Hay Rake

UP Oliver · Aug 25, 2013

Can anyone tell me what make this rake is?

Thanks.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 25, 2013

#5 International Harvestor

Leroy · Aug 25, 2013

No. 5 McCormick and I have one setting here I am going to part out. That low axle cutts the value of them way down as hard to rake a second round together without draging under the axle. Last year bought one was just going to take the real out for use in the 4 bar enclosed gear tractor rake on high steel but my rake buyer decided to have it fixed up. So this spring I bought a second one just to get enough teeth to finnish the first one and I will keep the real for possible later use like I had planed the first one. But if I do that I will modify it to take a common tooth. Not the oddball that is on them.

chevytaHOE5674 · Aug 25, 2013

Yep No.5 IH/McCormick. Have one sitting in the weeds someplace place here its about the most useless hunk of scrap iron around. As said the low axle is perfect for dragging and clumping up hay and the crazy dolly wheels makes raking corners or odd fields a real treat. Only reason I keep it around is it isn't worth anything to sell and in a pinch it will put hay in a windrow that may not be pretty or perfect but will allow you to bale it...

Leroy · Aug 26, 2013

If they would have raised the front axle to normal pull type or steel wheel rakes it would have been a good rake with the gear speed between the wheels and axle instead of putting it after the gear box. If I could figure out a way to make that conversion then the one I have here now and figuring to part out and the one I redid last year for him that hasen't sold because of that axle I would do it to both. I have a place to go with any and all steel wheel rakes in working condition as long as styled for as to be able to work and that low axle was not styled to work. It is only good for raking just a flat mower swath but not for putting 2 together or rolling a swath to dry out. That one last year was one of a dozen I delievered and This year have lost count how many I have done over.

chevytaHOE5674 · Aug 26, 2013

I'm sure at the time the rake was built it got the job done when mowing was done with a sickle mower and the crop laid flat on the ground. But raking behind a mower conditioner that lays the crop in a taller swatch the old rake just doesn't have the clearance to move the hay.

Now a days their are much better options for a hay rake than an old bar rake.

UP Oliver · Aug 26, 2013

Thanks for the responses.

I purchased other equipment from a guy and he threw this in the mix for basically nothing. I had no idea if it would work or not, but now that I have it here I think it will be a decent backup for me.

The axle is a little bit more than an inch lower than the framework that holds my drawbar. And I don't have high yield hay fields right now so by the time the hay sits for a day or two before being raked it is laying pretty low.

I'll see how it works next summer.

Thanks again.

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