Rotary Hay Tedders

I just bought a Marra 2 blade 3pt tedder from Agri Supply (ASC) and it came unassembled (on a skid) with no directions and no assembly guide.

Through trial and error have found several parts missing and may be facing some factory/dealer installed backwards. A call to ASC received prompt response on the parts missing and damaged by sitting out in the rain (so called sealed wheel bearings).

Hooked it to a 3 pt 30 hp tractor yesterday, and the tires stick down much farther than the tynes, so much in fact, that I am assuming that the "landing gear" was installed backwards.

To get any ground contact by the tynes, the 3 pt has to be let way down and when that is done, it only tedders about a 2 ft wide strip and it is 9 ft wide. the rear is really in the air. The height of the landing gears is not continuously variable as is done with higher priced units.

One last thing. If used as a rake vs a tedder, is there a difference in the ground clearance (height) and tilt?

Sharing your expertise with me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

Thanks again for your help,

Mark

Make sure the wheel axles are inclined forward like the picture. If they are inclined backward the tedder will not work properly.

My wheels are angled to the rear (opposite the pic) and the unit is positioned butt up just like the picture. The pipes supporting the wheels are kinda offset then do a curve thing so that the wheel is actually directly below the hub. If I turned them around, it looks like the wheel would still be directly beneath the hub but the distanct to the ground may be shorter and this is what I think I want....but don't know. Is the picture of a tedder ready to shuffle? It just seems like you have a lot of wasted stirring capability that isn't contacting anything.

Thanks,

Mark

Last night I cut the wheels off my "brand new tedder" with my torch. Tedds like one would think. Nice and flat and reasonably wide. I am going to shorten them and reinstall and I think it will work better. They were just too long.

Thanks,

Mark

Last night I cut the wheels off my "brand new tedder" with my torch. Tedds like one would think. Nice and flat and reasonably wide. I am going to shorten them and reinstall and I think it will work better. They were just too long.

Thanks,

Mark

You are correct about the third member adjusting the frontal contact height. My problem is that I think the wheels are too low as compared to the teddder tynes and tedders only contact hay in the front in an area about as wide as the wheels are apart (2-3 ft for a 9ft teddy). Seems a waste. Now if I were making a windrow, and had a big one going, then maybe the sides would get in on the action.

I use a Ford 515 sickle mower for horse hay and the deflector on the end makes a thick wad that takes much longer than the rest to cure; especially where I have to turn back about 270 degrees on a triangular field.

The idea of the teddy was to come back and scatter everything evenly after cutting....job for a neighbor high school boy to give him some summer spending money.....keep him out of trouble.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark