Funny how it is easier to drive into a tight spot

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Then it to back out. Got the hitch on the rake fixed. Did a bit of welding on it and added a fish plate over where it broke. Also added a cross bar between the 2 frame rails. Due to the way things are at my shop and having one in the shop and one just out side I have to use my extra long welder cable to do the welding. But boy was it fun to back it back out into the filed since there was no way I was going to turn it around
 
Well it is with a hay rake hooked to a Case VAC. Now if ti was just a truck like my Diamond-T dump truck I have driven it a mile or so backwards on a job I once did
 
Backing a 4 wheel auto steer wagon full of bales around a corner then up against the barn. One shot, no retrys. (won 10 bucks that way) Jim
 
One of my cousins won a state fair backing contest years ago. I did not see him do it but saw a picture of it in a newspaper. Hay wagon type of thing 4 wheels like your talking about
 
If you are trying to do it with an old tractor with no power steering, yes, it can be a real test. My 730 Case with manual steering and a dozer blade hanging on the front and a worn out bushing in the steering column is a real workout to drive anywhere but a straight line.
 
Try it hooked to the baler. A lot depends on how fast the reverse is . Did that a couple times with the baler it's easier if you're backing down a hill but it's fun to look over to see some kid with his jaw down and tell him unhook it there just like you do it all the time. I think the worst tractor is a 2 cylinder john deere with a touchy clutch.
 
With a newer mfwd tractor it's sometimes easier to back a wagon hitched to the baler, the steering isn't fast enough to catch it hooked to the drawbar and you can't see the hitch.
 
Wide front tractor,car,pickup,you can drive a vehicle forward in to a space that you can't back it out of. I drove a tractor in by the wall of the toolshed one time and had a heck of a time sliding a tire with the brakes to get it weaseled around to get it out. Try it some time.
The guys on Car Talk were telling one time about driving in to an alley to jump start another car and having to jack up the back of their car several times and keep tipping the jack over sideways to get it out.
 
Guy I used to work with pulled a Kenworth with an about 48' 4 axle lowboy and a 2 axle jo dog hooked to the front for frost laws into a small parking lot and started a turn that couldn't be completed. He had it all messed up. He wasnt a farm boy though either, but he knew I was and came over and asked me to see if I could get it out. I can't back wagons like my dad can, but I got it out of there. He sure had that thing off kilter. Jo dog almost completely sideways one way, and low boy as tight on every corner to everything else in the lot as he could get it.
 
Does your rake have caster wheels in back? My old Deere rake has caster wheels in back and backing it is like trying to herd a chicken.
 
It s 5 bar 2 wheel rake with a jack on the front so when you unhook it it stays hitch high for the next time you hook up
 
I know you can back a tractor trailer semi into a hole at a dock that you can't pull it out of. Reason is when your backing up it pivots on the rear axle and when you drive forward it pivots on the front axle. Just enough sometimes that you can't make it.
 
It's the same way with the seed wagon hooked to a 4020. I wasn't the one that pulled it in right next to the wall. On the seed auger side. I must have gone forward and back 400 times before it was finally free. The whole time the dog sat there watching with a rather judgemental look on her face.
 
I chopped haylage for 25 years, countless times backed the wagon behind the chopper, at the corners, opening the field. hooked 3 wagons together a few times behind the chopper or baler on a farm 3 miles away, when I wanted to pull them home in one trip. Did it alone, but had extendable hitch poles on the haylage wagons, not the bale wagons. Oldest son won a wagon-backing contest at the county fair when he was a teen.
 
This Spring I got to experience backing up a flare box wagon with a 620. Tractor has worn out power steering, a 45 loader mounted on and a jumpy clutch. If the tractor wasn't moving there was no way to turn the steering wheel. The second time I just slipped the bucket into the wagon hitch.
 

Learned a couple of years back, if you can't see the front tires on a wiggle wagon in your mirrors... Then you are going to be there for a while.

Discover when I bought a dual rear wheel service box truck and by the time you saw a tire in the mirror, it was to late.

Built a front hitch that hooks in my snow plow bracket...
 

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