Which tedder?

[Mark C]

We run a 9 m Class and 10 m Lely.

Lely is brilliant , really tears wet lumps apart with the hooked tines. Built like a brick outhouse, but does have more grease points daily.

Class is well built and has hydraulic headland curtain but in dry hay and haylage the grass really wraps around the rotors which.

 

[balerman]

Not exactly, no. Agco bought Lely but looks like the only range they were interested in were their round balers. The Lely design of tedders, rakes and mowers are no more, the closest you will get will be a Malone as they are using hooked tines.

Massey Ferguson and Fendt rakes and tedders are Fella designs, I believe that their mowers might be new Agco designs.

I bought a Massey 8 rotor tedder last year and so far can't fault it. It makes a good, even job and seems very well built.

Apparantly they are going to use the Lely technology in their tedders soon,would be mad not to IMO,the Fella tedders are ok but not a patch on Lely.The original Lely factory has shut tho.

 

[onthehoof]

The Lely design of tedders, rakes and mowers are no more,

So are parts going to be difficult to find

 

[ffukedfarmer]

Apparantly they are going to use the Lely technology in their tedders soon,would be mad not to IMO,the Fella tedders are ok but not a patch on Lely.The original Lely factory has shut tho.

I had heard that too, but I'm not so sure that they will.

So are parts going to be difficult to find

I believe that was already the case this last year.

 

[Deutzdx3]

Malone are worth real consideration. They are built very well. Think they only do 4 and 6 but could be wrong. They haven’t had all the steel taken out to make them
More profitable like others. Built to last.

 

[neilo]

Malone are worth real consideration. They are built very well. Think they only do 4 and 6 but could be wrong. They haven’t had all the steel taken out to make them
More profitable like others. Built to last.

I went to look at Lelys and bought a Malone last year. Build quality certainly hasn't been skimped on, but weight isn't necessarily ideal if you're trying to run it on a small tractor.

Very pleased with mine, but I'm pretty sure they only do 4 & 6 rotor machines.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

Is anyone on here running a 6 rotor Malone? 8.4m working width seems too wide for a 6 rotor even with the magical hooked tines, but I could be proved wrong.

 

[Cmoran]

Is anyone on here running a 6 rotor Malone? 8.4m working width seems too wide for a 6 rotor even with the magical hooked tines, but I could be proved wrong.

The man that does my tedding bought a 6 rotor Malone in 2017 to replace his lely does a great job never get any bother from it and it’s all small fields around here so doesn’t be long at it if I remember rightly it was nearly a meter wider and same price as lely at the time

 

[Beames]

Had a price on a new Lely 4 rotor Tedder today of £5,400 plus vat. Anybody else priced any other makes for a comparison?

 

[David.]

I have a Lely and get on fine with it, all the above being said though, about ongoing parts supply etc, I doubt I'd buy a new one today...

 

[Mackdee]

I bought a Malone 6 rotor last year and find it good for kicking out 3 X 10 foot swards but for going through it again I would rather one with smaller rotors.It's fine for silage but maybe not the best for hay.

 

[ollie989898]

Used to love tedding, every stock farm should have one, especially the dairy boys. Kick your grass out on a good day and make some ace silage.

 

[neilo]

Had a price on a new Lely 4 rotor Tedder today of £5,400 plus vat. Anybody else priced any other makes for a comparison?

My Malone 4 rotor was close to a grand over that, albeit a beefier frame. I struggled to find a tidy 4 rotor Lely for much less than £5k at the time, even with a bit of age on them.
That looks a good price, but I too would be concerned about future backup & spares. My local dealer said that he’d received a ‘thank you very much’ letter from Lely, as he was expecting, so presumably most of the other dealers will have had the same.

 

[davidroberts30]

My Malone 4 rotor was close to a grand over that, albeit a beefier frame. I struggled to find a tidy 4 rotor Lely for much less than £5k at the time, even with a bit of age on them.
That looks a good price, but I too would be concerned about future backup & spares. My local dealer said that he’d received a ‘thank you very much’ letter from Lely, as he was expecting, so presumably most of the other dealers will have had the same.

If they are selling them new then by law need to back them up for at least 2 years

 

[neilo]

If they are selling them new then by law need to back them up for at least 2 years

It would be getting hold of spares after that that i’d Be concerned about tbh.

 

[BDBed]

I was told by a store man of a dealer I use that they have been guaranteed another 2 years by agco. He says by that time a lot of the good lely technology will be incorporated into agcos products. If that's true let's hope they leave the bad bits like the mounted mower conditioner. I also think the should adopt the use of the Vermeer bed, it has made the lely mower I have now a completely different animal.

 

[BDBed]

Also I was told spares system has been sorted. The part I wanted in the summer and was told I would have to wait 47 days now stoked infect 11 in stock. Great for the winter grass season.

 

[Andrew]

Apparantly they are going to use the Lely technology in their tedders soon,would be mad not to IMO,the Fella tedders are ok but not a patch on Lely.The original Lely factory has shut tho.

The technology on a Lely is nothing special in my opinion. What IS good is the strength.

I bet AGCO won’t copy that.

 

[Deutzdx3]

The technology on a Lely is nothing special in my opinion. What IS good is the strength.

I bet AGCO won’t copy that.

They also bought fella which is now in massy colours and fendt colours. Are they going to run two different designs of machinery. I don’t see where lely fit into their line up apart from buying them removes a competitor and gives them the baler they didn’t have as they bought vicon bakers under licence in their own colours. Stumped. There is obviously a plan there some where!

 

[Beames]

Surely though someone in agco must realise that they would be on to a winner if they just rebadged lely under their brand