Therefore, if the Windrower continuously comes into contact with more and more piles of material, it will form a continuous line of piles as it moves. No matter which part of the Windrower touches piles, they are all shifted towards the Drop Area. If two or more piles reach the Drop Area at the same time, they are merged together into a new, larger pile once they are released. Once the material reaches a designated spot (the "Drop Area"), it is released onto the ground. The largest Harvesters, however, leave such a big gap between rows that it really doesn't make sense to use a Windrower at all.Īs the Windrower moves along the ground, it grabs up any Grass, Hay, or Straw pile that it touches, and moves the pile in a given direction - typically towards the center of the machine. A very wide Windrower can combine two or more rows into a single row, reducing the number of collection passes you'll need to make. However, if the harvester is very small, the gap between one row and the next can be quite small - requiring many back-and-forth passes to collect later on. The straw from a harvester is usually very neatly arranged. Harvesters working on a Wheat or Barley field can be instructed to leave a Straw Swath behind them as they work. A Windrower pass is practically essential! Picking up after a Tedder pass is very time consuming. Tedders almost always leave messy trails behind them, as they spread out the Grass on the field in very wide trails. Windrowing these trails condenses them together, significantly reducing the number of passes you'll need to make in order to pick up all of the grass. no Hired Workers), the trails left by the mower might be squiggly or intermittent.
Furthermore, if you were mowing manually (i.e. Whether you use multiple mowing heads simultaneously or just one, the result will be many trails of grass on the field, with small gaps between them.
Mowers, when cutting grass, leave behind narrow trails of loose Grass. TOP: The Loading Wagon must make many back and forth passes to pick up the many trails left by a Mower.īOTTOM: A Windrower collects several trails into a single large one, reducing the number of Loading Wagon passes by a huge factor. Additionally, a Windrower can work with piles of material that were simply dumped out of any machine or Container. Most of these methods are organic results of using other tools to process your fields - e.g. There are several ways to create the kind of piles that a Windrower can work with. They will ignore Piles of any other material. Also, they can only work with the materials listed above (Grass, Hay, Straw). Windrowers do not change the material itself - they only rearrange it. This is where Windrowers become extremely useful. However, machines like Mowers and especially Tedders leave behind a whole mess of material, which would take many passes to pick up. A large model of Harvester creating a Straw Swath leaves it in neatly-arranged rows that won't benefit very much from Windrowing at all. Some machines, like a Universal Cutter, collect the Grass that they cut immediately into a Container, removing the need to collect them separately afterwards. Windrowing is only necessary in certain circumstances.
This makes it much easier to pick up the material using a Loading Wagon, Baler or Pickup Header. All Windrowers have a Three-point hitch at the front.Ī Windrower's job is to rearrange Piles of Grass, Hay or Straw that are lying on the ground, merging the material together into a single continuous line - a Windrow.The Khun MERGE MAXX 902 is notable in that the window output location is selectable between the center (where all other Windrowers output), at the left side, or at the right side.