New Idea 2 wheel front mounted rake

JJABR · Jan 23, 2016

Has anybody ever seen a new idea 2 wheel front mounted rake in action? Any pictures of one mounted on a tractor. I've found a few pictures of the farmhand 2 wheel version, but not the new idea.

RickB · Jan 23, 2016

They aren't really rakes. They were built to flip windrows and work great for that. Used a Farmhand 40 years ago; never saw a New Idea.

JJABR · Jan 23, 2016

I have a unit, so I know they were made. Has dark orange, close to red in color inserts that say new idea on the wheels. The mount is red in color. My dad mounted this to a Farmall H in the mid 80s for my grandpa. They ended up taking the wheels and j shaped bracket the wheels mounted on, off the H, but left the T shaped beam that bolted to frame of tractor on it, to push flat racks to hay elevator. He had a Hesston PT-10 9' haybine, so flipping windrows must've been the intention(not full out raking, doubling& merging rows,etc.)

Hayfarmer · Jan 23, 2016

Not sure of the brand but lots of people used to use that type setup to turn windrows here. When guys swathed hay they often went through and turned the inside end windrow soon after they finished swathing as it got pretty flat running over it. The one I have has to be raised manually which is not great unless you can mount it to a loader frame or something. Others I have seen raise hydraulically. They also make similar setups that hook on the back on the 3 point.

DeltaRed · Jan 23, 2016

I have a Farmhand 2wheel on an H Farmall.Mount it in spring,it stays on all haying season. Works super. Gently flips wet windrows,drive as fast as you want(3rd or 4th gear wide open). Used to see a few 'Pollard' rakes at sales,never saw a NewIdea.Odd thing is most folks have never seen one till they see mine.

big jt · Jan 24, 2016

Grandpa bought a Pollard front mount new. Originally it was a 4 wheel and Dad added a fifth so it would take a full mower swath and we could put two mower swaths together in two trips instead of three.

Worked pretty well till you went to turn a corner then it would bunch. Lack of replacement teeth was the final reason to retire it.

At one point we were cleaning up some scrap and Dad said maybe we should haul it off also, not much weight and it being the first thing I did driving a tractor saved it from my torch that day.

Year or two later our local threshing show board was looking for a way to rake out the straw stack. I sat in that meeting (was on the board at the time) and finally piped up that I thought I had a solution. Tried it out that year and been doing it ever since. There are a few things that are needed to make it work real well but it sure beats a pitchfork.

jt

big jt · Jan 24, 2016

OH yeah you mentioned colors. Pollard used a green not far off Oliver as the main color. The rims on our sprayer are/were red. Stencils on the mounting bracket for the rake is yellow. I think the centers for the rake wheels were stenciled in red with the same darkesh green.

I think Farmhand bought out Pollard. At least some of the designs were very similiar and geographically they were close. The teeth look like they should mount up but they don't work quite right.

jt

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