The Thickest Hay We’ve Got - KUHN FC 4061 TCD

hey everybody it's ryan welcome back to how farms work we've got the 4640 here and it is hooked on to the fc 4061 tcd and we're going to go mow some hay today so travis already left with the 7600 and the john deere more so we're going to be heading down there as well and mowing to help them try to mow faster so we had a mower just like this last year it's pretty much the exact same mower the difference is that this one has a impeller on it instead of a roller so using an impeller is typically better for grass which is a lot of what we do typically we do more grass than alfalfa however i did like the performance of the roller last year it's just that with all of the hay down at the valley um the impeller is more suited for grass because it's more aggressive whereas a roller is more gentler on the alfalfa it's got broad leaves on it so it's more fragile you're more likely to lose leaves with an impeller than you are with a roller but the one feature that this does have is the two speed for the conditioner which is actually pretty nice so this is a brand new mower it's never been used nice new paint underneath and we're going to take it down to the valley and start mowing so let's hop in the 4640 fuel it up and head down well this is filled in pretty good some of it with weeds but for the most part it's pretty good i just got a text from travis and he somehow got reception but he told me to go down and cut the upper bottom which he did the outside lap around so i know how far out i can go uh it's kind of dangerous to open it up so that's why you use the john deere because if something happens to it we'd much rather be our own mower but he did the outside lap and i'm gonna cut everything on the inside now so we're gonna head down into the bottom i'm not totally sure where he's at right now my guess is probably on the lower bottom which are a little bit separate because there's a wet spot like kind of like a creek in between them but we're gonna pull down there and start mowing there he is you just barely see his flashing beacon reminds me i gotta shut off the flashes on this i actually haven't even fired up this mower yet which would have been smarter to do back in the farm but i thought about it when i left it's like it'll be fine i'm sure it's fine right it's not like it's monday or anything i'm not going to adjust the mower yet i'm going to leave everything set as it is the wide angle kit on the back is set down the shrouds are actually set in a little bit i'm going to run some through and see how it does and then just go from there to just how i see fit he's planning on coming through tomorrow and tetting it out so i'm not too worried about getting it completely flat out i want to be able to dry in between the windrows a little bit so we're gonna fire this up and see how she runs yeah that's too narrow for me well that's fancy can you still run with that with the tires off i don't want you hitting the tire that's not hitting the tire it's nor close i wish i could go lighter i don't think it'd be that hard to remove i think putting them in is the worst so trying to decide if we want to take those shrouds out or not yeah we're going to take them out it's not that bad all you got to do is move the ends over to the holes and drop them out [Music] get [Music] that's actually kind of nice oh we're throwing it real wide now there's a few things that i'm noticing on this mower that they updated from the one we had last year that i really like the fact that those shrouds can be hung on the tongue is really nice and the fact that they're about i would i would honestly say that they're about half as heavy as they were last year i mean you don't struggle to pull them off like i did before last year so they definitely designed to be lighter so that you can handle them easier that's really nice it's definitely a one-person job now to be able to take those shrouds out compared to last year you can still do it one person but you really had to struggle it's doing a really nice job at cutting this i think i like this more better than the one we had last year it's basically laying it out as quiet as i'm cutting which is what we want there's a little bit of space in between the rows but just enough to let it start drying underneath but there's not any moisture underneath the grass because it's been dry looks like it's really doing really good it's cutting off the grass at a good height so i'm not worried about uh adjusting the height at all it's taking that heavier material like a jam [Music] oh man [Music] that's something [Music] so [Music] here's the windrow and there's the john deere windrow he must have found something the more didn't like my own personal guess is that he found some barbed wire and knowing from experience barbed wire is not very fun to try to fish out of a mower like this this stuff is so thick that it's wrapping around the pto on the tractor it's not because of the mower but i started to smell something funny how compacted and shredded that stuff is it's hot to the touch we got it all cleaned out now and uh i'd say that that was probably the result of that pto adapter that we've got on there that we've always had on the 46 it's never been an issue until now the stuff just might be so tall that uh even after i'm running over the window windrow it's sticking up through there and just catching behind that pto extension which you're not technically supposed to be using one of those pto adapters so even the guy said that they make them with the large thousand for a situation like this so we could have gotten one [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] him and i keep playing past the football with his knife but i thought about it i would have brought mine we just finished in the bottom now we were just talking and he's probably going to leave the field behind us until next month to let the new seating grow in a little bit but we still have this to do yet and this is a 30 acre field that one to the right is a seven acre field so he's gonna do a lap around the outside of that and then i'm gonna start doing the straight back and forth passes but it's currently 1 pm and uh using two more is really helps i mean we've had our own fair share of issues and for me it keeps quiet twirling up by the pto i think it's just because it's so thick compared to what it's been in the past it's been thick before but i don't know if i've seen it quite this thick with this tractor so all the grass is getting up underneath and sticking through by the pto and it keeps getting wrapped the mower is running really good we adjusted the conditioner down so that it was forcing a little bit more of the material through those impellers there's a handle over there on the right hand side or left side that we're looking at and uh we just dropped it down and it just will force the crop to go through those impellers a little bit more two more this field really shouldn't take that long again he's going to be using the john deere more to do a little bit more of the hillsides and the stuff that we really don't want the 46 on seven acres to go travis is already working on it let's wrap this up [Music] [Music] so [Music] everything is now cut i'm gonna head back to the farm travis is gonna be right behind me i figured i'd leave a little earlier because the 76 can go faster than the 46 can probably get back to the farm about the same time all right we just got back to the farm and uh that's a wrap for today so overall i really liked how this more spread out the hay in the windrow we took those shrouds out and hung them on the tongue i really liked that that's a really welcoming change from the model that we ran last year as well as the fact that they're pretty much like half as heavy so i really like that um the big thing that i really like about coons mowers are the quick change knives and uh they don't require any uh any electric impact or anything to take them out especially like if you have a problem in the field or you dent a blade or something all you got to do is just pull that tool off and you can change out a knife in literally like 20 seconds so we're going to use this more some more going on um we're leaving that other field down at the valley for probably next month to let that new seating grow up but uh we're gonna be spending the next week probably breaking that up down there and uh gathering those bails in so be sure to watch out for that and um yeah that's pretty much it for this video thanks for watching guys be sure to check out all of our other videos be sure to like comment and subscribe and be sure to follow us on facebook instagram twitter and snapchat all how farms work and with that i'll see you next time

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Length: 18min 8sec (1088 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 16 2021