The noble Haybob.

[Montydog]

I’ve got an old Zweigers haybob, but I haven’t used it for a year or three. I make round bale silage and with a mower conditioner, most of the time turning it would be a waste of time (or two wastes of time if you spread it out first).

I bale n wrap for a mate that has a normal mower and a Lely 4 rotor thingy that he seems to love. He seems to spend a couple of days before baling running up and down knocking all the clover out of it and then rowing it up (‘rope-making’ we call it- most peculiar he seems to worry it sufficiently that it all knits together- at times you can see it being pulled into the baler from in front of the tractor!!)

Also( and this annoys me a bit) he gets a guy to come and row up with it, and he’s always fiddling with his phone so you get about 3/4 of the grass in one swath and 1/4 in the next. I don’t worry about making a tidgey bale to finish!

I aspire to make hay, but generally we don’t have the weather for it -rather have decent silage than rubbish hay!

since we went mostly to sheep, I must confess to liking the hay/hayledge/ silage , tedded at least the once just to get a bit drier Bales , depends on the weather obviously.
Neighbours (As did we for cattle) used to row straight from the mower and get it baled up

 

[Slackjawedyokel]

since we went mostly to sheep, I must confess to liking the hay/hayledge/ silage , tedded at least the once just to get a bit drier Bales , depends on the weather obviously.
Neighbours (As did we for cattle) used to row straight from the mower and get it baled up

The only problem I find with not having small bales is that small ones are so much handier at lambing.

 

[Montydog]

Ours are all 5’ rounds , we find it easier to buy in small bales to be honest

 

[4wd]

I didn't realise there were haybobs that seem to be fake haybobs.
Here is a photo of ours seen relaxing yesterday.

 

[opininionated]

I didn't realise there were haybobs that seem to be fake haybobs.
Here is a photo of ours seen relaxing yesterday.

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Thats a fine looking examplle, nice too see all its tines held up by springs when at rest and a fully intact PTO guard.

 

[Phil the Dill]

Thats a fine looking examplle, nice too see all its tines held up by springs when at rest and a fully intact PTO guard.

No rope through the tines though.

 

[Last-of-V8's]

No rope through the tines though.

Neighbour uses cable ties. Oh the extravagance.......

 

[Montydog]

Mine is a very humble haybob 200, but it sports a full set of springs and nylon blocks on the tines and for extravagance... a new tyre

 

[deere66]

I didn't realise there were haybobs that seem to be fake haybobs.
Here is a photo of ours seen relaxing yesterday.

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Nothing fake about that. Didn't Vicon/Greenland take over the PZ design? Far better than the Vicon/New Holland "Speedster" contraption of the '80s. (The abomination that had 1 plastic and 1 metal tine and wheels for gates)

 

[fingermouse]

At home we ran a generic version
The lely Gemini it replaced the cock pheasant that Grandad sent to the scrap man after he decided to go through a gate with a tree stump gatepost without folding it up
Possibly the best days work he ever did ?
I was still at school and only ever graduated to the wuffler in them days
Can still smell the Stockholm tar Dad lathered on the belts to stop them slipping
Didn’t progress onto a haybob proper till I left school
Nowt wrong with them grand machines in the right hands
As for swaths and modern round balers after them
What’s the problem
Weave the baler a bit

 

[Multi-power]

Only thing wrong with a proper haybob, I mean the genuine pz is the lack of working width

 

[Sawdust]

Only thing wrong with a proper haybob, I mean the genuine pz is the lack of working width

The wider you go the bigger the rotors you need, so the gearing will need to differ to accommodate bigger rotors!

 

[Multi-power]

The wider you go the bigger the rotors you need, so the gearing will need to differ to accommodate bigger rotors!

I was thinking more rotors rather than bigger

 

[deere66]

Like this

 

[Last-of-V8's]

Like this
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Wonder how long the headstock will last out ?

 

[Sawdust]

Like this
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Oh now there's a challenge!

But is it rowing 4 into 1 or 3 into two 1.5's swards?

 

[deere66]

Oh now there's a challenge!

But is it rowing 4 into 1 or 3 into two 1.5's swards?

You could do all sorts with it. Turn or row up 2 separate rows, row up 1 row or spread full width. The 2 middle rotors detach and fit on backwards to reverse direction, outside rotors always turn inwards if that makes sense

 

[deere66]

Knew I had a leaflet somewhere

 

[opininionated]

SKH, theres a name from the past. Are they still going?

 

[4wd]

SKH, theres a name from the past. Are they still going?

I found this winding up notice from 2011

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59703-1302958