Great job...nice to see the new tedder dialed in and working well. You got a sweet machine! Going to start second cut up here after Debby rolls through.
Thanks!! I'm certainly hoping so. I've discovered a little bit of looseness on the right-hand center head/basket/star, connected to the wheelspindle (found when I jacked it up to work on swapping tires around), so we'll see how that does this season. I'm hesitant to tear into something that's working mid-season...
Sorry my english but you could weld transport wheels to that tedder back frame. use hydraulic sylinders to push those down. That way you can pull it with a truck and it also saves those small tyres pulling it with tractor. Some big harrows and seeders use that kind of system, it would be easy to make.
Thanks, that's an interesting idea! I have seen that on bigger tedders. I'm not sure I'm up for the time, money, and engineering to customize it to that extent, but I'm always a fan of thinking of ideas like that. Thanks for watching!
I recently bought a used 4 rotor Krone tedder. The tires on it were also badly weather checked. I put new 10 ply tires and wheel bearings on the transport wheels. Figured a flat during transport would be a real bummer. I hate changing those little tires. The Krone has 8 in instead of 6 in rims, but I hate them both. Enjoy your new tedder.
Wow! 10 ply sounds like the way to go - it's on my list for the off-season (I did swap one of the better ones to the inside. The other outside one looks non-original and might need a press to come off... I 100% agree on the pain of those small tires, I'll likely bite the bullet and have a tire place do it.). Thanks, and hope yours is working out well too!
Last year, after the Ag Expo in Moultrie Ga the Krone man was offering quite a deal on some equip he was showing.... we got an 8 basket Carted Tedder.... You can cover some ground especially if the tractor is guidance controlled Auto-steered
We also aqquired a 6 basket Pequea from the Case-ih dealer the year before. but had to de=engineer the Cart- caster lock assembly for trqansport posoiion.... Also changed 14 in cart wheels for 15 in..... required machining 1/2 inch from anti-wrap sheilds to accept the changed wheel rims......
Look at the safety sticker on the back of your tedder it tells you to put the kick stand down before you unhook your tedder from the tractor , just seen it in your video.
I had a 4 star kuhn tedder work very good now we have a 6 star kuhn tedder. You are missing the kick stand in the back that keeps the tedder from going backwards. Its a pipe with a round foot that you slid down inside a tube and put a big hair pin through it. Also the two bars that are sticking out on both sides of your tongue their is suppose to be a pipe sticking straight out both side for safety so you don't walk into the rotors.
Thanks! Yeah, I didn't mention in the video that I had used a very similar model when I worked at UMass, which had the proper stands. That was one thing I new when I bought it, that it lacked a rear stand and the front one wasn't original. I'll find or fabricate something - I was just surprised at how much rear tilt/weight it's carrying even in operating position. (And thanks for the tip on the missing safety bars. I will absolutely *not* be running the tedder while off of the tractor. I even go so far as to turn the tractor off or disconnect the PTO if I need to get into that area to clear hay, etc.) Thanks for watching!
I will say I am kinda of sad you did not get a pequea but a kuhn is good as well. Congrats on your new toy! We jsut picked up a new bushhog for the skid loader
Ha, thanks! This all happened so quickly - if I had more off-season time I may have been able to do more research, though I still don't think a new tedder was in the budget, and I didn't see anything Pequea that was used in my area. But you still have me intrigued about them! Thanks for watching, and congrats on the skid steer brush hog, that sounds really handy!
