In this video, the second in our hay making series, I cover the basics of raking and tedding hay. I talk about the best times in the drying process to do each and the different types of rakes and tedders, along with their advantages and disadvantages. We go out to the fields to ted hay with a Farmall 504 tractor and a 2 star tedder, and rake hay with an International 656 tractor and a New Holland 258 hay rake. I also show you a pattern for raking I developed which results in straight windrows that are easy to bale.
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Great video – but 4 days of sunny weather to dry hay? That is crazy. We used to cut 12 rows each morning starting at about 9:00 with a sickle mower and crimped it with a crusher. Then Day 2 we cut another 12 rows. That same day at 11:O0 we used a side rake to rake up the hay from Day 1 cut. Then at 2:00 give or take that same day we dry chopped it or square baled it. We did this same process every day unless is rained. If we had to wait 4 days for it to dry, we never would have made any hay. Just found that really odd. And we lived in the midwest where it is not super hot like some southern states. Our hay was a mixture of alfalfa and timothy grass.
You get ten farmers in a room and you'll get eleven different answers… 😂
What is a head land?
Excellent video pete
I cut with the haybine. Then wait a day. Then I put two rows together. What a day. Fluff it up before baling the next day. Any comments?
Would you tedder again the next day or let it sit until you rake.
How do you keep an 8 wheel rake blade stay open to keep the hay from bulking up at the end .
that's grass but who wants to the yard any ways
Have you ever checked the moisture and how low should the moisture be on square bales
I never knew about tedding. I only saw side rakes rolling rows over to dry the bottom. Very informative. Thanks for all the great vids
Great series!
how fast do you drive while tedding?
what kind of equipment would work with a 1954 naa
Hey Pete, can’t tell you how helpful and enjoyable your videos have been to me! I appreciate all the hard work and attention to detail you put into them. I wanted to ask your opinion on an issue. We have a 55hp tractor, roughly 47.5 hp to the PTO and I’m wanting to invest in some hay equipment. This will be my first experience making hay. A lot of square balers recommend a minimum hp of 35. I would prefer the square baler, but I’m also looking at some of the mini round balers on the current market. Do you have any advice? Thanks
I started with your first haying video. I started playing MS Farming Simulator a couple months ago. It's getting me interested in all this yard work, windrowing, baling and harvesting and stuff like that. Thank you for showing us the real world of these processes!
7:00 this type of rake is not very popular in EU but ELHO in Finland does dual wing front mounted one you can use to rake and bale in one pass.
I came to this video with the idea of showing my husband what a hay rake looks like. He grew up on a farm, and they had a tractor with a spike and a brush hog, but I guess they never had a hay rake.
I grew up on a farm, too, with a tractor, a hay rake, a sickle mower, a brush hog, a spike, a square baler, a round baler… but I was today years old before I knew that there was a such thing as a tedder!
We were talking about this tonight because I just found out that my Dad and my brother experienced a hayfield fire and their tractor, two rakes, a mower, and a over hundred round bales burned.
I'm looking at purchasing my first hay conditioner but I see a 469 New Holland I wonder if it's able to spread the rollers apart to unclog also and are them a very good machine
I smile watching your videos. Very good explanation. I am curious as to why you don’t take your second pass back into the first. You’re having to come back and pull the unraked back into the wind row and it seems to me you’re not flipping the mowed hay but mixing it making it necessary to re-rake. Just curious and as you say, everyone takes a little different.
Ya know,,,when we were farming, I raked and baled when grandpa said so. NOW,,,I know why he kused restraint on me. Thanks,Pete.
Thanks again!
I have equipment similar in size to yours, except this will be my first year using a tedder. I like to cut four "end rows" around the perimeter of the field (just going in circles) before I cut straight rows. When I rake it, I prefer to double up everything, but I save the inner two perimeter end rows for last so I can clean up any curling tails on the straight rows.
Your awesome
Your explanation sounds like a architect explaining how the rake hay. 😂
Thanks for the knowledge. I really appreciate it.