If you don"t have to cover a ton of acres, I would stick with the 5 bar rake. To get a later designed wheel rake that has good frame clearance and adjustment with the finger style wheels, you are probably gonna pay the same or more than you will for a nice 256.
The NHs are nice rakes but they do hold value. NI, AC,and JD all make decent 5 bars as well. I have a 4 bar JD 640 that I really cant tell the difference in the job it does than the NH 56 5 bar I had before it.
Wheel rakes really depend on the rake, tooth design, and adjustment. I had a 10 wheel batwing type rake. It worked OK in light/med hay. Hay would ball up like crazy in heavy hay. I had to carry a pitchfork with on the tractor. There really was no good adjustment either as far as digging into the ground.
The bigger pull cart type wheel rakes do a great job, but that would be a lot of overkill for what you are doing. BW
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