Hi all, I've been getting advice from this forum for a while and finally joined. I am looking for some more advice. I am taking over the family farm (50 acres of hay and 50 acres of pasture) here in south central MN where I grew up cutting with my grandpas 400 Case diesel and the 1209 John deere and baling with the 24T. We started having the neighbour bale rounds about 10 years back when my dad got too old to help with small squares. We have a 12 wheel v rake and I bought a new holland 848 baler that I fixed up. I want to upgrade my windrower to something that is matched to the V rake and right now the 9' 1209 is not as you end up dumping the two outboard windrows on the center so it won't dry. I think a 12' windrower would not only cut time of cutting but match the rake well so I could combing two into one. So here is the kicker, I really want to be able to use the old Case diesel with the new haybine and it's only got 55hp so I don't know if it would handle a NH 499 with the losses in the hydraulic drive. Is there a 12' sickle conditioner that uses a pto drive? I don't want people to try to talk me into a discbine, our fields are too bumpy to go faster than a sickle mower can go anyway and I'd rather not spend more than $6000-8000 on a haybine. I could trade the V rake in for a 10 wheel and try to combine two windrows with my 9' but then I run over both windrows. I am not attached to anything other than my grandpa's tractor and it's such a sweet tractor I hate to get equipment that relegates it to the shed. I've got a 1971 deutz 8006 with 80hp and would like to be able to have the equipment interchange with both in case one or the other goes down. I think I've said enough...thanks folks!
daniel
Lowest HP requirement 12' sickle conditioner?
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