Author Topic: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions (Read 371326 times)

KST8FAN · « **Reply #2450 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:44:28 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 10:41:15 AM

Quote from: KST8FAN on April 04, 2020, 09:55:45 AM
Windrower.

Tom

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Swather

This is just me... wiki confirms Mich terminology.

Swather- lays grain on the ground to dry before combining.

Windrower- cuts hay and runs it thru rollers to break the stems and allow it to dry quicker to be baled. You can open the rollers up and it becomes a swather.

Mower/Conditioner- some marketing guys idea who probably also uses the word ensilage.

Mich are you from around Wichita? I never heard the term swather until I hung with guys from Hesston at Kstate.

Tom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swather

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michigancat · « **Reply #2451 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:51:25 PM »

I grew up close to wichita (harper county)

steve dave · « **Reply #2452 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:54:13 PM »

SW KS is for sure swather country. Though from your wiki it’s actually a windrower? wtf

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steve dave · « **Reply #2453 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:56:34 PM »

Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.

We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.

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steve dave · « **Reply #2454 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:59:24 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:56:34 PM

Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.

We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.

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michigancat · « **Reply #2455 on:** April 04, 2020, 12:59:44 PM »

also if you want to get the seed you just take off the conditioner at the back of the swather and then it doesn't smash what you're cutting. we had one of these bad boys (definitely older) but now they have one with a cab

Katpappy · « **Reply #2456 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:00:11 PM »

I'm from Trego county, and we used swather for the machine that cuts hay and windrows it. Windrower was usually a pull type that raked the hay into windrows.

michigancat · « **Reply #2457 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:01:43 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:59:24 PM

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:56:34 PM
Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.

We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.

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yes if you had one on the 3 point hitch it would bounce like crazy because you were racing. Once I had a pretty miserable day doing the boring roll over style raking when I was hungover AF. Like it was bad bad

steve dave · « **Reply #2458 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:02:55 PM »

We gotta merge these threads. I can’t deal with multiple hfiq threads going at once.

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michigancat · « **Reply #2459 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:07:08 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 01:01:43 PM

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:59:24 PM
Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 12:56:34 PM
Then sometimes I’d pull a rake over the windrows to merge them into one massive windrow. Or, I’d rake the windrow over to help it dry faster. You can rake at 20 mph. It’s like F1 tractor racing.

We had PTO powered rakes that spun like mothers. Also the giant wheel ones that just used some sort of physics to spin and rake that windrow. Wild stuff.

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yes if you had one on the 3 point hitch it would bounce like crazy because you were racing. Once I had a pretty miserable day doing the boring roll over style raking when I was hungover AF. Like it was bad bad

so this was significant because hay farming got the b-team tractors while the plow farming got the a-team tractors. like I had to do this raking in a little ass Case tractor with no cab (like the yellow case style) and a metal seat and it was smaller than the 4020. it sucked so hard.

but man oh man when I got the 8760 with the good radio and super cool blast AC?

Spracne · « **Reply #2460 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:07:53 PM »

Be the rake you want in the world

DaBigTrain · « **Reply #2461 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:12:21 PM »

Quote from: Spracne on April 04, 2020, 12:15:01 PM

Quote from: Katpappy on April 04, 2020, 12:10:39 PM
BTY(ByTheWay)

Literally lol’d at this

KST8FAN · « **Reply #2462 on:** April 04, 2020, 01:27:13 PM »

The neighbor farmer we hayed with bought one of these in the 70s. A joy stick controlled Hesston with a crazy wheel on the back. It was like a big ZTR mower 20 years before those were a thing. Bouncy and jekry AF though.

SD- 3 pt mounted, pto driven Ford hay rake on the back of the 4020. That was the crap... one of the few mundane field tasks that was mindless fun.

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steve dave · « **Reply #2463 on:** April 04, 2020, 02:04:00 PM »

I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor. The idea of doing that hungover breathing in alfalfa dust in what I assume was 100 degree temps is terrifying.

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star seed 7 · « **Reply #2464 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:01:00 PM »

What is a wind row?

michigancat · « **Reply #2465 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:03:00 PM »

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What is a wind row?

It's when you chop up all the hay and grass like twenty feet wide and put it in a little row like four feet wide so it's easy to pick up and bale. The little row is a windrow

Spracne · « **Reply #2466 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:04:56 PM »

Quote from: michigancat on April 04, 2020, 04:03:00 PM

Quote from: Libdork.9 rolled back from 1.0 on April 04, 2020, 04:01:00 PM
What is a wind row?
It's when you chop up all the hay and grass like twenty feet wide and put it in a little row like four feet wide so it's easy to pick up and bale. The little row is a windrow

Does it block the wind?

star seed 7 · « **Reply #2467 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:07:23 PM »

Yeah that part is confusing me, why isn't it just a hay row

Spracne · « **Reply #2468 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:09:09 PM »

Quote from: Libdork.9 rolled back from 1.0 on April 04, 2020, 04:07:23 PM

Yeah that part is confusing me, why isn't it just a hay row

Maybe back in the day the un-rowed hay would get blown by the wind into a natural row. Kinda like a snowdrift?

michigancat · « **Reply #2469 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:12:45 PM »

I think it's because it is dried by the wind

star seed 7 · « **Reply #2470 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:14:30 PM »

Well that makes pretty good sense, thanks kRusty

sys · « **Reply #2471 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:16:38 PM »

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a long line of raked hay or sheaves of grain laid out to dry in the wind.
North American

a long line of material heaped up by the wind or by a machine.
"the surface of the water was streaked with windrows of scud"

look at rusty being north american.

Spracne · « **Reply #2472 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:22:05 PM »

Quote from: sys on April 04, 2020, 04:16:38 PM

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a long line of raked hay or sheaves of grain laid out to dry in the wind.
North American

a long line of material heaped up by the wind or by a machine.
"the surface of the water was streaked with windrows of scud"

look at rusty being north american.

Huh. I guess I'm more continental.

sys · « **Reply #2473 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:22:49 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 02:04:00 PM

I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor.

holy crap. i'm two generations removed from farming and i spent a crap load of time (not really, but still a lot for a mhk townie) on open cab tractors.

never seen the inside of a farm machine cab, actually.

michigancat · « **Reply #2474 on:** April 04, 2020, 04:39:36 PM »

Quote from: sys on April 04, 2020, 04:22:49 PM

Quote from: steve dave on April 04, 2020, 02:04:00 PM
I have never ridden on or driven an open cab tractor.

holy crap. i'm two generations removed from farming and i spent a crap load of time (not really, but still a lot for a mhk townie) on open cab tractors.

never seen the inside of a farm machine cab, actually.

Not even at a county fair? My favorite thing at country fairs was going up into the new tractors and pretending to drive them