For the last 2 years, I've been working for an agricultural contractor, specialising in hay and silage making, who purchased a Kuhn 4 rotor tedder. We had a trouble free first season, however, this season has been a disaster. The weld holding the drive line casing to the vertical plate welded to the frame cracked and broke shearing the plate in half, bending the drive shaft and causing the far left rotor to fold under itself. It was fixed and sent back out to work. Within a few days of it working again, the weld joining the clutch of the tedder and the P.T.O. cracked and broke. Again it was repared. A few more days of work and it cracked and broke the pivots on the right hand side where the tedder folds up causing the right hand rotor to fold under itself and significantly bending the lift ram. I was wondering if anyone else has had trouble with Kuhn tedders or any comments, good or bad on other makes of tedders. Smithy, Victoria Australia.

The trouble is, most of the manufacturers who build these tedders seem to build them for the little farmer in the hills who maybe cuts 40 acres per year, they are never built strong enough for the rigours of contracting life. I used to have a Kuhn myself and what you are saying sounds very familiar. We also had a Kuhn giro rake, which had 4 legs (some of the time) and that was traded in after 2 seasons, they are just not strong enough. It would be easy to blame Kuhn, but it seems to be a general problem with these machines. We want cheap machinery and to build a good strong tedder would mean paying more, and we don't pay more do we? We use Claas machines now, and to be fair they are a little bit better made, but we always write off our tedders and rakes over two years and then simply accept that we are going to have to buy again.

 

we ted over 200 aceres a year and we have had a kuhn tedder we have had it for 7 years and it has never put a foot wrong and we have only broke 1 tine

 but i supose your on a john deere going flatout and saying on your cb oo look at me am in a way over priced deere

Kuhn tedders are ok, made to work all year, could be operator error, or rough ground.