@@windrowfarm Thanks. Here is a link to the facebook page I posted them on. Its actually our farm facebook page I just created. facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564158687143
I've finally replaced my broken mower, and HOPEFULLY this weekend/week will offer a rain-free window to hay for the first time up here in NH. I'm curious about how you deal with chances of showers in the forecast. When do you decide to wait on mowing vs being confident you can ted enough that a bit of rain won't hurt hay on the ground?
oh, congrats! What did you get? I'm hoping for a weather shift after the rain today too - fingers crossed for tomorrow through mid-week! The risk calculus is a good question. I think I often use 30% as a guide (i.e. acceptable), and don't like to see that risk multiple times during a stretch I'm trying for. But I think it's all a factor of how much hay you have to do (for your scale - i.e. how many batches, not comparing to how much overall hay others do 🙂). I tend to compare The Weather Channel (through Weather Underground - same data but with better graphs) and weather.gov, and hope to see some consistency in the forecast rather than a lot of bobbling back and forth. And I know that rain earlier in the drying process won't hurt the hay (any or as much) as later on. But that said, I'm doing enough hay (i.e. batches, at my scale) that if I think there's a chance I can reasonably get it, I go for it. Or sometimes mow less if it feels like a real toss-up. Maybe doing a video on my thoughts on this would be helpful? Though I've also sort of developed a "gut" feeling based on what I'm seeing that I trust a lot of the time, which I know isn't helpful or easy to explain. Thanks for watching and asking!
@@windrowfarm I ended up with 3 older New Holland 477's, and a pair of older International square balers. Not the fastest or most efficient, but relatively easy to find parts for and keep running. My situation is that a lot of the older hay folks in my area are retiring (in their 80's or 90's in many cases) and the fields they had tended have been largely abandoned. They're quickly being taken over by milkweed and goldenrod and saplings, so I'm scrambling to get my own haying equipment together to keep them from going a full year of abandonment. The alternative is to brush hog all the fields, so even if I make a mess of this crop and only end up testing all my equipment to make moldy hay it's a success. Lots of little 5-acre parcels that are a few miles apart, so seeing your approach has been super helpful for me. Sorting out the equipment and the weather at the same time seems to be the biggest challenge in haymaking, so I'd absolutely appreciate a video about time management and planning.
@@365hillclimb Oh, nice! Yeah, used equipment with spare parts is definitely a solid strategy (I still do that for the most part, though don't have space for parts machines at my place, so I'm glad to hear it!) Similar story here - a lot of folks winding down on hay, fields keep becoming available, and I need to shuffle things to pick up new ones and/or see how much I can try to do in a given year. Glad you have that opportunity too! There's a lot of public good in keeping that ag land open, and I've found a lot of folks cheering me on to that end. Thanks for the nudge on video topics - I'll try to noodle on that and see if I can put some coherent thoughts together for the off-season. Glad my channel has been helpful! Sounds like our approaches and field sizes are very similar.
@@windrowfarm I'll be watching regardless of whether you follow that video direction, I'm getting incredible amounts out of your existing content as it is.
@@windrowfarm After replacing a couple bearings, tensioning everything, and adjusting the sickle bar, it ran GREAT for around 10 acres ... then the 10% chance of rain opened up for an hour just after dusk. We'll see how it dries this week and hopefully we don't get more rain before I bale it!
Probably around there. I look more at how many weeks of regrowth - I usually aim for 8, but will sometimes mow at six if it looks mowable (which is a factor of height but also thickness). Then again, I'm often just at the mercy of when I finish first cut and swing right around for second. I find beyond 8 weeks I don't get much increased yield, save for the super early fields where I do first cut in May, and the second cut regrowth seems to have a kick from the plants still having "first cut energy" (I'm making that term up). But I've had years where dryness or the calendar means I'm mowing second cut that's shorter than a foot. Thanks for watching/asking! Curious to hear your thoughts too.
@@GEisele0606 possibly on the earliest fields. All depends how the weather and calendar relate - it’ll take me some time to swing through all 53 acres of second cut, and late Sept onward becomes dicey 😅
The new Tedder looks great! Best of luck with it…👍
@@HumbleHaymakers thanks!! I’m hoping so too!
Great job...nice to see the new tedder dialed in and working well. You got a sweet machine! Going to start second cut up here after Debby rolls through.
Thanks!! I'm certainly hoping so. I've discovered a little bit of looseness on the right-hand center head/basket/star, connected to the wheelspindle (found when I jacked it up to work on swapping tires around), so we'll see how that does this season. I'm hesitant to tear into something that's working mid-season...
