Recommendations on brands of tedders?

[aczlan]

Update,
We are getting a Rossi 17' 6" hydro fold tedder from our local Kubota dealer, it is a few hundred more expensive than the one from Ebay was going to be, but they can get parts for it and my father-in-law has a good relationship with them (he has bought 2 (soon to be 3 perhaps) Kubota tractors from them as well as 2 Cub Cadet mowers and some smaller power equipment (weedeaters a tiller, chainsaw, etc). They treat him well and have always been there when needed.

Svenstrs,
I looked at our current tedder and it is ~15' wide, but we use the mo-co to make windrows, so width is not quite as important as it would be otherwise.

CCI,
On further inspection (as opposed to taking someone else's word for it) the cut width on our mo-co is 8' 8", so a 17' 6" tedder will be a perfect fit no matter how we set the windrow width.

Aaron Z

 

[HayDR]

Haybines and disc bines have the ability to pull the swath in. Also realize 3 point hay mowers without conditioners outsell pull-type mower conditioners 5 to 1 so those 3 point mowers are not windrowing the hay as much as a mower conditioner will. Grass hay is about 70% of all hay grown in the USA.

 

[lb-farmboy]

Just wanted to let you know that we own an olivi 4 basket tedder and have had it for 2 years, it performs really well, very reasonavbly priced and also all parts are available through United Farm Implement from Georgia......hope this helps!