What's the best tedder

[Agri spec]

Hi lads thinking of buying a new 6 rotor tedder this year but can't make my mind up on which make to go for has anyone on here experience with the Malone 840 6 rotor, all opinions very welcome on all makes thanks in advance

 

[Elpresidente]

Lely end of thread

 

[DaveJ]

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Seconded

 

[case cx 130b]

Same lely nothing else even comes near

 

[ewald]

Just buy three Haybobs - you know it makes sense....

 

[Spencer]

Why are the tines on both tedders in both photos completely wrapped up with grass?

 

[Accidental_Farmer]

Why are the tines on both tedders in both photos completely wrapped up with grass?

Glad somebody asked that! Mine started to do this last summer and I'm not sure why. Too slow, wrong angle?

 

[Two Tone]

Why are the tines on both tedders in both photos completely wrapped up with grass?

Try clicking on both of those photos to expand them and you will see that the hook ends of the tines are not wrapped up with grass. The secret to these machines is the angle of those tines. Where the grass is wrapped has no consequence as to tedding action. As the grass dries, this wrapping will reduce on the next pass.

There is no comparison with any other make as to the quality of the tedding with the Lely. They are the best and a God-send!

Here is ours at work

 

[hendrebc]

Ive heard that lely are good tedders too but just so someone says something that isnt just buy a lely ill say ihave a kuhn 4 rotor and that works really well. Next door have a massive pottinger and that works well, my cousin had a krone 6 rotor and that works well too. I also have a haybob thats handy sometimes
I think the weather will make more difference than your choice of tedder tbh

 

[Spencer]

Try clicking on both of those photos to expand them and you will see that the hook ends of the tines are not wrapped up with grass. The secret to these machines is the angle of those tines. Where the grass is wrapped has no consequence as to tedding action. As the grass dries, this wrapping will reduce on the next pass.

There is no comparison with any other make as to the quality of the tedding with the Lely. They are the best and a God-send!

Here is ours at work
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Well we use a green coloured one.. doesn’t wrap up with grass and teds grass out as in your picture.

If Lely are the best, then I suppose there’s a first for everything.. Because it surely isn’t a brand synonymous with the best built and most durable of machines..

 

[Two Tone]

Well we use a green coloured one.. doesn’t wrap up with grass and teds grass out as in your picture.

If Lely are the best, then I suppose there’s a first for everything.. Because it surely isn’t a brand synonymous with the best built and most durable of machines..

Each to their own I suppose. I also have a green one and have to admit that it is good. But have to say that I prefer the Lely for lump free tedding. It is the angle that the tines are mounted that seem to do the trick for us.

It also has the advantage that you can put the tines in their other position and create 3 windrows if it turns wet. Let the ground between the windrows dry, move them across then ted it all out again once all the lad is dry again. My green one won't do that.

 

[Agri spec]

Thanks very much for all the responses its interesting to read all the different opinions, the lely were the very last machine I looked at because lely were always known to be soft but the more I'm hearing about them I seem to be leaning more towards one, I'm being told that krone and Kuhn break alot of tines due to the way they flex in comparison with the lely that the hook tine flexes the opposite way and that you will never break one, not sure how true or not that is but I suppose alot is probably to do with the operator and the way the machine is set up

 

[Boohoo]

Now that we've established that Lely is the best, has anyone any views on the Lely 460? It's bound to be a good upgrade from our current haybob and I like the idea of small diameter rotors because we try to make hay and haylage.

 

[Elpresidente]

Thanks very much for all the responses its interesting to read all the different opinions, the lely were the very last machine I looked at because lely were always known to be soft but the more I'm hearing about them I seem to be leaning more towards one, I'm being told that krone and Kuhn break alot of tines due to the way they flex in comparison with the lely that the hook tine flexes the opposite way and that you will never break one, not sure how true or not that is but I suppose alot is probably to do with the operator and the way the machine is set up

Lely times do break eventually but not until they've done 4 or 5 seasons when metal fatigue begins to set in.

 

[Agri spec]

Lely times do break eventually but not until they've done 4 or 5 seasons when metal fatigue begins to set in.

Ya you wouldn' begrudge them that if they would last that long I spoke to one man who had a krone and he said it was there biggest downfall having to replace tines regularly

 

[e3120]

I do hope you're all correct - after previous threads, I've ordered a Lely to replace a Krone that ate a lot of tines on limited acres and had a habit of leaving in rows; admittedly it was a 6.72 that was stretching to catch 3 x 10ft.

I understand that it's doubtful if there will be any more made, so if disappointed, I will stay schtum and put on here for a premium

 

[hendrebc]

My kuhn is a 2003 built done at least 60 acres of hay/haylege a year and have never broken a tine

 

[Pan mixer]

I have had a Lely combi 6 (4 rotors) for 16 years, sold the first after 12 years and bought another.

I do about 2000 acres of tedding per year with it.

I have broken 2 tines in all of that time - both at the same moment when I hit a bank on the road as I was too lazy to put the tines into row-up position as I went between fields and I met a lorry.

 

[juke]

Everyone round here runs claas or krone tedders , the majority being claas, never seen a Lely tedder

 

[michael N123]

I’ve a 4 rotor fella that’ll be older than me and that does a good job