Good to here from you. We are having some great drying weather right now. I am near Hickory, PA.
If you have your whole day ahead of you, to farm, it is good weather right now to cut hay around 11am, and put the tedder to it around 10 or 11am the next day. That is the best way to make sure you get the hard dew off the windrows, and still have some hay that won't just shatter from being too brittle from being over dry. As long as we have these mornings when the dew is so thick that it looks like a night rain on the hay, we got to wait a bit. IF you are up a hill with good sun exposure, you might be able to go a bit early, and if the dewpoint gets lower, and you can cut at 9am, with a nice crunch on top by 4pm, you can ted it same day. The idea is to keep the leaves on the plant and get a good fluff and even drying on dry ground.
We have some real nice dry ground under the hay right now. I can bale next day, with the ground being this dry and the hay being devoid of moisture.
That tedder is more pertinent on second cutting when everything is green and wet. for what I have, and you probably have, the tedder is overkill. Keep it for when we get a good grass second cutting and the dew doesn't burn off until almost noon in the September air.
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