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Fluffer vs. Tedder

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JeffK-MN

08-06-2006 14:51:30




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I'm going to an auction on Monday that has a JD pull-type fluffer. No model. I need to know if a fluffer will do the same job as a tedder.
I used a wheel tedder when my hay got rained on and was really happy with the results. Can anyone tell me which is better and why?
Thanks, Jeff.




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`Bernie in MA

08-07-2006 11:48:55




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 Re: Fluffer vs. Tedder in reply to JeffK-MN, 08-06-2006 14:51:30  
I have both. I use the Kuhn as soon as the dew is off from mowing the night before with the moco. After 2-3 hours I rake it with my pinwheel rake, pulling a Grimm ground-drive "fluffer" behind on a hitch I built in the back of the rake. That evening, finishing about sunset, I rake it again. Next AM after dew dries I rake/fluff it again, this time only using 2 wheels to flip the windrow. With good drying it's ready to bale early afternoon with somebody raking just ahead of the baler. If I can figure out a way to put gathering wheels on the baler I will eliminate that step.

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vally farm

08-06-2006 18:25:17




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 Re: Fluffer vs. Tedder in reply to JeffK-MN, 08-06-2006 14:51:30  
NO!!! A fluffer looks sort of like a very low bar rake, but it pulls square to the winroy. I've used two types- one was ground driven, the other PTO driven. Both were J.D.'s and they both were worthless! they work nothing like a tedder. You'd be FAR better waiting and find a tedder. This is just my experience, but I've tried everything I could think of to make them work, and They just didn't. Mike

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Rich NY

08-06-2006 18:51:41




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 Re: Fluffer vs. Tedder in reply to vally farm, 08-06-2006 18:25:17  
I've used a JD hay fluffer and I thought it worked well for something like alfalfa where you dont want to shake off the leaves. You have to go 5+ mph, no slower or it will wrap up. For rained on hay you need something like a Kuhn though. Just my 2 cents.



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oland

08-06-2006 17:04:38




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 Re: Fluffer vs. Tedder in reply to JeffK-MN, 08-06-2006 14:51:30  
As far as I know the two are the same. Some people use the term fluffer but the correst name that I have always heard was a hay tedder. Most people say they fluff the hay so they probably just use the term fluffer because that is what it does. Most all the hay tedders are very similar, having two or more rotors with tines attached. There is at least one company that makes a different type resembles the old type that was horse drawn, I thikn that it is wheel driven as opposed to pto driven. All the ones that I have seen in person are the modern pto type. I have used a Kuhn for the past twenty years and have been very happy with it. I think that most of the Deere and New Holland models are actually rebadged Kuhns, I know the Deere dealer told me the Deeres were anyway. THe Kuhn is a very well built unit that will give you many years of good service!

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