Broken David Bradley gear

Dick S

Member
Got my David Bradley side-delivery rake
home from the auction and found a third
of the main drive gear in the bottom of
the gearbox, along with some other
pieces that belong in the box and a
couple of nuts which probably don't.
So, does anyone have a parts machine
with a good gear, or know where one
might be found?

This is the model with the parallel
front 16" wheels and two staggered 10"
crazy wheels in back. Tag says model
#917 5732.

Thanks for any ideas.
 
Brother scrapped our DB rake about 5 years ago. It had a good gearbox (before it went to scrap).
 
I have seen a few guys that took a regular right angle gear box off of something else and made them work. It would not be original but could be made useable.
 
Try calling Fry's Parts in Pa. 570-546-3968. They might even have one- They have just about anything else.....
 
Is yours the wheel in line model or the offset wheel model? Offset wheel is the more common model. Gearbox might be different. And those wheels are 12", not 10", standard wore out for road boat trailer tires are good for them. And depends on how the gear is made (I do not remember what the gear box looked like as we sold ours back in 81 when we quit the dairy and never had to have it apart) but unless it is too complicated I think some friends could make one.
 
Front wheels are in-line, rears are offset. Rear wheels are 12", sorry for the typo in my original post.

Casting is pretty complex and breakage is such that it's not a good candidate for repair.
 
Wheel in line means that on the right side the front and rear wheels are in a line and the real sticks out between them to where if you were working along a fence the end of the real could pull the fence into the winrow. The offset wheel model the back wheels are probably about 3 feet apart but on the wheel in line model they would be about 6 ft apart. And on the ofset wheel model the end of the real will be about a foot and a half to the inside of the right front drive wheel and the front wheels on all are on one solid axle across the front of the rake, think if I remember correctly there was a drop down drive at each wheel. Would have to hunt up catalog they were sold in to know for sure on that drop down on the axle. New Idea amd CcCormick did not have the drop down but John Deere did.
 
OK, terms mean different things to different people. This particular machine is "offset" according to your definition.

The front wheels are on a solid axle which also passes through the gear box at the front of the rake, and the outside of the right front wheel is just about even with the outside of the right rear end of the reel. The two rear wheels are staggered to match the angle of the reel and about four feet apart looking at them from the front or rear, or about 5-1/2 feet center-to-center of their respective pivots. The right rear wheel is about midway between the front wheels, again looking from the front or rear. The drop down in not at the wheels, but is at the center of the reel, and drops the reel, only.

Hope this is clear at last.
 
Would it help if I could send you catalog pages of the 3 different rakes David Bradley sold? If so first I need a way to email you. I am going to open my email. And if you can give me pictures of the broken gear I could tell if my friends could make you a steel gear.
 
Leroy: Sent you an email using the link in your post, but haven't heard from you. I've opened my email link if you want to try it.
 
Dick,
We have 2 David Bradley rakes sitting in the 'tree line', will try yo look for number or snap a photo. They are built like you describe.
Garry gfoster at yadtel.net
 

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