Mx5100 anyone cut hay ?

[bucktaker]

Hello
Just wondering if any mx5100 owners have pulled a mower/conditioner (haybine) or any disc mower? I imagine a small sq baler is no problem any one do any small rounds?

I still trying to talk myself into one after working on the old MF this past week. Trying to find the right balanced tractor to do it all ....lol


Larry

 

[ford farm boy]

Yes I used my 5100 for hay this year worked great . I would like to have a 7 foot haybine but not in the cards for this year.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/212429-mx5100-haying.html

 

[slowzuki]

NH489 haybine on my L5030HSTC for a few years. Worked well.

 

[bucktaker]

was that 7 or 9 ft nh haybine?

 

[slowzuki]

9 ft'er. Fairly heavy too.

 

[bigbull338]

i know you can pull an 8ft disc cutter with a mx5100.to me that would be better than having to work on the haybine replacing guards an sections.

 

[bucktaker]

Big bull
Are you saying you have used a 8 ft disc mower? 3pt or pull type

Haybines are more popular here and cheaper than disc mowers The real farmers here use discbines but they have 150 hp tractors.

 

[bigbull338]

no i have not used it to pull an 8ft disc mower.but i had a friend of mine that knows tractors like i do an he said it would pull the 8ft disc mower.

 

[5030]

The only time a sickle bar mower conditioner becomes a PITA is when you aren't careful where you stick it (like something else).......

Like Slowzuki, I ran lots of haying equipment with my 5030, including round bailers.

Not to say that it didn't tax the 5030 because it did, but diesels work best when worked.

 

[slowzuki]

My 5030 loved the 4x4 round baler, I just hated moving so many bales and the time spent tying. I wasn't comfortable pulling wagons behind my square baler with the 5030 on my hills so I use my big tractor. If I had a bale wagon though I'd got straight back to baling with my 5030 onto the ground.