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KS/ NENE | How wide are your windrows? Or are you raking bar cut hay? How much alfalfa makes up your hay mix? What kind of features and price are you looking for? We run a Darf 1017 and love it, we use an old H&S Hi-Cap when we get behind also. Most of our fields are probably similar to your "beach" sand. The Darf does very well at picking up the hay and leaving the sand, the horizontal angle that the wheels run at do a nice job of getting under the hay at the edge of the windrow, but not flipping up sand into the windrow. It also works very well when we get rained on hay to get under and not leave any. We also like the rubber mounted tines vs the steel spring tines of our H&S. It took a little setup time, but once its dialed in, its great. We do like how much adjustment it has if we do need to fine tune for a certain cutting or crop condition. The control box takes a little getting used to, but not horrible. It is nice to run everything hydraulically and never have to get out to swing or lock the wings for single windrow pickup. The only down side for us is they are not cheap. H&S, Rowse, and Golden Eagle all make a copy, but after demoing them, we chose to spend the extra and get the Darf. We pickup 16' windrows that are laid 8' wide in alfalfa that ranges in that .75-2 TPA. | |
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