What is a Kuhn HayBob?
What is a Kuhn HayBob?
The HayBob offers excellent performance in grass and delicate legume hay crops, and provides through tedding to uniformly spread wet crops for fast drying. Easily converted from tedding to raking, these machines provide gentle crop handling and produce fluffy, well-formed windrows.
What does a HayBob do?
A haybob is a tedder-rake combination that has the ability to fluff cut hay, expediting the drying process when the swath boards are spread wide open. This creates a fluffy windrow, which actually still allows for air movement and drying of the hay in anticipation of baling. All the hay tines work on centrifugal force.
What is a belt hay rake?
The Belt Rake—An Exceptional Choice for Small-Farm Hay Production. A belt rake works by moving a series of tines perpendicular to the tractor’s direction of travel, just above the ground surface. The tines are mounted to two large belts that are driven by the tractor’s PTO.
How do you use a hay Tedder?
Initial tedding should be performed after a brief wilting period following a morning cutting while the hay is still moist (two to four hours). In very damp conditions, tedding may need to be done immediately after cutting. A second pass is usually done the next day, and the hay is raked and baled that afternoon.
How do you make hay?
How Do You Make Hay? The Basics
- Hay is made by cutting high quality grass or other forages, letting it dry in the sun, then baling the dried forage for transportation and storage.
- Hay is a way to preserve some of the growth of your land from the good growing times and use it for your animals later.
What kind of rake does a Kuhn haybob use?
The KUHN HayBob 300 and 360 tedder/rake combinations are universal haymakers, ideally suited for the farm hobbyist and hay producers with small- to medium-sized operations.
How big does a haybob raking machine get?
The HAYBOB 300 model offers tedding and central swath raking with a 3 meter working width. The HAYBOB 360 offers tedding and side swath delivery raking with a working width of 3.6 meters.
How does central delivery haybob 300 Tedder rake work?
The central delivery Haybob 300 tedder-rake combination has adjustable tines that are kept in the horizontal working position by centrifugal force. The tines float through the stubble to move all the crop. To switch from tedding to raking you need to reposition the adjustable tines, swing the crop deflectors and adjust the wheels.
What can a haybob machine be used for?
The HAYBOB offers excellent performance in a wide range of crops like grass and delicate legume hay crops, and provides throrough tedding to uniformly spread wet crops for faster drying. Easily converted from tedding to raking, these machines provide gentle crop handling and produce fluffy, well-formed swaths.