What does a hay tedder do?

It is used after cutting and before windrowing, and uses moving forks to aerate or “wuffle” the hay and thus speed up the process of hay-making. The use of a tedder allows the hay to dry (“cure”) better, which results in improved aroma and color.

Can you rake hay with a tedder?

A rake can do this. However, since a rake’s job is to put hay into windrows for baling, it simply piles the hay into swaths once again. Therefore, in moist climates, a tedder, which spreads the hay for increased sun and air exposure, is most likely a necessity.

What is a Kuhn HayBob?

The HayBob offers excellent performance in grass and delicate legume hay crops, and provides through tedding to uniformly spread wet crops for fast drying. Easily converted from tedding to raking, these machines provide gentle crop handling and produce fluffy, well-formed windrows.

Do I need to Ted hay?

It’s essential to ted hay after the first cut in the spring and the last cut in the fall due to the low angle of the sun, ground moisture and morning dew collection. Sometimes it can be skipped midsummer, but usually high summer humidity and the threat of thunderstorms make tedding necessary.

Do you Ted hay?

Simply put, tedding is the function of lifting and separating hay in order to hasten dry down time. According to Josh Vrieze, Vermeer Corporation Product Manager, speeding dry down saves time, gives hay producers greater flexibility and can result in higher quality forage.

Can you over Ted hay?

Hay mowen early in the morning can be tedded in the same afternoon as long as the mowen swath is dry on the top surface. It may require a second tedding the next day to speed up the drying process. Tedding can be used anytime during field curing, and it typically can reduce your field-curing time by up to 12 hours.

What is a belt hay rake?

A belt rake works by moving a series of tines perpendicular to the tractor’s direction of travel, just above the ground surface. The tines are mounted to two large belts that are driven by the tractor’s PTO.

What is a rotary hay rake?

KUHN rotary rakes produce fluffy, well-formed windrows to help you dry your hay faster. This allows you to harvest your crops at their peak nutritional value with less reliance on the weather. Long, flexible tines touch the crop just once, lifting and depositing it neatly into the windrow.

What’s the best way to use a haybob?

A combination of a Haybob and a fingerwheel will produce a better result. The Haybob for tedding, then maybe rowing, followed by the fingerwheel to roll the row over, and if that produces a ragged row, go through again with the Haybob set for rowing. The Haybob design tucks the hay in at the bottom, so it is easier for the baler to pick up.

Why do hay balers need a haybob machine?

The Haybob design tucks the hay in at the bottom, so it is easier for the baler to pick up. I agree with zaza about the condition of the machine being important. If it has tynes which can be adjusted for tedding or rowing, check that all can be moved to both positions. If the machine has not been stored in a shed, rust will prevent easy movement.

How does pin in top hole work on haybob?

Pin in top hole puts machine at its lowest position. Generally for tedding out/scattering the transport wheels are dropped to their lowest hole thus raising the machine off the ground, and also shortening the top link so as the machine is working ‘nose down’ with the rake wheels throwing the hay up as it leaves the machine.

Why are the rotors on a haybob at the bottom?

The Haybob design tucks the hay in at the bottom, so it is easier for the baler to pick up. Forgot to say, the early models tended to crack where the top link mast joined the cross tube on which the rotors are mounted. Check.

How do you know how a haybob works?

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Can a haybob be used as a raking machine?

The HayBob offers excellent performance in grass and delicate legume hay crops, and provides through tedding to uniformly spread wet crops for fast drying. Easily converted from tedding to raking, these machines provide gentle crop handling and produce fluffy, well-formed windrows.

Who is the current owner of the haybob?

While the most recent owner of the Haybob is French firm Kuhn, it is undoubtedly still the Haybob. There are also numerous copies of it out there, but like the original they are perhaps not as popular nowadays because as farming has evolved, wider and perhaps more efficient machines are being used to tedd out silage and hay to help dry it.

What can a haybob be used for in Ireland?

Mick’s boss, John Laffan, director of the Waterford-based firm explains: “The Haybob is still a very valuable tool, especially the further west you go. Not so much for big silage operations where bigger rakes and tedders are used nowadays, but certainly for baled silage.”