Walton 8 wheel rake

Got a guy wanted to trade a Walton 8 wheel hydraulic fold to my older backup new holland 256. My 256 looks rough, but is in good mechanical shape and rakes well, but I honestly don't use it much. I know this style of hydraulic fold rake isn't a real high capacity rake, but that's ok for what I'll be using it for. Never rake with a wheel rake either. I tried a 4 wheel rake onetime and didn't care for it much. Hay just wanted to ball up with it. Any suggestions??
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We raked with a 4 wheel rake it was okay but would not turn over really heavy hay, so we switched to a ground driven rake.
 
We have a vermeer just like it that we have raked thousands of acres with. We traded off the 256 years ago. I prefer to rake like you plant corn, back and forth. These machines don't rake the corners well, but what rake does? A lot less maintenance. 1.29 teeth from s@h in Missouri. Nathan
 
Don't know what to tell you. It's almost identical to my Gehl,except mine's 3 point. Once you get the hang of setting them up right they'll rake hay to beat the band.
 
Big trick is to set it as wide as it'll go and still be able to pull in in to the baler pickup. I lay it out so I don't have to weave at all with the baler. Makes a perfect square shouldered bale. Try as I might,I can't put two windrows together with my Kuhn rotary that makes as nice a bale.
I don't know if the frame of that pull type is adjustable or not,but on my 3pt,I can slide the whole thing in and out on the frame. You want it so the wheels are running as straight as possible so they're rolling the hay,not sliding it. Straight as in rolling the direction of travel,not dragging sideways along the ground.
 
The two wheels on the right (standing behind) need to be flipped over. The two smaller turnbuckles adjust the width of the window. When your replacing teeth a helper is nice. If not available a shirt with a pocket a 17mm socket and some strategically placed teeth, oh and all this under a shade tree!
 
Good eyes. I hadn't even noticed those wheels being flipped over. My Gehl has a latch with four positions so you can turn them sideways to fold for transport or turn them as they are in the picture for tedding.
 
That is a Tonnutti rake. They made them for a bunch of companies including John Deere and Vermeer most notably. The down fall of that design is lack of frame clearance. They like to bunch in heavy hay if set to make a tight windrow.
 

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