Here in SW Lower MI, I like to ted a few hours after mowing, spreading the windrow thin to dry, once the ground has had a few hours to dry between the windrows as well. If I mow after work, I will ted right when finished to gain the drying time overnight (hopefully) My older four basket tedder was designed with two speeds, high for spreading, low for merging. After the spread hay has time to dry on top, I merge it back into windrows, which are stood tall, and kind of serrated, like a pie crust. This low speed run is at about half throttle, higher gear. This unit also can be angled to move the windrow over a couple of feet to dry ground. If it gets rain, then back to spreading it out to dry. Many times, I am able to mow-spread- then merge and bale without raking at all. This does leave more hay ungathered than I like, especially out by the road where nosy neighbors can see, so I usually will follow the baling with the bar rake and make 4-6 windrows across the field to bale the gleanings. Waste of time and fuel, but gotta keep up the image, you know. This also helps when your baler driver is an old man who can't turn his head to watch the pickup or younger kids who haven't figured out how to get more than 50% of the corners (I am a tough critic from the wagon). When I bought my tedder from a buddy, he said the best part was no rules- ted on the diagonal, make circles, whatever you want, it will follow along just fine, you almost cannot do it wrong. It is much gentler on the leaves. Unfortunately, mine suffered a catastrophic failure of a major driveline part, so I narrowed it to two baskets- still works, but the baskets spin the wrong way for optimum results. A newer 4 basket may be in the future...covering the field in half the time is really nice in hay efforts!
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