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What's the opinions out there watch them on tube but their all on perfectly flat ground thinking about updating rake thanks
 
I was just thinking about that very thing. Was visiting the Morra (Italian mfgr of such) www site yesterday due to a question I had on a tedder and saw their rake. Since the thing is what it is, seems that it will do a better job of following the terrain with the wheels positioned where they are and the long tynes, vs the JD side delivery, parallel bar and 4 basket (worthless) rakes I have.

The JD does a good job for me but I'd prefer 3 pt for irregular fields where I can lift the rake to go over raked product rather than dragging the rake through it and messing up a good wind row. Only wear out part I see is the curtain and that probably isn't that bad when it fails on cost and trouble to replace. ASC is the USA Morra dealer. They don't advertise such in their catalogs, but may on their www or call and ask. Morra is priced right and you can't beat their service after the sale via ASC. Got my drain plug for my 15 year old tedder yesterday via UPS.
 
I bought a new Kuhn in 1987. I had one of the first ones around here. Amazing,with all of them that there are around now,everybody was pretty sure they wouldn't work. All I can say is,a chimpanzee could rake lawn clippings with one of those things.
 
Is there anything else? I've got a Kuhn. 10 years old. One flat tire... that's it. This one is mounted; has walking beams under it. Handles rough ground fine. Trailed also has it's advantages. They don't take a lot of power to run but the mounted ones take a lot of tractor to carry them so keep that in mind. You're not going to carry a large single rotor Kuhn around on a 40hp tractor (at least not without a bunch of front weight and a lot of dancing around)...

Rod
 
I'd love to have one - they eliminate a lot of tedding
A friend of mine had a Kuhn double rotary - it makes the windrows so fluffy he rarely has to ted. He has a lot of steep/rough ground, and has no problems.
Pete
 
I have an old Kuhn, it works great. If you buy used, just make sure it has been maintained, and make sure you know where all of the grease zerks are. In my opinion, I would have never gotten my 2nd cutting off last year without it. Best investment ever.
 
I've had second thoughts on what I said about a rotary rake that throws the product into a curtain. That is, and this is merely conjecture, the wind rows aren't even. One side will be high and straight sided and the other will be low and spread out. My tractor is setup on 6' and my baler bales a 5' bale so I have to stomp on some hay as it is to get the ends filled. With this kind of a rake (conjecture again) I never will get a level bale.....seems to me. Think I'll stay with my old 600 series JD parallel bar.
 
Mark, a suggestion if I may!
Make double windrows rolling two passes towards each other so that the windrows are right against each other. I find that this works with my small square baler as well. by rolling two windrows against each other you will have a single that is wide but not too high. should work good with your round baler.
HTH, Dave
 
Had a Vicom Trapezze double 5 wheels each side 3pt. Excellent rake. Had it on case 930. If you came out quickly
with the clutch front end came off ground. Very happy with it. Only problem was 1st time I mounted it on tractor I
pulled lift lever without checking settings and made some crunched fenders.
 

I would like to have a rotary rake. I tried them two different times, the problem that I run into is that with the odd shapes of my fields that I have so many centers and the rotaries that I tried wouldn't turn in the centers like a rollabar.
 
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