the basics of raking & tedding hay

I wonder if Pete has ever explored alternatives to using a tractor. Could the tools be self powered and towed using an ATV or small truck?

I am enjoying your videos.

My father has a New Holland 256 hay Rake and a new Holland 133 hay inverter

I've made hay with only a mower and side-delivery rake. Not ideal..just real.

Yes Sir! Hay in the barn is worth more than "money in the bank!"

here is an instant idea of mine for that first windrow. Mark it with a cone or stick and flip it back one workingwidth so you scoop up all the hay to dry.

Very interesting video.
Making hay is a lot more complicated than I thought.

Once again I loved this video. My brother that I partner with bought what I consider for us an expensive buy, a 4000 dollar V wheel rake. It was a change from our old side delivery take, but I love this rake ..

Great info sir. Thank you

Do you really need the 656 to pull a rake? Why do you have the small, older Farmall tractors that will easily pull a rake? Just a question - I do really enjoy your vlogs.

the very 1st one thing is you have no WEEDS, good deal... some people buy cheap hay full weeds and then spray pastures every year...:/ thanks a lot...:)

How is cost one bale when you buying?

Hi Pete, Watched you video before heading out to rake a 6 acre piece of a neighbors field. I have a small sheep farm and had trouble getting someone to bale, so we decided to purchase some equipment and using a 25 HP & a 38 HP Mahindra we started learning. Today was my best day preparing the field to bale tomorrow. Thank You! BTW I am using a mini baler by Yanmar and produce 55 pound round bales. Having a love hate relationship because I love the size but cannot use a hat elevator to get it in the loft. I'll be following you more often now.

I’d be really curious to see your roll bar and canopy set up on the 656. I wouldn’t mind putting one on mine!

Thanks Peter for sharing your thoughts and knowledge
I have learned a lot from you and today I proudly cut my first hay !!!

Absolutely beautiful mate for someone new like myself 🙏

Instead of turning right at the end of your middle field rows. Turn left and you’ll be pulling your hay away from the edge if the fields out frok under the trees. I alternate turning once left Abd once right tgat wat I’m always merging gay back into itself Instead if the way you do.

Great videos man. Keep them coming. I'm learning a lot.

Our neighbor has a similar rake that you have

Great video,. Thank you for making this.

Been wanting to start growing hay for my own livestock.. but I don't have the acreage for the haha I'll have to stick with buying hay more then likely.. great video though keep it up!

Hi there Pete! I was wonder what do you do if you have raked the hay and then it rains. Do you ted the hay again to spread it out?

Always wondered how to use tedders. We don't have many up here in northern Canada but have seen them at heritage demonstrations further south. Good to know they are used with hay that is not too dry, makes them useful in my mind now:)

Just do all doubling the way u do your outside one and if u make atleast. 2 outside windows you have alot more room to turn at headlands

We always just racked. Hmm

Idk why but I'm glued to my phone

Love the straight talking knowledge you put out. Cheers to you and your family and farm.

Wow! It’s about time! My dad had a fluff Tedder on the farm back in the 60’s. You’re the first person I’ve heard talk about a tedder or even know what it is. Thank you. 😊

Thank you for an excellent series on how to cut,tedder and rake a field to make the bailing process easier and affective. This is my first year at haying and thanks to you lm off to a great start. Thank you great series.

I am new to haying, although I did it as a young person, mainly lifting the small bales to the top of the barn and walking the fields. It is amazing how far haying equipment has advanced with the large round bales and the tedders. After watching your video it has inspired me to tackle my 200 plus acres of hay rather than lease the property out again. You sir, are very articulate and are truly amazing the way you explain everything. With much appreciation from South Alabama.

In UK there used to be a towed machine called a Wuffler which opened up hay to dry. Do you have the same in the USA ?

Hey Pete! I remember watching this video when you made it but would love to see you doing the raking pattern from your new drone to getting an overhead view. Your explanations are always the best with the seemingly small but critical details.

Your explanation sounds like a architect explaining how the rake hay. 😂
Thanks for the knowledge. I really appreciate it.

Your awesome

I have equipment similar in size to yours, except this will be my first year using a tedder. I like to cut four "end rows" around the perimeter of the field (just going in circles) before I cut straight rows. When I rake it, I prefer to double up everything, but I save the inner two perimeter end rows for last so I can clean up any curling tails on the straight rows.

Thanks again!

Ya know,,,when we were farming, I raked and baled when grandpa said so. NOW,,,I know why he kused restraint on me. Thanks,Pete.

I smile watching your videos. Very good explanation. I am curious as to why you don’t take your second pass back into the first. You’re having to come back and pull the unraked back into the wind row and it seems to me you’re not flipping the mowed hay but mixing it making it necessary to re-rake. Just curious and as you say, everyone takes a little different.

I'm looking at purchasing my first hay conditioner but I see a 469 New Holland I wonder if it's able to spread the rollers apart to unclog also and are them a very good machine

I came to this video with the idea of showing my husband what a hay rake looks like. He grew up on a farm, and they had a tractor with a spike and a brush hog, but I guess they never had a hay rake.

I grew up on a farm, too, with a tractor, a hay rake, a sickle mower, a brush hog, a spike, a square baler, a round baler... but I was today years old before I knew that there was a such thing as a tedder!

We were talking about this tonight because I just found out that my Dad and my brother experienced a hayfield fire and their tractor, two rakes, a mower, and a over hundred round bales burned.

I started with your first haying video. I started playing MS Farming Simulator a couple months ago. It's getting me interested in all this yard work, windrowing, baling and harvesting and stuff like that. Thank you for showing us the real world of these processes!

Hey Pete, can’t tell you how helpful and enjoyable your videos have been to me! I appreciate all the hard work and attention to detail you put into them. I wanted to ask your opinion on an issue. We have a 55hp tractor, roughly 47.5 hp to the PTO and I’m wanting to invest in some hay equipment. This will be my first experience making hay. A lot of square balers recommend a minimum hp of 35. I would prefer the square baler, but I’m also looking at some of the mini round balers on the current market. Do you have any advice? Thanks

what kind of equipment would work with a 1954 naa

how fast do you drive while tedding?

Great series!

I never knew about tedding. I only saw side rakes rolling rows over to dry the bottom. Very informative. Thanks for all the great vids

Have you ever checked the moisture and how low should the moisture be on square bales