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Re: Tedder


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Posted by modirt on May 08, 2020 at 05:53:52 from (199.187.163.74):

In Reply to: Tedder posted by Roger in Wisconsin on May 07, 2020 at 05:09:40:

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When I first discovered tedders, I was under the belief that they were likely needed as a lot of hay was now being cut with disc mowers....no conditioning......vs. something like a moco or haybine with roller conditioning to crush stems to aid in dry down. Neighbor does just that......mows with a disc mower as he claims it is so much faster. It is, but it does not condition. So to get the drying time down, they used a tedder.

I have found that with some hay types.....fine stemmed stuff, they will be as wet and green two days later as they are when cut.....so a tedder is critical to open up an spread any slugs or bunches....and in heavy hay like I sometimes have, the hay on top is crunchy dry.....hay down below is still wet and green. You can rake it, but unless it is a coarse stemmed hay like brome.......it may not dry out in the windrow......unless conditions are perfect.

A tedder changes that.

Also.......not sure if there is a "best practices" established way to ted hay. Some will mow early in the morning........then ted mid afternoon same day.......others will hit it early morning 2nd day....while dew is still on an hay is "tough" so as to retain as much leaf......which only applies to legumes like alfalfa or clover.

Either way, goal seems to be to get hay dried down ASAP after being cut......and tedder helps do that.

One guy I know said he has only used his on hay that got rained on. Helps salvage what would have been a ruined crop. Maybe if he had used it before, it might not have gotten rained on?


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