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| We dont raise canola any more but when we did we had Macdon swather, the speed you are hearing about are on the top end. We could cut effectively at 6 mph average. We got out of canola 2 years ago, and the last swather we had was 2005 macdon. The new swathers are going to cost a pretty penny, I think around 105000 with heads, from macdon, and around 85000 from Deere. My BIL who farms alot of canoal, aroudn 4000 acres a year, just traded off their Macdon swathers for Massey's or Hesstons' they are much more reasonable price. I think he said around 60000 straight out, and most guys that are running them say they are every bit as good as the Macdons. They have a SCH sickle, and are all hydrauilc drive, that is where I would start looking if I were you, then I would go down the deere road. The Macdon are spendy
Edited by ndarbuckle 3/3/2008 14:50
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