Thinking about trading rake's, advice needed?

With the inline you can rake as many swathes together as you want.

Now if you have a lot of sidehills drafting down hill is a problem.It would not be a problem with a V wheel rake.

I like my inline real well and it also has hyraulic lift.

Gary

For what it's worth use used a wheel rake for years until we bought an IH 35 bar rake three years ago and I think the wheel rake has only been used twice since then. For us most of the time the bar rake does a better job (rakes cleaner and makes a nicer windrow) and I don't miss changing rake teeth all the time. Last winter we bought a JD 700 twin rake (same thing as a Vermeer R-23) for big fields and it works better than the V rakes we've used but we still use our old single bar rake alot on smaller fields.

Now if I can just find a cheaper gear set for my IH 35 I'll be a happy man.

Jim

At the Hay Expo in Strawberry Point, Iowa last week several rakes were demoes. Each of the wheel rakes resulted in chunks of soil in the windrow, while the Vermeer hydraulic bar rake did not have the same occurance. The easy explanation is that the wheel rakes were not adjusted correctly, but that can not be the entire answer.

I would look at the type of customer you have and the time factore. If you are simply selling "brood cow" hay, then a wheel rake will produce the results you want.

Jim