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Re: What's he doing?
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Posted by Eldon (WA) on January 10, 2004 at 17:29:02 from (209.240.205.61):
In Reply to: What's he doing? posted by Lincoln on January 10, 2004 at 08:46:03:
The rake is a large hydraulic trip dump rake used mainly for putting up praire hay nowadays. When I was a kid growing up in south cental South Dakota we used similar rakes (maybe only 14 or 15 feet wide) with a rope to dump them. most had been converted from horse drawn rakes and still had a seat on them. They don't make a very good windrow for baling, so were mainly used when stacking loose hay. Some people used cages to make a perfect haystack, we just guessed at our own piles. We had a B JD that had a high speed reverse and a hay basket (sweep) on the front to buck the windrows into small piles. When all the hay was bucked, my dad would use a hydraulic loader on an AC WD45D to stack the hay with a 12' hay basket on the front with hydraulic push-off to push the hay off the 10 foot long teeth. The B with the sweep was used to bring in the bucks of hay closer to the stack. That's where the hi speed reverse came in. When going in reverse, you never had to lift the sweep off the ground and didn't have to worry about running the teeth into the ground if you hit a ditch.
Many ranchers in the praire states still use double sickle mowers and these large rakes and put up loose hay in large stack. Then in the fall they use big hay sleds that back under the stacks and haul them to a storage/feeding area.
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