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[Spencer Yost]

Mainly for handling while off the tractor.  Can easily push/pull it by hand.   Rakes a little cleaner and more consistently with a dolly wheel it always seemed to me too.   While rakes can be pulled with lots of different power sources (i.e., 4x4s), this is even more true with rakes that have a dolly wheel.  Without any tongue weight, you can pull it with just anything with a hitch point 

One downside is that rakes with dolly wheels are nearly impossible to back up(think hay wagon but harder) but with a dolly wheel you can just push it into the barn by hand with hardly any effort.  So you don’t even really need to be able to back it up with a machine.

Spencer Yost

> On Jul 28, 2019, at 8:17 AM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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> Why do you prefer a dolly wheel? Not many around here had one.
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> John Hall
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>> On 7/28/2019 12:38 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>> Thanks Farmer.   As you suggest, I don’t think I’ll be doing that experiment.
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>> Anyways, after the last hay cutting you folks may remember that I had it with my current hay rake. I really wanted to try wheel rake but I just couldn’t find one locally that was in the right condition, size, price. So I got a John Deere side delivery rake.  There’s a retired guy about 45 minutes away from me who refurbishes hay rakes. That’s just his little hobby/sideline business. He’s super proud of his NH 256 rakes($$$$) so I have never bought from him but he posted this JD and it was priced a little better.  He replaces tires, bearings, broken tines etc and then sand blasts and paints.   I still probably paid too much ($1750 ) but it has a dolly wheel (a requirement for me for side delivery rakes) and turns with just a whisper .
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