Looking for Tedder info

[shvl73]

Anyone used a Pequea 710? I've never used an inline type, any good?

 

[flusher]

Anyone used a Pequea 710? I've never used an inline type, any good?

Sorry, I've never used one. But they go for a lot less bucks than the basket type tedders I see new or on eBay. Last month a pto-drive 710 sold on eBay for $550. Another one sold for $525 last year on eBay.

I recall seeing some antique rake/tedders that are very similar to the 710.

Looks like an easy build project. Not much to the 710----frame/hitch, pto 90-deg gear box, two shafts, two pulleys, four bearings and the 4-bar tedding frame. Or you could build the ground-drive version that's even simpler in design.

 

[Lazy J]

The Pequea 710 is more of a fluffer than a tedder. it runs along the windrow and give more volume to the windrow to allow more air to ciruculate and exposes some of the wetter hay to the sun. It won't make the windrow substantially wider, if at all which may be a big issue in heavy first cuttings.

I prefer the rotary tedders that pread the hay over a wider are to harvest the drying capabilities of the sun.

Jim

 

[shvl73]

Thanks for the input guys.
My preference is for a basket type, though I have extremely limited knowledge of any type. I've got an old Kuhn 4 basket that I've put too much into and I cannot get certain parts for it anymore. I should've quit before I put 4 new tires, tubes and teeth on it. Its tweaked somehow and the right is floating above the hay while the left is grazing the ground. Its also missing a couple arms and my dealer says they are not available anymore.
There is a 710 on e-bay right now for over $2500! There is one local to me in good shape for $900. Its been for sale for a little while, thought it could go for less, why I was considering it.
I guess I'll keep looking.

 

[Hoosier Hay Man]

Baskets are popular as you cover alot of ground quick. If your not doing alot of hay the inline will be fine. They do a better job of fluffing up the alfalfa IMO than a basket. My Kuhn will throw clumps in heavy alfalfa sometimes. A basket tedder does a good job in grass hay.

The Pequea are well built. Alot of Amish around me use them. $900 sounds like a steal, especially if it is the PTO model. Some are ground driven.

 

[deereguy]

We have both a ground driven Pequa Tedder/Fluffer (7') and a New Holland 163 4 basket tedder. I prefer the 4 basket hands down for reasons mentioned above. I had problems with the Pequa getting the "core" of the windrow dry in 1st cutting thick grass hay because it fluffs the windrow not spreads it out. 2nd/3rd/4th cutting aren't as bad with the fluffer tedder. Our cutter actually places a 7' windrow so the Pequa was very efficient and the basket tedder takes 1.5 windrows from the cutter to spread it out.