Using The New Rotary Rake - KUHN GA 4230 T

hey everybody it's ryan welcome back to how farms work so we've got the 40 20 hooked up to the ga 4230t and uh we are going to be raking the hay that dad cut down today so we went through knocked down a bunch of hay that we wanted to make uh since we have a what looks like a clear weather window and uh now it's time to go through and rake it all up because it's gonna be get as dry as it is just sitting there as it is now so today is a good time to come through break it up allow some of the wind to go through it and evaporate any moisture that's left underneath so that's why we're coming through with the rake this rake would replace the new holland bar rake that we've got it's meant to just to do one windrow and it'll fluff it up so you're going to end up with more windrows which is ideal for first crop so it's not like this rake would replace the wheel rake that we've got the rhino because that one's meant for at least frost for later crops when it doesn't matter quite as much to get it fluffed up when the crop is lighter the wind will have more of an ability to flow through it so you will be able to dry it faster so that's one of the reasons why we use a bar rake or we're using this rake for first crop especially or on thicker stuff just because we can fluff it up we can maintain twice as many windrows as we would with the rhino rig and it's going to take more time to go through and bail but it's going to allow us to get better material i think so let's get started when it was in the shed we did a quick adjustment on it so there's two different adjustments that you can do for height one is on the back which is right there that adjusts how low it goes and then there's a front adjustment which kind of acts as your pitch towards the ground so you want to do that one first to get it close to the ground and then you want to top it off by adjusting this one to where you need it to be so that it's contacting the ground at the right point to where you can just get the hay because you don't want to run into the ground and damage any of your times we've just got this little strip to do here travis is actually taking the new holland rig to do the waterways out back and then we're going to head out to where i'm going to head out to my place and break up with dad cut down that first day i just finished this first field and uh needless to say i need to do the inside windows first and then do the outside ones what i really like about this brake is that i can pick it up at the end of the windrow and as such instead of what we do with the bar rank um i tend to go a little bit slower i can actually go faster with this so i tend to run over the windows so i need to do the outside ones last so then at the end i can go around the outside and fluff those ones up because this small patch i did the outside first and i was running them over as i was doing short rows so we're gonna head out to my place now and start raking out there it's way too warm today to have doors on the 40 20. so yes i think this rotary rake's doing a pretty good job at flipping everything upside down it's throwing all the wet stuff on top this is exactly what we want to well not what we want to see but what we want to see on top of the windrow gives it a chance to really dry out it's fluffing it up nice and good i like the windrows that it makes we adjusted the cover here about halfway out maybe a little bit more makes the windrows about that wide which to me is pretty good i really like the walking tandems on this rake because it rides across the ground like a hot knife through butter uh whenever you're going especially fast those tandems take the weight from the rake and keep it from bouncing so it really does ride nice and smooth you don't get digging into the ground unless it's uneven on the very ends of the strips which is normal i think it's doing a really good job [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is actually a little alarming to me because it hasn't been this dry in a few years at least i'd say the last time this dried up was 2012 so that makes me a little concerned about how the crops are gonna perform this year i always said that on a year that's good for making hay is not good for crops and typically years that are good for crops isn't necessarily good for making hay and so far first crop on the hay is looking really good so it's gonna be an interesting year we've got plenty of raccoon tracks out here looks like they're even trying to dig to find some water i'm on the back side of this farm now this is gonna be the last strip that i do for today dad has off tomorrow so if everything looks good tomorrow the plan is to start bailing and dad and i can either one of both of us can rake while travis bales um it's probably the better way to do it and then the both of us can haul bales in it's the next day we are out here at my 11 acre field we're about to get started dad left with the 4640 and the new holland bar rake now i know the 46 looks ridiculous on the bar rake but uh there's no such thing as an overpowered tractor there's only such thing as an underpowered tractor so like i've always said overkill is underrated now uh we're out here we're gonna be working on this one dad went to a different field uh that one's smaller than this one so he's probably gonna finish there before i finish this one and he's gonna go start working on the pasture and uh we're gonna work together to try to get everything raked up as fast as we can today and that's going to be that and we're going to be ready to start bailing so let's go ahead and finish raking and call this video a wrap so dad and i just finished raking we're gonna start hauling in bales so that's gonna be our next video i moved the stop over here to kind of keep the windrow tighter and i found that i actually like it where it's at rather than extend it out that's pretty much it for this video thanks for watching be sure to check out all of our other ones be sure to like comment and subscribe and be sure to follow us on facebook instagram twitter and snapchat oh how farms work and uh dad and i are gonna start getting to work moving all these bales in anyway i'll see you next time

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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 01 2021