Need some tedding advice

draftx · May 25, 2015

Got a Pequea 710 in very good shape, all new teeth. Used it the day after cutting and then early the next day. Went to rake the hay with a NH 256 and got hay coming up green as the day it was cut. The hay would have been ready to bale except for the tedder not getting all. I used a 5 spinner disc mower so the hay is pretty flat after mowing. With a spinner type tedder is this still a problem?

tomstractorsandtoys · May 25, 2015

A spinner or rotary tedder is twice the machine as the older bar type. We cut with a discbine and set our cutterbar to leave as much stubble as possible so the cut hay is off the ground some and air can get under it. A rotary tedder does a much better job of tearing the windrow apart and spreads it very even. Tom

showcrop · May 25, 2015

Sounds like it needs to be adjusted to run lower. There should be a crank to adjust how far forward the baskets lean.

Bret4207 · May 26, 2015

What Showcrop said. You should be seeing the bare ground right under the path of the teeth. You don't have to hit dirt, but you should be moving it all and it should land in a big, airy heap. If you can't see the path of the tedder then you're going to have to stop and get off and check where you've been. Leaving a little more stubble, like 3", helps with drying too. A lot of the guys these days cut as close to dirt as they can. Not needed and recovery time for the grass is much longer.

Need some tedding advice

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