Listed an auction with a J.D. rake

Keith Molden

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I listed an auction today and they have a New Holland 66 baler that came out with a Wisconsin engine but was converted to PTO. And there sitting in the building was a John Deer 4 bar rake that the only marks we could find on it was JD G342E I'm not sure if it's the model number or the part number. It has 15" tires on front and smaller (I believe) 12" on the back. It looks like it will work. Just wondering if anyone could give me some insight on this baler.
 
That may very well be what they are, I couldn't get to them to look. Do you by chance remember what the model was/
 

G342E is key 22 so rake was probably built after '49

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594LW and as a rake they are good. Has 9" wheels on the back, Earlier were 16" front with later 15". The problem with them is that they are rake only with no tedder like the New Idea of that same time frame. One problem with the Deere is the stripper bars are spaced 12" apart as against all other makes and models that are 8" apart. That rake gould have had the extra bars added but not likely. With the bars that far apart on short like 3rd cutting alfalfa and on a windy day it likes to instead of putting the hay in the row pull it into the center of the real. I have one setting here right now that I bought with everything stuck. Not sure if I will rebuild it or use it for parts as I can put the 4 bar real over into a good frame 593 3 bar to make them worth a lot more and easier for them to be sold 594 id model with the large steel wheels and 594LW is just the low wheel version of that rake. Keith, you have said before you are in Ohio and I am in Ohio and if within reasonable driving distance I tray to find every one of those rakes that I can for my Amish friends. Keith email me, am opening my email. And for the baler they were out for one year before Dad bought a new one with that engine and we did a lot of baling with it, some custom, That PTO will loose capacity but as people do not seen to like the engine they will pay more for a PTO conversion than the engine unless it happens to be somebody that does not have a tractor big enough to pull the baler. The most we ever put thru that baler in one day was a thousand bales. Like I said email me as I might like to get to that sale.
 

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