Tedding Hay | The Wobble 

400 children and a crop in the field

@@budteufer1818, Lol. I think it was 4 hungry children ? 400 sounds better though !!

@@augustreil Good grief must be Amish LOL:) OL J R :)

@@lukestrawwalker, Ha !!

I know we'd all love a shop and I'm sure there will come a time where we do that!

@@HowFarmsWork It's AMAZING how much more work you can get done working on concrete... worked on dirt and gravel for YEARS but finally poured a 24x24 slab and put a big tall carport over it for a "farm shop"... tools still in the garage beside it but STILL, just being able to work on stuff and not have bits go missing in the grass or dirt... it's huge, and didn't cost a fortune... Even if you guys just concreted THAT END of your shop directly behind the door, it'd be huge... Just sayin' know you got plenty of places for your money to go on the farm, never any shortage there believe me I know... Later and take it easy! OL J R :)

Thanks!

It’s definitely not his first rodeo

Agree. We also will pull the seals off with a dental pick, repack them, then push the seals back on. Works great.

@@augustreil I had a guy who's daughter raced small engine dragsters. Single piston lawnmower engines powering them and they had a special procedure to make them a bit faster. They would remove the seals and clean out the grease with brake clean. Then they would coat the bearings in fluid film and reassemble them. Apparently the resistance from the grease slows them down.

@@FoolOfATuque, Wow, I cannot believe you just said that. We used to grass drag snowmobiles and one of the first things we did was to replace the oil in the chain drive with tranny fluid and any other thing we could with a lighter, thinner oil, including bearings with oil instead of grease. It makes a huge difference in racing, just have to keep up the maintenance a little more. Thanks !

@@augustreil yeah with those lawnmower engines you have to squeeze everything you can out of them. Lol!

James you are the not norm, a parts man that can come up with a part without a part number you are the few who can measure and think on the run, A true dying breed , of a good kind!

True, but when a ball bearing in a wheel is ready to quit, not much you can do about that LOL:) Tapered roller bearing hubs, check 'em for sure for end play! Later! OL J R :)

Yup, Ebay is real good.

If i ever work open control tractor again, itll be double what i expect. I gone cab and never again in 110°F heat.

Thanks for stopping in!

Or an industrial bearing house, if you have one close by.

Very true, but I have arrangements.

How Farms Work cause it’s technically not your Tedder

@@jeremyfreeman717 Yes sir.

How Farms Work I was making a general statement about dealer parts. Any of your corn come back

Thanks for being a long-time viewer!

My brother has a wider tedder with six rakes that you can reverse the gears and it rakes the hay back into windrows for baling. What's nice is it doesn't need a larger tractor, he uses a 40-hp utility tractor instead of his larger row-crop tractor...the ride's a little easier in the lighter machine.

Given the vandalism and stuff that happened to their farm, and covid, I can't see them having another farm day again.

@@0xFF48 Really? Vandalism? Did they talk about that in a video? I must have missed it. What happened?

@@matthewrenshaw not in this video, after their last farm day I remember he discussed the vandalism in vague terms and how they had to add more security cameras.

I think another Farm Day is possible, but with COVID, I felt it was best to postpone this year's farm day.

I have a Phantom 4 Pro!

Good to hear it! I just posted another video of merging!

Just got it set up about two weeks ago, filled it with creep feed and they've started to eat away at it. I think it helps bulk them up before the winter.

Like I always say, overkill is underrated!

A guy can't afford to keep a tractor around tailored to the size and HP you need for every piddling job around the farm or you'd have 200 tractors LOL:) Later! OL J R :)

Thought i was the only one on that.

I'm just waiting for the inappropriately intrusive questions like, when are you getting married? When are you having kids.

He just posted a picture of him and her on Snapchat yesterday

If I remember correctly she is going to college

You see a lot of tedders with a width at about 10 m or 30 ft here in Holland,

Oh, there's plenty of 8 wheel or even bigger tedders around, but this is what the company sent them to demo... Later! OL J R :)

luke strawwalker that relic was no demo it’s ancient

@@timothybailey7118 have you watched their channel at all?? He got that tedder, a big Rhino wheel rake, and the big Earth master "VT" disk as part of a "demo deal" a few years ago from Rhino ag... They also got the batwing shredder and tried an offset fenceline/ ditch bank shredder as well and a 3 point grader blade too. That's practically a new tedder but they've used it a couple three seasons now... Dunno what your talking about "relic" LOL... OL J R

cover ground faster that's for sure... but the bigger the tedder the more expensive they are, too. This one is a demo unit anyway, part of that Rhino ag deal he's got with the company. Not sure if he bought it or not, not my business LOL:) Anyway, yeah a little bigger tedder would speed things up for sure, and be a better use of fuel and time. I noticed in the video too that this one is just a WEE bit too small for catching two windrows out of that Kuhn mo-co... with the wider cutting width they're just a little too far apart for the outer baskets of the tedder to be able to get the ENTIRE windrow by the looks of it... Later! OL J R :)

Depending on the hay and the weather........yes.

Depends on the crop and weather like Heartwood Farms said... A lot depends on the area. Here in SE TX we can cut thick grass hay one day, rake about 24 hours later at 50% moisture and bale about 24 hours after that at ~12% -15% moisture or so... No tedding is required. Get into making early spring or late fall hay, though, and you better have a tedder available. Most of the guys here use just 3 point disk mowers, no conditioners, but for some crops like sorghum-sudan, a conditioner makes a huge difference. Everybody here rakes, but most don't do it right (run the rake right ahead of the baler, which puts sunburned, sun-bleached over-dry hay in the windrow and crushes a lot of leaves off of it in the process, even in grass hay, and a lot of guys bale too dry and thus you'll see a baler running and leaves and chaff just POURING out the back because it's crushing all the leaves off of it as it's baling and dumping them on the ground as chaff and dust. Most of the BTO's will cut hay and leave it flat on the ground for 5 day to a week and then rake right ahead of the baler when it's crispy and crunchy and they hay is roasted beyond recognition... Basically they can take "fertilized bermudagrass" in its prime and turn it into something about as nutritious as wheat straw... Later! OL J R :)

The tedder has hydraulic sag that leads to bouncing which causes the teeth hitting the ground too often or not tedding the hay at all.

It's about 25-30 minutes!

@@HowFarmsWork How'd you learn to fly it so well?? I'd love to get one but that's the part that would scare me LOL:) OL J R :)

Yea, it seems like a lot of tractor for that task. But then, what do I know?

@@Cinder2008 Its the smallest tractor with an air conditioned cab.

A 30 horse tractor would walk right off with that tedder, never know it was back there... BUT they don't have a 30 horsepower tractor, so they use what they got... It's about like saying "how come you're driving a 4 door SUV when you're by yourself-- why don't you drive a Smart Car instead?? Probly because you DO own the SUV but you DON'T own a 2 seater Smart car... OR, "Why are you driving an SUV instead of driving a small car... both have four doors!" Same thing applies... Later! OL J R :)

Behind some how much I dunno... he said that when the derecho storm hit he kinda dropped everything he WAS doing for vids in favor of doing some videos about the storm damage and stuff... so just now getting back to it gotta catch up. OL J R :)