Muir hill 101
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Aynone have any experience with a belt rake ?
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flying belgian
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Might be alright. One advantage would be if it works better for flipping a windrow. Wheel driven the windows always land on its feet. I would have to see one work before buying.
Muir hill 101
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Im not really sure ? I watched a couple videos I was not impressed at all . Wondered if someone could say they used one I need a rake bad . Missed an auction on a Hesston rake that wouldve been perfect for ny operation.
Muir hill 101
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I found one pretty cheap by todays rake market standards anyway . Was hopping someone had some experience with them
Muir hill 101
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If you can find a good used rotary, that's the way to go. Some of those are getting pretty old. I bought a new Kuhn in 1987. I had one of the first ones around here. I got a lot of laughs until everybody saw the kind of job it did. I always said a chimpanzee could rake lawn clippings with one.
flying belgian
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I bought a new rotary last year. Kubota. Absolutely love it. Can get hay dry one day sooner. Thats why I'm thinking this belt rake should work the same. Never new they existed.
Muir hill 101
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My rolabar needs about 2000$ worth of parts and at the end of the day its a 55 year old rake with a frame thats been bent welded and patched together. I really dont like the idea of rebuilding it
Muir hill 101
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From the videos I seen it looks great on shorter grass hay but long stem stuff not so much . No alfalfa leaves here to worry about but I just dont think its the machine for me
Muir hill 101
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How will a rotary rake work in extra long stemmy crops ?
Excellent. Every sweep of an arm pulls the material apart and makes a little tent out of it for the air to get through. One mistake people make with those, and the manual tells this, keep the PTO speed down and ground speed up so they don't beat the crap out of the hay.
flying belgian
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Grandson and I just did a complete rebuild, repaint of a NH 55 rake. Takes about 700 dollars.
Muir hill 101
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Almost 600$ for tine bar bearings and a new driveshaft . To replace every bearing In it is about 2 grand Ive figured it every way I can anf all the yokes in the axle driveshaft are wore out they are about 90$ each with u joints . Might just replace the tine bar bearings and the driveshaft and s bunch of tines and the broken tine spider wheel which I have a new one of on my shelf and pray for the best and i still have a wore out rake but the options are getting thin
Muir hill 101
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The only two rotary rakes Ive ever seen were broke down in need of extremely expensive parts one was a duetz and the other I cant remember . I have looked at them a few times though probably just a bit more rake than I really need though
Mine's a 1987 Kuhn GT300. The only thing I've ever had to repair was the shaft for one of the arms. The kids hit a pole and broke it. It was so unbelievably cheap that I bought two. It's been in a box out in the shop for 30 years. Seems like it was some ridiculously low price like $11 or some such thing.
Muir hill 101
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I think Kuhn is the way to go on that kind of equipment . You should have bought 3 its probably a 500$ part now
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