off it without a major outlay for equipment?
A small meadow can be hayed with no more equipment than a scythe, a hand forage rake (wooden, with wood pins for teeth), and a pitchfork to gather the loose hay on a cart, pickup, or wagon. Cutting hay with a scythe takes skill: an old-timer can show you how to adjust the scythe and keep it sharp, and how to cut hay without exhausting yourself. For a slightly larger meadow, a walk-behind sickle-bar mower would do a good job of cutting hay. Some European manufacturers make small two- and four-wheeled tractors with a sickle bar cutter in front, rather than extending to the right, which makes them ideal for smaller fields. If you have too much hay for a forage rake, but not enough for a baler, you could gather loose hay with a home-built buckrake on a bucket loader or three-point hitch. Books of older farm implements can provide ideas, or you might be able to adapt an older horse- or mule-drawn dump rake by shortening the drawbar, tinkering with the hitch, and rigging a trip string that y
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