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Southeast Wyoming | Being in debt is not a hanging offense so your neck should be fine. I've not priced either machine but I'd think it would be difficult to cash flow the extra cost of a self-propelled windrower on 400 acres of cutting. I've ran a JD1380 pivot tongue since it first came out new; ran a JD 830 self-propelled a day or two on 60 acres. The visibility was poor on the 830 - couldn't see much a head of the cutter bar; on the pivot tongue you are out ahead where you can see what is coming. With a self propelled you have an excellent view of what you just went through (but if it was bad, you all ready heard it!) Certainly a self propel would be great (especially with a cab to keep the bugs out of your face) and the view would be better on each end of the cutter bar; but, in reality, in a thick crop you can't see most hazards anyway. If money is of any concern I'd look seriously at the pivot tongue. | |
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windrower: pivot tongue or SP?
