wheel rake comparison

Ray IN

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Need some input on which style of hay rake. I want a double wide wheel type for speed and efficiency. I have found a
good used vermeer Y rake with the flip up wings, and the other choice is a hesston with the fold out type wings with a
tire on the end of each wing. I have used one of the hesstons before, and I liked it fine. But I have never used the
flip up type, which seems to be how all the newer wheel rakes are made. Is there any advantage to one type over the
other?
 
Can't do a comparison but I have a Kuhn wheel rake and a Kuhn disc mower and they both work great. I think Kuhn also makes John Deere's Frontier line of rakes and mowers. I have a Krone tedder and it also works great and is built very well. Either one of your choices would probably work fine but I prefer the wing lift type as they set and reset fairly fast during turns when raking fast.
 
Get a Kuhn. I have one that is going on 12 years old. Rake as fast as the ground will allow. Never put a tooth in it yet.
 
I decided on the carted style, and bought this Khun last year, works great. I had the chance to demo a rake of the other style which opens out, with the wheel on the end, while it rake well, the castering front wheels would go into a "speed wobble " at road speed. Also have a neighbour with one, and the front wheel snapped off , when it dropped into a hole while raking. Just too many extra moving parts for me.
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I have the Hesston and like it. Yup you could have a problem if you run it into a chuck hole. I have not done that yet. Though have had it for about 10 years. I like it as you can pin one side and rake with just one side for a single if needed. I don't know if you can do that with the carted ones.
 

I've owned a H&S Hi-cap 14 wheel rake since I bought it new in '02. It's raked 1000's upon 1000 of acres. 2 advantages of a bi-fold rake is one can change raking width from one 9' ft swath to two 9' swathes to three 9' swathes with my rake just by moving tractor hyd control lever. I can change windrow width by turning a crank at the rear. Plus my raking wheels face unraked hay which allows it rake thicker hay because the frame doesn't interfere with heavy hay flow. My rakes frt castor wheels have brakes to keep frt wheel assembly from shimmying at road transport speed.[/url]
 
Bruce how does the carted style do in heavy hay? Looking at switching to a wheel rake next year and not sure if a carted style will rake 3+ ton to the acre hay without wading hay up between the rake wheels and the frame/tires.
 

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