Sorry my english but you could weld transport wheels to that tedder back frame. use hydraulic sylinders to push those down. That way you can pull it with a truck and it also saves those small tyres pulling it with tractor. Some big harrows and seeders use that kind of system, it would be easy to make.
Thanks, that's an interesting idea! I have seen that on bigger tedders. I'm not sure I'm up for the time, money, and engineering to customize it to that extent, but I'm always a fan of thinking of ideas like that. Thanks for watching!
I recently bought a used 4 rotor Krone tedder. The tires on it were also badly weather checked. I put new 10 ply tires and wheel bearings on the transport wheels. Figured a flat during transport would be a real bummer.
I hate changing those little tires. The Krone has 8 in instead of 6 in rims, but I hate them both.
Enjoy your new tedder.
Wow! 10 ply sounds like the way to go - it's on my list for the off-season (I did swap one of the better ones to the inside. The other outside one looks non-original and might need a press to come off... I 100% agree on the pain of those small tires, I'll likely bite the bullet and have a tire place do it.). Thanks, and hope yours is working out well too!
I think that Tedder will do a much better job for you!
Thanks! I agree - just hoping there aren't quirks/kinks I missed. Always that white knuckle feeling buying used equipment, but so far so excellent 🙂
Last year, after the Ag Expo in Moultrie Ga the Krone man was offering quite a deal on some equip he was showing.... we got an 8 basket Carted Tedder.... You can cover some ground especially if the tractor is guidance controlled Auto-steered
Wow! Not many of those in these parts, but that sounds awesome
We also aqquired a 6 basket Pequea from the Case-ih dealer the year before. but had to de=engineer the Cart- caster lock assembly for trqansport posoiion.... Also changed 14 in cart wheels for 15 in..... required machining 1/2 inch from anti-wrap sheilds to accept the changed wheel rims......
Look at the safety sticker on the back of your tedder it tells you to put the kick stand down before you unhook your tedder from the tractor , just seen it in your video.
I had a 4 star kuhn tedder work very good now we have a 6 star kuhn tedder. You are missing the kick stand in the back that keeps the tedder from going backwards. Its a pipe with a round foot that you slid down inside a tube and put a big hair pin through it. Also the two bars that are sticking out on both sides of your tongue their is suppose to be a pipe sticking straight out both side for safety so you don't walk into the rotors.
Thanks! Yeah, I didn't mention in the video that I had used a very similar model when I worked at UMass, which had the proper stands. That was one thing I new when I bought it, that it lacked a rear stand and the front one wasn't original. I'll find or fabricate something - I was just surprised at how much rear tilt/weight it's carrying even in operating position. (And thanks for the tip on the missing safety bars. I will absolutely *not* be running the tedder while off of the tractor. I even go so far as to turn the tractor off or disconnect the PTO if I need to get into that area to clear hay, etc.)
Thanks for watching!
I will say I am kinda of sad you did not get a pequea but a kuhn is good as well. Congrats on your new toy! We jsut picked up a new bushhog for the skid loader
Ha, thanks! This all happened so quickly - if I had more off-season time I may have been able to do more research, though I still don't think a new tedder was in the budget, and I didn't see anything Pequea that was used in my area. But you still have me intrigued about them! Thanks for watching, and congrats on the skid steer brush hog, that sounds really handy!
@@windrowfarm Thanks. Here is a link to the facebook page I posted them on. Its actually our farm facebook page I just created. facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564158687143
I've finally replaced my broken mower, and HOPEFULLY this weekend/week will offer a rain-free window to hay for the first time up here in NH. I'm curious about how you deal with chances of showers in the forecast. When do you decide to wait on mowing vs being confident you can ted enough that a bit of rain won't hurt hay on the ground?
oh, congrats! What did you get? I'm hoping for a weather shift after the rain today too - fingers crossed for tomorrow through mid-week!
