How to rake hay the 1960s way! HD

How to rake hay for alfalfa hay. June, 2013. Pulling a New Holland rake with a Ford 3000 diesel. Glenn combines two 9 foot swaths of cut alfalfa into one "windrow", a term used to describe a row of raked hay that is picked up by the baler. A windrow is a row of cut (mowed) hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mower machine or by scythe into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mowed. For small grain crops which are to be harvested, the windrow is formed by sickle bar mower or hay conditioner (haybine) which both cuts the crop and forms the windrow.Happy viewing!