Dump rake

Wheatfarmer · Mar 6, 2016

Does anyone have a picture of the rope trip pull handle on a McCormick dump rake. I have been working on mine and something is not right. Looks like it should be pushing down on the foot trip lever. Maybe there was a roller there. Yes it has been used a lot, and I want to pull some cut dead grass off of a meadow.

rustred · Mar 6, 2016

i would just burn the grass off. i have an ihc horse rake and didnt know it was rope operated. you had to ride on it behind the horses to operate it.

old · Mar 6, 2016

The dump rake I have that was my grand fathers does not have and I have never seen a rope trip part on one. ALL of them I have ever seen a man had to sit on them and hit the foot pedal and then grab the handle and push/pull on it to lift and then lower the rake

Jim in Ma. · Mar 6, 2016

It's been years now but we had a IH dump rake that was retrofitted to use with a tractor.
I think it had a small pulley bolted to the seat and a piece of rope to trip the rake.

JimB2 · Mar 6, 2016

Hi Wheat Farmer, 50+ years ago, I raked green oats with ours and it was never used again. As far as I know it is still parked in a fence row unless my brother sold it for scrap. IIRC the rope was attached to the foot pedal and down to a small pulley attached to the frame or pole. So pulling the rope would put a downward force on the foot pedal. Wasn't the lever used to lock in the up position? It has been so long my memory is foggy on the IHC dump rake operation.

JimB

roy prins · Mar 6, 2016

I might have a manual of some sort for that rake if your interested -- cheap too! let me know and I will go look it up and see if its the right one -- Roy

Bob · Mar 6, 2016

I have my Dad's dumprake, IIRC, it's an IH, and it has a trip rope setup.

I think the snow is melted enough so I can get to it and take a photo of the trip rope attachment parts.

I will try to remember to do that tomorrow.

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Brian G. NY · Mar 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 03:06:46 03/07/16) the rope was attached to the foot pedal and down to a small pulley attached to the frame or pole. So pulling the rope would put a downward force on the foot pedal. Wasn't the lever used to lock in the up position? It has been so long my memory is foggy on the IHC dump rake operation.

JimB

JimB,

That's exactly how I remember them being when we started pulling them behind tractors. And I agree, the long lever was designed to hold up the rake at the end of a turn when someone was on the seat.
We used to repeatedly pull the rope and the tines would bob up and down 'til we released it to start raking again.
We used to go over the fields after they had been side-raked and baled and get one or two long windrows for baling the last bit of hay.
Boy.......was that a long......long.....tome ago. LOL

JimB2 · Mar 6, 2016

Brian, I did that on one field next the road. I don't want to get JD guys up set at me but here is the story.
Local JD dealership had been purchased by my great aunt's nephew and my Dad had decided to trade hiss IH 45T baler on a new IH 46T baler
but he thought he would give JD dealer some business and try a JD 14T baler. He baled one field next the main county road with it then he
looked at the field from the road and he could see hay left on every window row by the JD baler. So I had to rake the field crossways with the
dump rake and then he baled the windrows from the dump rake and got another few bales. Next he called IH dealer to delivery an IH 46T baler
and tried them both in the next field. You could see the difference, the IH had a far superior pickup to JD but JD had a better knotter.
Dad decided to keep the IH.
JimB

Wheatfarmer · Mar 6, 2016

You are correct and mine has the pulley. Will take pictures tomorrow to help with the foggy. And there is also the longer lever for holding it up. You are welcome to come out and ride it. LOL

Wheatfarmer · Mar 6, 2016

We did the same thing, and called it a Scatter rake. Pulled with a gray team. Then pushed up the window with a hay sweep onto a Overshot stacker. I am building a model of the stacker.

Dick2 · Mar 6, 2016

My Dad would never let any of us boys operate the dump rake when it was pulled by horses. Too many operators had been killed or severely injured when the team had a "runaway" with the rake. There was no seat belt and the operator often fell forward and got tumbled by the rake until the horses stopped. It was and still is a dangerous piece of equipment if not used carefully. Personally, I would use a dump rake; I'd find a safer piece of equipment to use for the job.

James Howell · Mar 7, 2016

"<font color="#6699ff">[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]Does anyone have a picture of the rope trip pull handle on a McCormick dump rake.[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</font>"

Reviewed the [b:654c4848f0]OWNER'S MANUAL[/b:654c4848f0] under the [i:654c4848f0]REMOTE CONTROL TRIP ATTACHMENT FOR 10, 11, 12, AMD 14 FT. RAKES (Special)[/i:654c4848f0] topic on page 24.

Take a look at the parts diagram below.

Note the trip lever extension (Ref. No. 4).

Page 15 discusses how to assemble the remote control trip attachment.

"<font color="#6699ff">[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]I want to pull some cut dead grass off of a meadow.[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</font>"

We purchased our <a href="https://youtu.be/osvyzXyy0p8">McCormick-Deering dump rake</a> for the same purpose.

Hope this helps.

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