The risk calculus is a good question. I think I often use 30% as a guide (i.e. acceptable), and don't like to see that risk multiple times during a stretch I'm trying for. But I think it's all a factor of how much hay you have to do (for your scale - i.e. how many batches, not comparing to how much overall hay others do 🙂). I tend to compare The Weather Channel (through Weather Underground - same data but with better graphs) and weather.gov, and hope to see some consistency in the forecast rather than a lot of bobbling back and forth. And I know that rain earlier in the drying process won't hurt the hay (any or as much) as later on. But that said, I'm doing enough hay (i.e. batches, at my scale) that if I think there's a chance I can reasonably get it, I go for it. Or sometimes mow less if it feels like a real toss-up.
Maybe doing a video on my thoughts on this would be helpful? Though I've also sort of developed a "gut" feeling based on what I'm seeing that I trust a lot of the time, which I know isn't helpful or easy to explain.
Thanks for watching and asking!
@@windrowfarm I ended up with 3 older New Holland 477's, and a pair of older International square balers. Not the fastest or most efficient, but relatively easy to find parts for and keep running. My situation is that a lot of the older hay folks in my area are retiring (in their 80's or 90's in many cases) and the fields they had tended have been largely abandoned. They're quickly being taken over by milkweed and goldenrod and saplings, so I'm scrambling to get my own haying equipment together to keep them from going a full year of abandonment.
The alternative is to brush hog all the fields, so even if I make a mess of this crop and only end up testing all my equipment to make moldy hay it's a success. Lots of little 5-acre parcels that are a few miles apart, so seeing your approach has been super helpful for me. Sorting out the equipment and the weather at the same time seems to be the biggest challenge in haymaking, so I'd absolutely appreciate a video about time management and planning.
@@365hillclimb Oh, nice! Yeah, used equipment with spare parts is definitely a solid strategy (I still do that for the most part, though don't have space for parts machines at my place, so I'm glad to hear it!) Similar story here - a lot of folks winding down on hay, fields keep becoming available, and I need to shuffle things to pick up new ones and/or see how much I can try to do in a given year. Glad you have that opportunity too! There's a lot of public good in keeping that ag land open, and I've found a lot of folks cheering me on to that end.
Thanks for the nudge on video topics - I'll try to noodle on that and see if I can put some coherent thoughts together for the off-season. Glad my channel has been helpful! Sounds like our approaches and field sizes are very similar.
@@windrowfarm I'll be watching regardless of whether you follow that video direction, I'm getting incredible amounts out of your existing content as it is.
@@windrowfarm After replacing a couple bearings, tensioning everything, and adjusting the sickle bar, it ran GREAT for around 10 acres ... then the 10% chance of rain opened up for an hour just after dusk. We'll see how it dries this week and hopefully we don't get more rain before I bale it!
What length you cutting on 2nd cut?About a foot tall?
Probably around there. I look more at how many weeks of regrowth - I usually aim for 8, but will sometimes mow at six if it looks mowable (which is a factor of height but also thickness). Then again, I'm often just at the mercy of when I finish first cut and swing right around for second. I find beyond 8 weeks I don't get much increased yield, save for the super early fields where I do first cut in May, and the second cut regrowth seems to have a kick from the plants still having "first cut energy" (I'm making that term up). But I've had years where dryness or the calendar means I'm mowing second cut that's shorter than a foot. Thanks for watching/asking! Curious to hear your thoughts too.
@@windrowfarm you will get a third cut this year.
@@GEisele0606 possibly on the earliest fields. All depends how the weather and calendar relate - it’ll take me some time to swing through all 53 acres of second cut, and late Sept onward becomes dicey 😅
@@windrowfarm ya you get a little bit colder out there even though it's 2 hours away 😂
@@GEisele0606 yeah, funny how the micro-regions / microclimates work! I’ve tried into October before. About a 50/50 success rate 😅
you used the tedder instead of raking 3 or a dozen times is probably what helped with the cleanup
@@dallasdavis3246 hmm, I’m not sure I follow?
@@windrowfarm tedder is better than that rake you use
not a fan of that style rake especially when ground isnt flat and you have dips and humps