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ted492

02-20-2007 21:30:54




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Has anyone ever used a hay fluffer instead of a tedder? The ones I have seen are ground driven and you straddle the windrow with the tractor and the drawn fluffer. It has a reel which turns the opposite direction of travel and gently lifts anf fluffs the windrow but leaves it laying in the same place. Do these work well and are they a gentler alternative to tedding? Do you think a guy could use one of these after a moco and not rake? What do you think? Ted.

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Loren in MN

03-02-2007 21:23:20




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
I've never seen what you are calling a fluffer, but I use a New Idea side delivery rake on rubber that says right on the frame "Rake and Tedder". When tedding or fluffing the winrow, you set the tedder to rake in reverse, which does as you decribe -gently fluffs the hay. Older New Idea siderakes also would do tedding. On some brands you had to change a steel drive wheel to make it reverse as I recall.

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barnrat

02-23-2007 12:47:01




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
I have a Pequea 900 Pto driven hay fluffer that I inherited when I bought the farm from my FIL. I grew up on a Kuhn Gyro tedder and compared to that the hay fluffer isn't worth time for dry hay. It works well for fluffing windrows of hay for silage that got rained on. I live in the North East and maybe a fluffer would work better in a dryer region of the country, but not here.



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`Bernie in MA

02-22-2007 18:02:58




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
I have a Grimm tedder (fluffer) that straddles the windrow and is ground-driven. I found that the windrow drys better if it's turned over so the overnight dampness is on top. After raking and then tedding (2 trips) for several years I made a hitch for the back of my pinwheel rake and do both with one pass.



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Hayfarmer

02-22-2007 07:38:36




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
What we call "fluffers" here are PTO driven and are used to fluff windrows so air get through. They have 2 wheels with teeth that run horizontal to ground and lift hay. Can be adjsuted so windrow stays in same place or is moved over(if ground is damp underneath) Could not be used to rake. They are ok with grass hay(we mostly grow Timothy) but knock the leaves off of alfalfa.



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Dale in IN

02-21-2007 06:44:35




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
I have used an old dull flail mower to fluff hay with. It works on the same principal only it is power take off driven. It will cut about 1 days drying time.



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MyrlfromPA

02-21-2007 04:36:38




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 Re: hay fluffer in reply to ted492, 02-20-2007 21:30:54  
My john deere fluffer will not work for rake it is ground driven but turns same direction as travel and just sorta puffs it up. I think it was made to pull behind the cycle mower to fluff it up after the tractor wheels run it down.



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