Couple of rake questions.

Bret4207

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I have 3 rakes I use- a NH 256, an IHC 14 and a JD 894. When I got the IH and Deere they had mostly generic rubber mounted teeth. Each had a few hold down clips and steel teeth scattered among the rubber ones. Being that the rubber teeth I can get are pretty short lived, has anyone ever gotten the NH clips and steel teeth to work on other brands? I know the angle is different, but the lengths are not too far apart (I don't have the specifics in front of me). It would be great if the much less expensive and far more common NH set up would work.

Any experience in this area?
 
I had a friend that had a JD 660 rake with rubber tines when he bought it. Like a lot of people didn't like the short life of the, I am thinking he put NH steel tines with the clip bolted on the back of the bar in it. This may be the easy solution to your problem. I am not 100 percent sure.
 
I recently bought a JD rake with rubber mounted teeth. Real nice rake, but I'm skeptical of those rubber pieces getting brittle and scattering all over the fields. An old timer in the neighborhood says the rubber mounted teeth will last better if you shed the rake out of the sunlight as much as possible. Let us know what you figure out. My teeth are all new, but someday. . .
 


Well, went to town and was in TSC and found they had NH, JD and IHC tines. Bought one of each. I already had some NH clips. Looks like it will work fine on the IHC using the NH tine and clip. The JD bar is shaped different, no indent, so I gotta come up with a different clip. What I need is an oversized JD channel style clip.

Thanks Brendon. THat's even better than Shoup!
 
If you are referring to the rubber teeth there is a reason Deere teeth cost so much more than the other ones. Use your rake for awhile and you will find out. We use our rake hard,4 cuttings alfalfa,3 cuttings grass,25 acres oatlage,50 acres straw and the worst is 40 acres of corn stalks. I might replace one or two rubber teeth per year. We do keep our rake inside out of the sun. We also added all the extra teeth the bars have holes for. I have no experience with the steel teeth as we always had the rubber ones. I tried the cheap aftermarket ones and they would not last for us. Tom
 

I bought a JD 894 rake out of a guys fence row. He said he put all new rubber teeth on it then ended up buying a different rake and this got parked a couple years ago. Anyway, I pulled it home, cleaned things up, greased it good and went to rake hay. Worked great for the first 100' then slowly stopped raking. Stopped to see what was going on. Had to go back to the barn for a bucket and walked to pick up all the rubber teeth. Looks like the metal rusts under the rubber and the bond isn't so good anymore. If you use those rubber teeth better find a parking spot under a roof or a tarp at a minimum.
 

Back when I was doing around fifty acres a year I was replacing about five rubber mount tines a year. They were always old ones from before I got the rake.
 
Aftermarker (TSC) NH metal rake tines and the aftermarket NH holddown clips are working for me on a
JD 350 rake - at least on the inner locations. They're heavier than JD and seem to bend less. Because
of the way the JD clip is made for the end of the bar tubes, I keep JD tines there.
 
(quoted from post at 14:45:40 05/29/17) Aftermarker (TSC) NH metal rake tines and the aftermarket NH holddown clips are working for me on a
JD 350 rake - at least on the inner locations. They're heavier than JD and seem to bend less. Because
of the way the JD clip is made for the end of the bar tubes, I keep JD tines there.

Does the 350 have a dimple or indent where the curl of the tine fits? Thats the problem with the 894, the tube is as round as can be, no indent at all. It was made for the rectangular clips bridging 2 tines at once.

I do like the the fact the NH tines are a lot heavier. Just got to figure out how to attach them.
 
The JD 350 rake does not have a dimple for the tine. The JD clip and bolt held it as correctly
needed. The NH tines on the JD 350 rake with the NH clip usually stay in the right place for me - I
tighten them fairly good.
 

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