vermeer WR10 rake

looking for feedback on a WR10 Vermeer rake. I am looking at buying one and can't find any info about them online. Any thing good or back from you guys?


Thanks

The rake is a 10 wheel carted V-rake right? First, you need to get one with a center kicker wheel. Good points- you can cover some acres fast with this rake depending on circumstances. Low maintenance. Not terribly expensive, in fact one of the cheaper options out there for as much acres as they can cover. Bad points- not good if you have irregular shaped fields. Tractor needs dual remotes. Makes a windrow better than a basket rake, but worse than a rotary rake. Biggest bad point is it can be a big pain in the rear in heavy 1st cut hay as the hay may ‘ball up” as it is exiting the rake.

I had a Wr22 10 wheel for 3 years. It worked fine
in light hay behind a 9 foot swather with the a
rake wheel removed from each side of the rake to
make it an 8 wheel pulling 2 9" windrows together.
In heavy hay or 12" windrows from my 12" swather
hay caught under the frame and plugged the rake.
Also raking width and windrow width are not
independently adjustable. As the rake is adjusted
wider to rake more hay the width of the windrow
exiting the rake is narrowed. And vice versa, if
the raking width is narrowed the windrow width
exiting the rake is increased. This was a problem
for me running a 4" pickup on a round baler.

(quoted from post at 13:50:30 07/08/14)
In heavy hay or 12" windrows from my 12" swather
hay caught under the frame and plugged the rake.
Also raking width and windrow width are not
independently adjustable. As the rake is adjusted
wider to rake more hay the width of the windrow
exiting the rake is narrowed. And vice versa, if
the raking width is narrowed the windrow width
exiting the rake is increased. This was a problem
for me running a 4" pickup on a round baler.

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Good reasons to get a bi-fold rake. On my H&S the rake wheels are next to unraked hay with frame behind rake wheels. Raking width & windrow width are 2 different adjustments. My H&S Hi-cap will take right with a roll-a-bar rake.

I have one of those, I think, anyway it is a Vermeer 10 wheel v rake. It covers ground fast. It dows not like to make short turns, the windrows in the turns will be misshapen. I do use dual remotes. my main complaint is that when I have it adjusted to make decent windrows and raise the rake with the hydraulics, the rear wheels drag the ground which is not good if you are changing fields along a paved road. I don't think the 8 wheels have that problem. Be careful when turning near trees or posts, you can hang the rake on them.

Amusing story on the rakes: Cousin has an 8 wheel and needed an extra wheel for parts. Both of us were at a dealers and he spotted a wheel laying on the ground outside the shop. Dealer is a wheeler dealer and dosen't like to miss a sale, so he made my cousin a good $20 price on the used wheel. I hadn't gone there expecting to get a wheel, but I could have used one. After cousin and dealer finished the deal and money changed hands, i noticed a as new wheel leaning against the building, in plain view, cousin hadn't seen it. I asked the dealer about the good wheel, and he sold it to me for $25. The look on cousin's face was priceless, if he had noticed he would have bought both of them.

KEH

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I have one of those, I think, anyway it is a Vermeer 10 wheel v rake. It covers ground fast. It dows not like to make short turns, the windrows in the turns will be misshapen. I do use dual remotes. my main complaint is that when I have it adjusted to make decent windrows and raise the rake with the hydraulics, the rear wheels drag the ground which is not good if you are changing fields along a paved road.KEH

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The rear rake wheels dragging when folded in air is a common problem on a butterfly(fold together in air) rake but not on my bi-fold as rake wheels all raise to same height on my rake.

That's what I'm running now, 12
wheel H&S