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SVcummins

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The old 56 is on its very last leg and it takes forever to roll 6 rows together to make a windrow big enough for my big baler . Traded for an old new holland 216 need the one hinge rebuilt other than that its in fair shape its had some repair to it but its been done right
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what tractor will you pull this double with? here in west Missouri, we don't see that
NH setup. we still use a 660 jd, and NH 260 setup behind our 660 Oliver.
That will take some hyd pressure to make it run? GG
 
Whoa, moving from a 56 to 216 is like going from a bicycle to a honda accord. You will be doing backflips if it works out for you. Wish I could tell you if those rakes are any good or not, but cant. In my neck of the woods anyone willing to write a check for one of those will opt for a rotary rake.
 
I still have it . I traded a clutch job in a 5020 for the 216 . Everything is plumb wore out on the 56 but it still turns hay its just extremely slow when you have to rake between midnight and work in the morning I enjoy pulling but then you have to rake everything 4 times to get it together. I have a new star wheel for the 56 and it needs a new drive shaft from the wheels to the gearbox I had to cut the hitch off and weld a new piece on because the guy I got it from cobbled it up so bad but Ill keep it around .

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You're going to love that rake. Talked another friend of mine into buying one. Thought he was going to divorce his wife he spent so much time raking that he was never home.
 
I have pulled this very same rake behind a 5020 for many many many hot hot hot hours the 3020 didnt have enough wait to handle it on the big hills . They are an awesome rake there isnt much it wont turn .
 
So what are you going to do with this rake when you need to rake 6 together to make a big enough windrow for the big baler? Depending on the width of your mower the best this will do is three.

These triple windrow will be 4 windrow widths from the next raked-up windrow. Too far apart to combine with your V-rake without running around and around and around pushing them toward each other with one side of the rake.

V-rakes are nice as long as you don't need to make windrows wider than what the rake can do in a single swipe. Anything more ends up taking longer than doing it with a single rake.

That's the nice thing about tandem 258's. You can make the windrows as wide as you want, and there is no wasted motion. Need two, rake two. Need four, rake two one way and two the other. Need six, two one way and one the other. Always raking full width and making progress, not slowly poking the windrows around with wasted half-passes.
 
I spent many days as a kid leading a model 56 around with an Oliver 77. There's a ton of NH rakes here in central NY, but I've never seen a 216. Looks nice - does it make as fluffy a windrow as a rotary? May not matter in your climate
 
I like wheel rakes too but couldnt find one and there is nothing a hydraulic rake wont turn that Ive found .
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