muckymanor
Well-Known Member
But it's extra cost compared to been able to just go out and pick it up out of the conditioned row the next day without doing anything more to the grass. I wouldn't rake up unconditioned grass without tedding it out first so now I have the extra cost of tedding and then I have to pay to get it raked back into a row. So if my conditioner mower broke down and the only man available came to mow with a non conditioner mower it would cost me double the money because the contractor didn't have a conditioner on his mower. If that happened I wouldn't be a happy man.
I find the replies on this forum comical at times. It's always a popular topic tedding and raking silage and then members turn around then and say that there's not enough money out of the job. If that the case why do lads be at it so?
If I was the op I would be getting into the car and calling around to his potential future customers and hearing their thoughts.
I get your point. I suppose I was saying that a lot of contractors these days rake 2 or 3 rows into 1 in order to speed up baling. Certainly around here that's what contractors are doing. There is no advantage to them spending extra on a conditioner or extra on diesel to work it. You pay the baler man by the bale regardless of whether it's raked to 27 ft or 30ft or baled from a conditioner row. Maybe it's different in other parts of the country?