Leroy, rake follow up

Mike(NEOhio)

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Location
Newbury, Ohio
The auction I mentioned, There were a lot of NH from 56 to 258 that brought well of 2K. JD 640/680s, mid 1000s. A couple of NIs, 4-500. The Morra tedder I was looking at went for $500 and was kind of beat.
 
I did not watch them sell as I was at a different part of the sale. It would not have been for me but the Amish dealer I work with supplying him with machinery and other items. Got him a Maytag square tub wringer washer, cannot find enough of them to meet demand, rough but when done it will look like new and powered with a Honda gas engine. Table saws that he wanted only had one 10" that was good and went for more than he would want to pay and they run them with gas engines so all the direct drive ones there went cheap but the only usuable belt drive brought $160. On the rakes they want the old style like the New Idea No. 4, JD 596 or McCormick 4 bar enclosed gear or 3 bar rake tedder. Those are getting very hard to find even as parts machines that I am rebuilding. Some are now starting to use the parallel bar rakes but most of the forecarts could not handle one without the dolly wheel. And new wheels to put on one are $80 each so that would have been $240 to have gotten that 640 ready for the field plus some teeth. And that would have made it way out of their price range. The old steel wheel New Idea No. 4 rake-tedder good shape sells for around $800 now.
 
Location, location, location, I guess. I have my father in law's NH crusher that I can't seem to give away. I'll probably scrap it this year. The Amish around here are using haybines behind a forecart.
 
Rakes like that just hardly that valuable here in central Ky. Most folks now want huge folding rakes or at least 10 wheel v-rakes that cover a lot of ground.
 

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