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I'm a newbie. Been hobby farmin 25 yrs and hayin bout 4. Tried sickles, bush hogs, swathers (mower conditioners) and tedders. The field where I cut grass is triangular. The sickle does not crush stems so grasses are ok, but thick stemmed forage (sudan) takes forever to cure. So I only cut grass with it. Found it clumped up and made wet spots when the rest was dry. Tedder fixed that..... scattered hay evenly all over the field. Sold the sickle and use bush hog to cut grass hay now. Sickle was too much hassle on a triangular field that had no access where you could get out of the hay to position the cutter for the next pass, and it kept getting hay hung up on it....wasted a lot of time fooling with it. Now that I sold the sickle, don't need the tedder. But tedder is nice for rained on hay. You can tedd it daily and keep it from mildewing and rotting till it's dry enough to bale. Swather. Cuts, has height control (hydraulic), crimps stems for fast curing, and has windrower. Only cut stemmy forage with it and do not tedd stemmy forage. They come with an adjustable gate on the back where you can adjust the width of the row. So what'd all that prove. Nothing. Just sharing my operation with you allowing you to make you own judgements. Mark
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