rake ID

steve19438 · Jun 7, 2015

this rake was my dad's. any one know it's name (other than rake) and what it's intended purpose was/is?
thanks.

60 acre hillside · Jun 7, 2015

It looks like some WW2 garden tool that was made during a material shortage

Dick2 · Jun 7, 2015

I've never seen that one before, but I would hazard a guess that it could be used to rake down ear corn.

ztrmower · Jun 7, 2015

NO that is not a rake used for ear corn,i used those for years when i ran a corn sheller for a fellow,corn rakes and power corn rake augers, they would be outlawed now days. those rakes had long teeth on them. lot longer than the old heavy lawn rakes to, need to go measure still have hanging in shed,6 to 8 inches long teeth guessing.

Charles in Aus. · Jun 7, 2015

My old Uncle used a very similar one for seed beds , mainly lettuces . Lettuce seeds are so fine they really only need raking in a little , hence the short teeth . Once the seeds were covered he would turn the head over and use the curved profile to smooth and press the surface .

steve19438 · Jun 7, 2015

a magnet sticks to it.

schrade · Jun 7, 2015

the ear corn rakes I have used looked like a fork bend to 90 degrees

Dusty MI · Jun 8, 2015

(quoted from post at 19:53:17 06/07/15) the ear corn rakes I have used looked like a fork bend to 90 degrees

That bent pitch fork was used around here, was for unloading chopper wagons with false end gates. This was before the self unloading wagons.

OliLt · Jun 8, 2015

My parents hade a rake like the one shown, as did several neighbors. They were referred to as "crab grass" rakes. I never used it, but remember it being used on the lawn. What ever it accumulated was picked up and removed to a pile of yard waste. This was in the mid to late 50"s.

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