2 basket tedder operation

steve in wi · Jul 2, 2015

I have a two basket Vermeer tedder . I,ve adjusted the tines per operator manual.My manual does not cover the two basket in reguards of driving directly over the hay or off to one side.Problem is it seems to always throw the hay off to one side more than the other. My be some one can give me their opionion of how fast they go and rpms.any advice is thankful. Happy fourth of july.

Texasmark1 · Jul 2, 2015

Mine shoots it down the middle and scatters. It's direct drive from the PTO gearbox to the basket boxes. Nothing to adjust other than replacing a bent or lost tooth tyne on mine. I'd say it would have more to do with what you drive it into, assuming your 3 pt arms have the baskets level with the terrrain. If you have a lopsided ww with more material on one side than the other then expect the result to be lopsided. What you could do in that instance is hedge over on the thick side and put more in the basket that's light.

steve in wi · Jul 2, 2015

Sorry I should have said its a two rotor,pull type tedder. not the basket tedder

Texasmark1 · Jul 3, 2015

Go to the Agri-Supply catalog or www and look at their Morra 2 basket. That's it.

Bret4207 · Jul 4, 2015

(quoted from post at 11:13:10 07/02/15) I have a two basket Vermeer tedder . I,ve adjusted the tines per operator manual.My manual does not cover the two basket in reguards of driving directly over the hay or off to one side.Problem is it seems to always throw the hay off to one side more than the other. My be some one can give me their opionion of how fast they go and rpms.any advice is thankful. Happy fourth of july.

Mine is an ancient Kuhn and throws the hay to one side or the other, I forget which. I go around the outside of the field throwing it in then reverse and do the rest of the field throwing out. Sometime I start in the center of the field and throw in.

As far as speed, mine is pretty delicate and I go as fast as seems reasonable. Depends on field and terrain. I am finally getting it through my head that I don't need to scalp the field and am leaving a good 4-5" of stubble. Much faster regrowth. That helps the tedder too because you don't need to set it so low and ground strikes are reduced. My pto rpms are as fast as needed to throw the hay well. Usually any speed I'm in is more than fast enough pto-wise for that.

Texasmark1 · Jul 7, 2015

My farming education has been 35 years studying at Hard Knocks U. Not an A student obviously. No body explained to me till a few
years ago, that in the stubble stem, are the "sugars" that promote regrowth. The one time I played with Pearl Millet they plainly said
that to get a decent regrowth you needed at least 6 INCHES of stubble.

I guess that was my coup de grace. Back when I was cutting sorghum-sudan cross crops with my JD 1209, I used the skids for height
determining devices, setting them as high as they would go. That helped establish a minimum and I guess I could have put spacers on
the hyd cylinder (funny just thought of that as I typed this) to maintain a min position, but as you said, where there was no stubble
there was stubborn regrowth.

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