lastcowboy32
Well-known Member
My wife picked up an Allis Chalmers rollabar style rake at auction for 175 bucks.
Not a bad deal.
But...the gearbox behaves strangely. I test raked with it for a ways, and it worked fine. Then I stopped to check the teeth.
When I got on the tractor to pull it away and actually rake, the gearbox suddenly developed a hard stop at one point in its rotation.
I can move the rake bars freely in the opposite direction that they are supposed to go...but if I try to rotate them in the direction that they turn while raking.... the gearbox catches...always at the same point in the rotation.
Now, I can force it past, if I lift up on the bar about as hard as I can... BANG! something in the gearbox pops and the bars turn... until it gets back to that point.
Anybody experience this?
Not a bad deal.
But...the gearbox behaves strangely. I test raked with it for a ways, and it worked fine. Then I stopped to check the teeth.
When I got on the tractor to pull it away and actually rake, the gearbox suddenly developed a hard stop at one point in its rotation.
I can move the rake bars freely in the opposite direction that they are supposed to go...but if I try to rotate them in the direction that they turn while raking.... the gearbox catches...always at the same point in the rotation.
Now, I can force it past, if I lift up on the bar about as hard as I can... BANG! something in the gearbox pops and the bars turn... until it gets back to that point.
Anybody experience this?