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Post by putsie on Feb 7, 2011 12:31:44 GMT -5
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Post by treymo on Feb 7, 2011 15:26:21 GMT -5
That's a sweet looking pulltype swather. Never seen on like that. Great Pics!
Trey
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Post by steiger9330 on Feb 7, 2011 16:24:09 GMT -5
I love that pull type swather.
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Post by ManitobanFarmerKid on Feb 7, 2011 16:30:26 GMT -5
Those swathers are awsome!! The only thing abuot them is that they are very heavy once they get bigger then 25ft or 30ft.
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Post by Quinton DeDecker on Feb 7, 2011 18:15:00 GMT -5
wow that swather is huge, that is an awsome set up, nice pics
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Post by putsie on Feb 8, 2011 10:58:41 GMT -5
That swather is a John Deere 590, 36 ft. They were built by Kilberry/MacDon and they are everywhere up here in all kinds of colors and names. I used to swath with a 970 Case and a CaseIH 730 30ft model for my dad and uncle as a teenager. It was identical to this Deere-labeled one. This past year we bought (and sold) a black Macdon pt 30ft with a pickup reel for swathing canola, again other than a few upgrades related to the newer model year it's identical. Wound swathing 600 acres and then selling it. Found a good deal on a Macdon M150 self-propelled with a D-60 header (35ft).
They are a heavy swather in 36ft length. To long for how they're designed in my opinion, the 30ft was ideal for the design. There's a lot of 36's with welded up and braced frames (including this one). One of my best friends has a 50' duplex swather of this same model and style. Only built for IH/CIH, his farm's gone through 2 of them over the last 15-20 years. They're a pair of 25 ft's joined up (back swather is hydraulic driven) and can lay 2 swaths or 1 massive swath.
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Post by ManitobanFarmerKid on Feb 8, 2011 19:28:37 GMT -5
Yeah, my cousin lives just south of Swift Current and they farm he lives on had an 80ft. They had two 40fts joined together in the same way, when they went to the field the hitbh connecting them bent and evetnually snapped.
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