MossflowerWoods
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- Kioti DK50SE HST w/FEL, Gravely 60" ZTR Mower. Stihl MS290 (selling), CS261, & FS190 + Echo CS400 & 2010 F-350 6.4 PSD snowplow truck
FE, wow....very nice. Where is the tedder?
My next pruchase is a V rake & larger tedder.
Well it was 6,000 and I didnt see getting 6,000 use out of it Question is it really needed,I know if hay gets wet they are nice but under normal conditions,is the extra tedder pass worth it?
Thanks everyone:thumbsup:
I always cut with a Krone when growing up,but I heard lots of good things about the Vicon and with the 3 blade disc,I can run a wider cut.
I didn't check, but you must be quoting list price on all this stuff? That is probably a smart idea, as there is no sense getting folks upset about their recent deals.
How wide a cut does your model Vicon make?
As for a tedder needed, it has to be based on the purpose of the hay, the type, height, and thickness of the crop as well as the weatherman.
Up here, getting 4 hot, dry, low humidity days in a row when the hay is prime
is a rarity, so a tedder becomes the most important piece of hay equipment.
Sometimes the dew is so heavy that tedding is a necessary part of the cycle.
It is also not unheard of to get some clumping of the cut regardless of the type of equipment used so a tedder gets rid of the problem of having a clump of wet hay windrowed and rolled into the bale.
I was wondering if your new baler is also set up to wind string around the rolls
or is your only option to use the netting for all rolls?
Ron
. . . As for a tedder needed, it has to be based on the purpose of the hay, the type, height, and thickness of the crop as well as the weatherman.
Up here, getting 4 hot, dry, low humidity days in a row when the hay is prime
is a rarity, so a tedder becomes the most important piece of hay equipment. . .
Ron,
Very, very few people own a tedder here. About the only time it will be used is when we get a rain on cured hay that was just about ready to bale. If it rains on freshly cut grass, we don't even worry about it. It will dry a day or so.
In our part of the world, if rain doesn't interfere, you can cut your hay, let it lay the next day, and bale it the day after that. You can usually start raking by noon, if not before. Last summer, it was so hot and dry that many fields were cut one day and baled the next.
If we let our hay cure for 4 days, it would look like broom straw.
I didn't check, but you must be quoting list price on all this stuff? That is probably a smart idea, as there is no sense getting folks upset about their recent deals.
How wide a cut does your model Vicon make?
As for a tedder needed, it has to be based on the purpose of the hay, the type, height, and thickness of the crop as well as the weatherman.
Up here, getting 4 hot, dry, low humidity days in a row when the hay is prime
is a rarity, so a tedder becomes the most important piece of hay equipment.
Sometimes the dew is so heavy that tedding is a necessary part of the cycle.
It is also not unheard of to get some clumping of the cut regardless of the type of equipment used so a tedder gets rid of the problem of having a clump of wet hay windrowed and rolled into the bale.
I was wondering if your new baler is also set up to wind string around the rolls
or is your only option to use the netting for all rolls?
Ron