I couldn't help myself....

Samuels68 · Aug 28, 2013

It just begged me to take it home! Anybody have any idea what model or how old this rake may be? Seller told me it was a McCormick-Deering but didn't have any other info other than saying it was the smoothest trailing rake he had ever owned. Definitely not smooth trailing now, but wife wants to plant it in the yard with flowers around it or something. Just curious if anybody knew anything about these rakes...

Bruce from Can. · Aug 28, 2013

Used to be a lot of those old rakes around. They worked not too bad, but were built to go at horse speed. When folks hooked them to a tractor , and tore off at 7 or8 mph,well things went bad. very common to have one or both the big drive wheels bent from taking corners at a high speed. Bruce

Samuels68 · Aug 28, 2013

Bruce,
I can see why, both are slightly bent on this one, probably more so after trying to load it with the sellers' "loader tractor" that was about the size of my lawn mower! I also noticed the tongue doesn't pivot. It is fixed in place. Maybe the thought is that would pivot the tail end?

VicS · Aug 28, 2013

I pulled one of those with a 8N Ford when I was a
kid. Dad thought it twisted the hay when pulled at
tractor speeds.

Paul from MI · Aug 28, 2013

Looks like that one is pretty bent up. I still use a John Deere #594 and it does a good job, but don't be in a hurry with it.

ChasK · Aug 28, 2013

Is that the one that was sitting at the lower end of Ebby's Mill Rd? I remember that front wheel they bent when it got shoved to the corner. I tried to by it from the previous owner of the place maybe 8 years ago....

uncle henry · Aug 28, 2013

i know where about 15 are in one place four or five
different brands one has open gears if you need some
more

Samuels68 · Aug 28, 2013

ChasK,
No, this one was outside Sherrard, IL (south of the Quad Cities about 10 miles). Seller was 87 years old, only asking $150, and offered me some teeth of another similar rake if I wanted them. Other one was rougher than this one, with the one front wheel crushed almost to the axle. That old boy helped us load it (from the tractor seat) in a flannel shirt at 3 pm today! I was soaked through my t-shirt by the time I got out of the truck!

Jess

Samuels68 · Aug 28, 2013

Uncle Henry,
No more! Just one to satisfy the wife and her old machinery/landscaping need!
(apparently none of my old junk behind the barn is "old enough")
Thanks anyway though

Jess

JMS/.MN · Aug 29, 2013

We have 3 small "yard arts". One sickle mower, a walking plow, and the lighted flagpole with US and POW flags on it. Each is sitting in an oval made of landscape blocks, filled with crushed rock over poly sheeting to eliminate weeds. Each oval disguises 1-2 ends of the septic drain tiles as well. Large item like a hay rake, I sure wouldn"t want to move every time she mows.

JRSutton · Aug 29, 2013

hard to tell from that angle, but I don't think it's a mccormick deering, a few things don't look right (like that cover over the gears - never seen on before). I could easily be wrong.

Not sure what it is - but Leroy in implement alley would probably know.

Haven't used a 3 bar myself, but we've got a later model 4 bar mccormick deering, and that I have to say is a pleasure to use. Very quiet, smooth, and scrubs every last bit of loose hay off the ground.

It's my preferred rake for small fields where speed isn't a major concern. My 4H club kids restored it - fun project, great introduction for them to welding and straightening bent metal! Ours was a hopless mass of rust, and twisted like a corkscrew. Looks brand new now.

Samuels68 · Aug 29, 2013

JMS,
We have a concrete pad that sits in the middle of our yard. It is about 8x16. It was a patio for a mobile home that sat there when the previous owners oldest son first got married. Why they poured concrete instead of building a wood deck I don't know, but the rake should fit quite nicely. I also would like to put up a flagpole in that vicinity. I have a 30 footer laying by the barn, just havent got it put up yet.

Jess

Leroy · Aug 29, 2013

NO, I do not know. Hard to tell for sure what it looks like. more pictures might be able to identify. That looks like the cover for a gas grill on there but I think I have seen a picture of something simular probably on here. The disk back wheels look like McCormic but then the Sandwich rake that later became New Idea also used that type of wheel. Need pictures.

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