#Sitrex

Tedding and Raking hay with a #Mahindra 1635 SST and a Sitrex #HM300 HayBob

[@letsride2057]

This is an old video but if someone is watching to learn, the baskets are tilted to far forward all that dirt is going to be in the forage and is not good for animals. The tines should just brush the tops of the cut grass, growing side. level the baskets with just slight front down angle, there are I believe three adjustment holes in the wheel carrier, or what ever they call them, adjust them to get the baskets lower to the ground as above mentioned. Also running in the dirt is hard on the implement.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

thank You.

[@Flowing23]

@@LedgemereHeritageFarm Dear Sirs, you have missed the most important setting on the machine. At 1 minute 18 seconds in the video as you talked about the tines, you'll notice that the tines are mounted on a one inch diameter steel shaft which has a spring on the shaft which keeps the tines in the forward whole of the mount. These tines are adjustable, you pull back on the tine, putting tension on the spring, and then you rotate the tine to the inside hole for raking. Each of the two holes on the mount have a assigned job, forward for tedding, back hole for raking. You need to lower the wheels on the basket to raise the baskets off the ground, it is obvious from your video they are too low. This machine is based on the PZ Haybob Turner/Rower which was used throughout Europe in the 90s and early 2000s. The PZ machine was the most popular machine in Europe for 15 years until Lely launched a competitor, essentially the same machine with a Lely sticker. Thank you.

[@Flowing23]

Dear Sirs, you have missed the most important setting on the machine. At 1 minute 18 seconds in the video as you talked about the tines, you'll notice that the tines are mounted on a one inch diameter steel shaft which has a spring on the shaft which keeps the tines in the forward whole of the mount. These tines are adjustable, you pull back on the tine, putting tension on the spring, and then you rotate the tine to the inside hole for raking. Each of the two holes on the mount have a assigned job, forward for tedding, back hole for raking. You need to lower the wheels on the basket to raise the baskets off the ground, it is obvious from your video they are too low. This machine is based on the PZ Haybob Turner/Rower which was used throughout Europe in the 90s and early 2000s. The PZ machine was the most popular machine in Europe for 15 years until Lely launched a competitor, essentially the same machine with a Lely sticker. Thank you.

[@ronnieg6358]

Yes bad set up.

[@reneprovencher8395]

Oh Lordy, this is what it looks like mowing my grass in Va. dry dusty and humid. Crazy year. Your implement does a pretty darn good job. Thanks for this video.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Thank You for watching

[@frankgibson8861]

I agree it it is a good tool that does two jobs reasonably well regards N Ireland .

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Thank You 😊

[@ronnieg6358]

There is a variant of this design by some manufactureres where the gearbox can be changed to rotate the rotors in the same direction enabling the crop to be swept to one side. This can be useful with a thin crop to make a bigger swath for baling.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

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[@taragreenhill8383]

Good video👍. Maine looks dry. Lol

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Yep. It sure is. Hoping to get some T-Storms later this week, but with the humid, they’ll be violent 😬

[@taragreenhill8383]

Hopefully it wont get too bad. Want the rain, not the storm

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

@@taragreenhill8383 It’s been very unseasonably dry

[@kerrysupporter]

Was there hay on that field

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Not much, there was a Drought. It was heavy in places though so I ended up with quite a lot

[@kerrysupporter]

Nice machinery

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

@@kerrysupporter thank you

[@RobinWhistles]

This was hard to watch. Fine machinery but terrible settings. Digging up soil and RPM's seem to be all over the place. The crop was so light, you might as well just rake it. You'll destroy that machine digging soil. You need the correct RMP for optimal spread. I learned the hard way.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Lesson learned, thank you

[@RobinWhistles]

@@LedgemereHeritageFarm In fairness I did my own share of busting up haybobs over the years 🤦‍♂️ so I'm in no position to lecture. V nice set up you got there 👍👌

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

@@RobinWhistles thank You. Last year was a real learning experience with two new pieces of machinery: that and my new sickle mower. My old IH tractors can just idle along and still cut nicely, but the Gaspardo has to be at 540

[@hikehalo3878]

You need some rain!

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Thank You for watching!

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Yes!

[@andylonsdorf1294]

I would waste the time and diesel tedding if that dry on the field.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

Still green on the bottom. Some parts of the country, you don’t need a tedder, but you need one in Maine regardless.

[@peterfarrelly2437]

Hardly worth the desiel saving such a light crop. Better just let some livestock eat it without cutting.

[@LedgemereHeritageFarm]

We were in a drought until July. There’s no fence around that field and the lady who owns it pays me to cut it every year.