Moisture in the windrow, green hay, will also wrap around rollers and burn out bearing. So you get to crawl in there and cut that crap out with a pocket knife. Bad way to find out the dew hasn't quite burned off yet, sets the tone for the day.
1 option everyone has missed is "bale grazing", You can google that. But if it's the last cutting, they might throw up some hot wire and move it as needed to allow livestock access to more hay.
I've never met anyone here doing it, but I used to know 1 woman in MN that did. She raised sheep, and was a pretty firm believer that anything that rusted, depreciated, she didn't want around so she never had a tractor. She trucked the hay in and had her neighbor place it in a grid around the field.
