14' Heston hydra-swing last year wiht ours just to see if it could be done. The biggest hang up with it is the 4' wide crimper rolls instead of full width or just much wider rolls like the newer machines have. The nice thing with a smaller tractor is that the tractor will let you know you're pushing the hay through it too fast, where as our 1855 doesn't even know it's back there and I have to listen much closer to the machine over the engine.
We normally cut with a Massey 285, and that is about the perfect size for power/weight on our haybine.
Donovan from Wisconsin
We normally cut with a Massey 285, and that is about the perfect size for power/weight on our haybine.
Donovan from Wisconsin
Slow here in NY too now. Over 6 inches of rain this month. Bought a new farm and moved in on Memorial Day. Was hot and dry up until a few days after that. Now its been rain.
This place has great hay too and a lot of it. Some of the lots have orchard grass higher than the hood on the 550 already. Need to get it down.
This place has great hay too and a lot of it. Some of the lots have orchard grass higher than the hood on the 550 already. Need to get it down.
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