Posted by Ron in Nebr on June 25, 2015 at 18:50:25 from (199.47.65.59):
In Reply to: Antique hay rakes posted by WIZZO on June 25, 2015 at 05:51:33:
Don't recognize that model, but the one in Pair-A-Dice Farm's pic below is an IHC rake dump rake. The folks here in the Nebraska Sandhills who still stack hay rather than bale it still use similar rakes, but they can be up to 46 foot long and hydraulically dumped. The older horsedrawn versions were mechanically dumped- a foot pedal or lever was pressed(or pulled) and cogs in the wheel hubs would lift the teeth to dump the hay. It was and is an art to make straight windrows using these.
I pulled a 46 foot dump rake behind a super H farmall when I was 10 years old. I raked all our meadows after the bar-mowed hay had dried. Put it into windrows that the sweeps would push to the stacker. Some outfits ran two similar rakes- a "straight rake" that did the initial raking, and a "scatter rake", that went behind and picked up anything left over and put it in windrows. Other places, like ours, used the same rake for both purposes.
Initially, these were pulled by one or two horses, with the operator sitting on the seat. As tractors came into use, it was common around here to see an F-20 fitted up with 3 twelve-foot rakes- one directly behind and two on either side on homebuilt "outriggers". That was normal until the late 50's when the custom-built larger hydraulic rakes started to show up. A popular brand here in Nebraska was a "Valley" rake....36 foot wide, and the two outer sections would fold up hydraulically to go through gates, etc.
We round bale now, but still keep a 36 foot dump rake around, and use it occasionally to pull hay out of low ground after rainstorms.
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