Exactly. You can go faster with a rake than with a baler in most cases, so if you can't drive fast enough to get the right strokes per bale, you have to make bigger windrows.The simplest thing to do is rake two or more rows together. I'd rather run over the field mores times with the rake than with the baler anyway. If you cannot go fast enough to get 12 to 15 flakes per bale, then the window is too thin and you have to pull more together.