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Horse drawn hay rake?

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Anonymous-0

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Hey folks,
wife and I raked about 5 acres of hay with wooden rakes this summer because the rake (modern tractor drawn) I had laid on was needed at the last minute. Anyway, I was cleaning up around a piece of pasture that we just rented and found a horse drawn rake that seems to be intact and pretty solid. How did these things work? Is it something that I could clean up and, in a pinch, use with my ATV to rake hay?

Just brainstorming, may be able to preserve a little history in the process.

Thanks, Dave
 
Is it a "dump" rake?

By that I mean a rake that has a long row of curved tines maybe 3' high between tall end wheels. There would be a foot pedal to engage a mechanism in one of the wheels to raise the tines momentarily and then drop them again.

The way it would be used would with a rider. The rake would be pulled with the tines on the ground until a "load" was accumulated, then the foot pedal would be actuated to lift the tines and dump the load. By going back and forth across the field and dumping in the same places every time windrows would be created across the field.
 
That's the one, and you just talked me out of it. Sure you'll be on my wife's Christmas list now :).

Thanks, Dave
 
gee, Dave, you and yer wife could take turns pulling it around, and the other person coud set on the seat and rest a while!
My Grand-dad had one on his farm. He used a team to pull it around, and it did a good job of raking. That was back in the thirties, when farmers hadn't yet got out of the Depression time!
 
(quoted from post at 19:14:08 10/23/08) gee, Dave, you and yer wife could take turns pulling it around,
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Good idea! I'll run that by her right away. You got a spare room at your place?
 
They are called Bull rakes out here and the one grampa had, had lever that you pulled to dump it. We must have been to poor to get an auto dump one.
Walt
 
my grandad had one of those .we knew it as a dump rake later on my dad used it behind his H farmall and i would ride the rake to trip it that was around 1978
 
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