Making hay is often a time-sensitive endeavor where hours count and balancing hay quality and machine efficiency is imperative. Although hay machines have a standard recommended PTO and ground speed for operation, farmers and operators sometimes do not follow those recommendations due to time constraints or other personal convictions.
Tedding can be a useful tool prior to raking hay to slow respiration, increase dry down, and assist in uniform drying across the field, especially in low-lying and wet areas of the field.
In collaboration with Cornell University, Massey Ferguson conducted a trial in Canton, USA on a second cutting mixed cool-season perennial grass. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of tedder ground speed and PTO RPM speed on swath spread and ground cover. Massey Ferguson tedder was operated at 2 different ground speeds by 2 different PTO RPM speeds.
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