[AT] Question on a hay Rake

[Larry Goss]

I don't know what you're raking, Charlie, but in my limited experience, once you started raking you didn't have to touch the adjustment levers until the whole field was done and you wanted extra ground clearance during transport.  If you "did it right", the whole hay field was one continuous counter-clockwise spiral with a clear swath from the center to one corner when you left the field.  And then we'd find out that the neighbors were going to bale it with their McCormick-Deering baler and we'd have to head out with pitchforks to turn the spiral the other way.  Dad wouldn't let us rake it as a clockwise spiral -- the right turn was too hard on the equipment.  That was a major consideration when all the equipment we had was old and had been resurrected from a scrap heap at a farm sale. 

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Date: Monday, April 5, 2010 10:54
Subject: Re: [AT] Question on a hay Rake
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Regardless if it is pulled by mules, horses or tractors.  
> Someone has to 
> pull the levers to control the rake and they can't be reached 
> from most 
> tractor seats.
> 
> Charlie
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> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
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> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Question on a hay Rake
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> 
> > Indiana Robinson wrote:
> >> The seat looks completely out of place for three reasons. One 
> is that
> >> it is obviously a late 1940's - early 1050's vintage rake and 
> horses>> were gone from here by then. Two, is the nosebleed 
> height of the seat
> >> which borders on silly and three, is that NONE of the 
> controls are
> >> where they can be operated from the seat. That seat spring 
> looks more
> >> like one off of a sickle mower. The rake looks more like a farmer
> >> conversion from tractor rake to horse rake than a horse rake 
> converted>> to tractor use. It may also have just been added for 
> a passenger
> >> (dangerous).
> >> A few things about it look like Co-op, a few like New Idea 
> and a few
> >> like David Bradley. Gene must be right. It must be IHC. :-) 
> Everybody>> copied IHC.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > The seat is in the stowed position. The original tongue would have
> > dropped down then the seat flipped up/back into position. Then the
> > person driving the horses sits between the control handles.
> >
> > This how it would look
> > http://rjoauction.com/sitebuilderImages/hd%20jd%20hay%20rake.jpg
> >
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