Gears for JD steel wheel side rakes

Farmallb

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Does anyone know if JD still sells the end of the reel gears. The center gear, and the 4 reel gears. Im needing at least the center gear, and one or 2 of the end reel gears.
 
I broke one of the 4 end reel gears on my old JD rake last summer. I found some gears on e-bay, and I "think" I also found them on the John Deere parts site. Seems like the e-bay price was $80 for a NOS gear. I finished up the season with another rake. I have an equipment jockey looking for a parts rake for me. I think I can find a whole parts rake for $80.

I'm a skinflint. . .
 
YOUR A SKINFLINT??????????

My dad gave me this rake cause a gear on one reel was bad. I located it 30yrs ago, and welded on a tooth or 2. It has held up till 2yrs ago. I suppose perhaps the welded tooth hurt the center gear.
 
The way things are made that center gear gets all the wear on just either 3 or 4 spots depending on if 3 or 4 bar rake. and it is the one that always goes. Do not know if they could be welded up or not. I do have some of the end gears for both 3 and 4 bar rakes. And for as far as value I just paid $350 for a 3 bar that needs some work and it went to my amish dealer friend for resale at probably $600 when ready. Just a pair of wheels will cost that $60.
 
Take the gear to a welding shop and have them weld up new teeth, we have a couple old Dane rakes around here and we welded that center gear on both, the bottom teeth are the ones that take the beating from the pressure of the hay against the bars right there.
 
I probably have the gears you need, but would have to check tomorrow, as it's raining here right now.
 
The last sun gear I bought was 20 years ago and it came out of the obsolete warehouse. The 594 was the best rake of it's day and I still use one in my waterways.
 
I tried to find the other half of the gear, but it was lost in the windrow. Hard to weld up 1/2 half of a gear, ha. I gave $75 for the whole rake about 1985, so the $80 for one gear is hard to swallow. Patience - one will come along someday. They are good rakes - they clean up good and leave a nice windrow.
 
Actually the 594 is third in desireability behind a New Idea No. 4, followed be the McCormick 4 bar enclosed gear and then the Deere 594 that is a lot lighter rake than the others and that stripper bar spacing of 12" will leave short hay-straw go into real that the 8" bar spacing on the others will pick up and rake clean, the later 594 rakes had that 8" spacing optional. In the last few years I have handled at least 40 rakes with rebuilding most of them for an Amish machinery dealer. Have 4 New Idea No. 4 rakes setting here now for rebuilding and when done they will retail for $800+, the 594 Deere about $650+
 
Dawgs. I sold 2 Case side rakes last year, for $40 ea. I saw 3 IHC high wheel rubber tired rakes go for $25 eac. This in NE Okla
 
The high rubber tire rakes are not worth much more than as parts rakes unless you happen to have a set of full steel wheels to put on. The 3 bar McCormick is worth something because it does have the tedder gear in that the 4 bar does not have but IHC never upgraded them from oil squirt can to grease Zerks but one was built up to 1958 and the other to 1960. The 3 bar was built starting in the 20's. and the enclosed gear 4 bar starting in 1940. The Case rake on full steel is also a good rake as long as it is a 4 bar and not a 3 bar and a New Idea rake tooth can be used on the Case if you uses a New Idea clip to hold tooth on as the New Idea tooth is just a bit more than 1/16" wider than the Case tooth. And the Case clip will not fit without some modifying on a New idea tooth. Also any of the rakes with the quick easy change 1 bolt tooth is worth more than the rakes with the teeth that go over the bar and that you have to remove bar and all teeth to change one tooth.
 

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