All Types of BIG HAY MOWERS

I pick tractor power of fans in this video I'm gonna take a look at the different types of big hay mowers that are on the market today from 12 feet all the way up to 33 feet they're known as hay binds mokos wind rowers swathers and self-propelled mowers in the video we'll take a look at the different variety of machines the type of mowing that they accomplish we'll take a look at how many acres they can mow and what their price tag is so let's head out to the field so we can learn a little bit about these machines and hear and see them at work the hay bind dates back to the 1960s New Holland was one of the first manufacturers to offer a machine that not only mode but conditioned hay all in one cutting pass prior to that farms used sickled mowers and then a second pass was made with a conditioner a hey vine helps cut the hay and then also conditioned it by breaking the stems and letting moisture escape so the hay can be dried down to a certain moisture level to be chopped for cattle feed or bailed in a dryer level to be put up in the barn for feed over the winter months hey vine is a common term that describes a sickle mower and conditioner although it is a trademarked name used by New Holland many other manufacturers over the years have offered this sickle style mower conditioner and it was popular through the 1970s 80s and into the 1990s this machine today runs about twenty thousand dollars and you cover about four acres per hour this mower conditioners replaced the popularity of sickle mower conditioners in the early 2000s but they still have their place today out in the West for mowing tall grass and are also popular with horse owners for putting up low dust quality hay [Music] here we can see 13 foot wide john deere 946 moco's mowing hey these are dis mower conditioners they use a disk rather than a sickle to mow the crop these machines are being powered by 245 engine horsepower and 198 pto horsepower John Deere ate 245 our tractors the minimum PTO horsepower requirement for a 946 mochou is 115 PTO horsepower dismal air conditioners began to gain popularity in the 1980s and by the end of the 1990s they had a significant part of the hey mowing market share these machines are able to run at faster speeds over a rough terrain and through wet mowing conditions while conditioning the hay and leaving it in the wind row to be harvested either as Forge or to be bailed 13 foot wide dis mower conditioner with a center pivot hitch like the John Deere 946 mochou that we see here can cover about nine acres per hour according to John Deere calm the 946 mochou has a list price of $45,000 [Music] [Applause] here we can see a 250 horsepower New Holland 260 speed rower equipped with a 16 foot disc mower conditioner this machine is capable of mowing down about 13 acres per hour with a dismal air conditioner and can also be equipped with a hay bind sickle style mower and cover a few less acres per hour this type of mower is often referred to as a swather or wind rower and traces its roots back to the late 1950s when it was originally used to wind row small grains New Holland first introduced its speed rower line in the mid 1960s and several other manufacturers today offer this type of motor the advantage of a swather is that it is able to run down the field very quickly and then spin around like a zero-turn lawn mower at the end of the field and then make the next pass without missing a beat self propelled wind rowers and swathers have remained popular with small grain producers for over 60 years for wind rowing their crops and hay producers have enjoyed using swathers for over 50 years to produce forage and dry [Applause] [Music] [Applause] here we can see a 32 foot wide pottinger Novik at triple mower powered by a John Deere 7230 our tractor rated at 230 engine horsepower and 189 pto horsepower triple mowers began to gain popularity with dairy farmers and custom operators putting up large amounts of forage in the early 2000s the advantage of this machine is that it allows a farmer to utilize an existing tractor that is used for other jobs on the farm throughout the year it can mow a lot of hay in a hurry typically a tractor and mower setup like this will run at about 8 miles per hour and cover 28 acres per hour a pull type dis mower conditioner at 13 feet can run at about 7 miles per hour comfortably and a self-propelled wind rower can run at 9 miles per hour across the field the triple mower splits the difference between the two but it accomplishes in one pass what the other two machines would cover in three passes several farm equipment manufacturers offer triple mower setups like this for tractors typically they list for around a hundred and thirty thousand dollars and they offer a big advantage in speed and ability out in the field for farms looking to put up a lot of silage for cows [Music] [Music] here we can see a Crone Big M 450 self-propelled mower conditioner this big 449 horsepower machine can cut 33 feet of hay per pass this self-propelled mower is an industrial sized machine and in hay the name of the game is giving your crop cut and put up before the next rainstorm a chrome Big M certainly allows farmers to do that this machine can typically cover about 38 acres per hour and Kron offers an even larger mower the Big M 500 that will allow farms to cover almost 50 acres per hour a big mower like this Kron Big M comes with a price tag of three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars that's a significant investment but if you have a lot of acres that need to be mowed this type of machine definitely fits the bill [Applause] I hope you've enjoyed hearing and seeing all these big hay mowers at work out in the field and if you'd like to see more videos like this one consider subscribing a big tractor power YouTube where there's over 1,000 videos of farm machines in action if you've enjoyed the content of this video consider giving the thumbs up as it alerts other tractor fans on 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Length: 14min 13sec (853 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020