New Holland 156 Test Run After Refurb


It will take a few trips around the field, but it will get the job done. Many people in the west can't see why we easterners need tedders.
 
Hey now, I'm in the west and I use a tedder rake. Have used one for the last 30 years or so. Like the way they cut my dry down time.
 
(quoted from post at 16:34:43 06/07/16) Hey now, I'm in the west and I use a tedder rake. Have used one for the last 30 years or so. Like the way they cut my dry down time.

Yes, I can see how you guys in Washington and Oregon would find them handy. In much of the west all they need to do to dry hay is to turn the irrigation off.
 
Below is a link to my oldest boy giving the New Holland 156 tedder a workout today.

I've read many times that a two basket tedder is slow - well this one is/was crooked such that one basket was a bit higher than the other - and nonadjustable. Make both baskets touch the hay and one basket is digging in the dirt! Get the lower basket out of the dirt and the higher basket is missing hay left and right. If you think a two basket tedder is slow, try essentially a one basket tedder.

To remedy this high vs low basket situation, I put the tedder on a level concrete pad and with cutoff wheel, shortened the lower side basket tines such that both baskets now sweep the ground evenly. Works great. It's amazing how this tedder now sweeps the grass in front of it evenly across it's width.

Bill
New Holland 156 Working
 
Agree with Showcrop, will take awhile but judging from the video it will get the job done! what was the issue causing the different spinner heights? Bent frame? It always somewhat surprised me to see guys with 'regular' day jobs doing farm work on the side running a two-spinner for more than a year or two. You can upgrade to a four-spinner for $1,000 or so, which in my book is one of the best $1,000 you can spend. I was 'lucky' and found a decent older four spinner and never messed with a two spinner when I was starting out. Bill, now that you have a two basket tedder, I guess your 'next job" is to keep on the lookout for a four spinner.
 
"what was the issue causing the different spinner heights? Bent frame?"

I think the legs going down to the wheels are slightly bent with respect to each other, making one side jacked up higher - probably from landing hard in a ground hog hole.

"It always somewhat surprised me to see guys with 'regular' day jobs doing farm work on the side running a two-spinner for more than a year or two."

I'm already boning up on 4 basket tedders. Not sure when or if I'll pull the trigger on one, but for sure the next tedder will be a 4 basket. However, it's good to know we now have a tedder that appears to be working great and seems to be otherwise reliable.

Because of the "day job", in-spite of our small acreage and irregular shaped fields, we want to move to a 9ft haybine, 9ft rake, 4 basket tedder and higher capacity baler (which we aquired this winter - a JD348). The goal is to get more done in the daylight hours we have after work. With my kids, the wrench turning and appreciation for older equipment has/is been a great experience, but as we upgrade our width/capacity equipment, we will also go for newer/more reliable, less knuckle busting, more time running than fixing - equipment!

Thanks,
Bill
 
Bill looks good!!! Now just slow the PTO speed down and up the ground speed. A tedder should never throw/hit the hay hard. It should lift and fluff not grab an throw.
 

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