mystery wheel rake

bumblebeeoh

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Any ideas on the identity of this wheel rake? There is some yellow still visible here and there, so I'm thinking maybe JD or Massey. It is for sale at a good price, but
it's missing about 20 teeth. I don't want to jump in unless I know I can buy replacements.


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Been many years ago, but grandpa had a rake that was similar to that. It was a Nixon brand. It was sold and has been gone from the farm for 20 years now.
 
i bought one like that on sale used it couple times. got rid of it soon as i could i do not like those type teeth get you one with the long style tines,much better unit can not compare the two types. free still would not want unit let alone 250dollars mine if remember had new idea sticker i think been to long
 
I agree with it being a farm hand......Mine was previously enjoyed, owner had strung a cable through all the coils on the teeth to keep them from ending up in the windrow when they broke off. Scrapped it years ago, use an 8 wheel v rake now.
 
Those are definitely not farm hand style teeth. Farm hand teeth are doubles, this one has a bolt for every tooth. Similar, but way different. With how rusty those teeth are, I'd say stay away. You'll end up replacing most of them in short order, and probably at least $4/tooth.

We've got a Morrill brand 5 wheel take that uses the same teeth as farm hand rakes. Before we owned it, there has been wire strung through all the coils do if the coil breaks off, you don't lose the whole thing.

A while back one of the wheels broke the wire and a coil broke off. Years later while plowing that field, the tooth was found in the front tire of the tractor...

I would look for one in better shape. $250 is too much for that, especially with scrap as low as it is.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Don't know the brand, but can it be used to ted hay? Dad had a 3-point hitch Massey rake with the long teeth and we used it to ted hay. To ted with it you flipped the entire bar that the big wheels are mounted on 180 degrees. He didn't like the way it raked and bought a conventional side delivery rake.
 
It is an OLD Farm hand rake. The later ones had the double teeth. I would say RUN FORREST RUN!!!!! That thing did not rake very good when new. With the rake teeth rusted like they are I would bet that most would break in short order. Then you have a MESS in your hay field as those broke teeth will find there way into tires and sickles for YEARS!!!

So even if they gave it to me I would not use it to rake any ground I would ever be back on.
 
Looking around the net, I see reference to something called a Pollard rake that looks similar. And I see teeth available for the Pollard. No clue if the same teeth as that thing uses........

No idea tho, and I've not heard good words on those style rakes, myself.....

Paul
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I have a newer model of that Farmhand rake. I see that lots of the parts look like they'd interchange with mine. Mine used to have red frame/yellow wheels, with some kind of masonite(?) centers in each wheel. There were two versions - one had larger diameter wheels than the other.

I have adjusted my rake every way that it can be adjusted, and it still doesn't rake clean. I keep it in a fencerow for emergency use only. Paint is long gone.
 
I doubt that one could. There are instructions in the manual for my Gehl on how to use it for a tedder. I've tried twice,but about all it does is makes tiny little windrows with each wheel and tends to ride right up around the wheels.
 
After making a few tweeks to our Morrill rake, it rakes clean, it just leaves a windrow that can be hard to follow some times. All I did was bend the pole for the hitch so that the raffle itself ride level to the ground. It rakes the field clean now. We've also replaced most of the teeth on it over the years we've had it which weren't bad for a while, but now are over $7/each.

The window just gets a little chunky some times, with it kicking the occasional fluff farther out, making it hard for a narrow baler pickup to get it all. For single raking behind our 14' machine, it's my rakefof choice. For doubling that one, our doing anything behind our 9' machine, our new idea parallel bar rake is my rake of choice.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
it is also missing the center cones// Pal of mine had 1 in the 70's he said "without them it wont rake"
 
Maybe you don't have it angled sharply enough. Their not as effective as a regular tedder. Dad said as long as it lifts the hay up some so air can get under it is all that is necessary.
 
(quoted from post at 15:54:28 01/30/16) it is also missing the center cones// Pal of mine had 1 in the 70's he said "without them it wont rake"

They'll rake just fine without the covers in the middle. Seen plenty of them over the years without them.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Paul
The Pollard name brings back memories, haven't heard that name for a long time. IIRC, Pollard was a Mpls company that invented the wheel rake around 1950. They were mfg in an old hemp rope factory near Sherburn, just a mile across the field where I grew up. The family lived in the old office part of the factory, kids rode the same bus to school that we rode.
Watched a demo one day. The Pollard rake had a swinging hitch. To show this, salesman raked all the grass hay out of a road ditch onto the road to be baled. Even with the rake down next to fence, the tractor stayed on the road surface. Dad baled the hay for his horses.
More than you wanted to know.

Willie

The last i heard, Schweiss, out of Fairfax, was building something in that factory.
 
I vote Pollard. Later one at that. The teeth are the key. The later Pollard's used a single tooth arrangement. Earlier ones used a two tine per tooth similar but not the same as farmhand.

Gonna disagree with the haters here. I have a front mount of the older variety. Worked great on the straightaways till you turned left. Use it now for baling strawstack at local threshing show and it is just what the doctor ordered for that job.

Teeth are a issue. The single ones are available but tough to get. The double teeth are made of "unobtainium" but teeth for John Deere rakes can be reworked if you are handy at making jigs.

jt
 

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