Rake tooth question.

Farmallb

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I bought around 40 hay rake teeth for 2 steel wheel Case side rakes. Put them on and ran them. The teeth were too long. In operation, which I noticed later afrter the damage, they actually knocked the rust off of the center bar. I bent up around a doz. I got these from T _ _. I was going to buy replacemwents from them, but they had a fire in the bldg. so I went home and ordered them from a catalog parts house. Found out the first was 2in too long.
QUESTION
Can I cut off 2in from the ends of those remaining and put a slight bend in them and make them work. I thought id cut them with a torch and bend them and set one in a can of oil. Do another and pull the first out and put in the next, and so on. Do you think they will work alright?
I bought a whole full set of the right ones for one rake. That's pretty expensive buying. I cant take these back as ive already used them.
 
If you have access to a chop saw it would cut them off without destroying the temper in the teeth. Put them in a good vice with the proper amount exposed and place a small pipe on the tooth to bend the right amount of curve to the end of the tooth. Joe
 
Never tried cutting a tooth so do not know if a hacksaw would cut them or not. Do you have a 4 1/2" angle grinder? if so get the metal cutting blades and use it. Just clamp the tooth in a vice at the spot you want to cut and use the vise as a guide. Then to put a curve in them whever you want clamp the tooth in that vise and use a hammer to bend the tooth. or possibly depending on how you need to put a bend in then instead of the hammer use a piece of 1/2" iron pipe. I have straightened hundreds of bent teeth with the vice or anvil and hammer or pipe. Also when they are bent in the spring part Ican usually get them straightened good enough for work. I just redid one of those Case No. 170 rakes this summer and New Idea teeth from the 4 bar models are perfect on that Case. In the last few years I have rebuilt someware around 3 dozen of those steel wheel rakes with several more setting here wating on me. Most of them are going to a dealer for resale. Some of the rakes I have used almost all straightened teeth on because it is not price feasable to put on new when the old ones can be made to work again. And the Teeth for that rake I can get for $2.25 a tooth. This was last years price but I will have to buy 128 of them for this comming year unless I can find some used ones. 4 rakes taking 64 teeth per rake on the 4 bar New Ideas. Some of the rakes I paint and some I leave rusty. Just depends on quality of rake.
 
Outa courisity do you have an extra tooth adjustment lever? The one that makes the teeth point forward or backward.
 
We bought a whole bunch one year that were to big i cut them with a hacksaw and put a little bend in the end with no problem.
 
I can do that. Most of them tho are still on one Case rake. I got an angle grinder. Might try that. Hate to take them all off, just to put them all back on again.
 
Don't remember if the lever from a 160 (3 bar) is the same or not or if I still have it or if I modified it for a different rake.
 
Can you get a couple of cheap used tires that are a couple inches taller than the tires now on your rake and run on them until you wear this set of teeth out?
 
Put a cut-off wheel, on the grinder, it'll save you time, cutting that many teeth. you might lose a little hay, with straight teeth rather than the right ones, but you'd be hard pressed to figure up the loss!
 
He said steel wheel, no tires and they hit the center bar of the real so that they are bending every time the real revolves.
 
I posted the correct tooth number and supplier for a 170 rake but as usual no-one listens and then they create their own personal train wreck.
 

#1 These are all 3 steel wheel rakes
#2 Im 66yrs old
#3 I only have less than 15 acres of hay
#4 They should outlast me
 

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