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Eric

03-13-2002 05:52:38




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With regard to hay raking. The old horse drawn rake can be tractor drawn??? Furthermore, I assume you would "drag" and "dump" the grass after a drying period, but without moving it into a windrow would it ever dry enough?




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Sorry about all the posts! Matthew

03-14-2002 11:25:37




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:24:09




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends where you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.
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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:23:00




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends where you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.



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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:21:38




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends where you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.



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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:19:56




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends where you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.



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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:18:59




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends were you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.



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Matthew

03-14-2002 11:17:54




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Experience will be your only teacher on this one. With time you will know how long to leave it in the swath and when not to rake it. It all depends were you live and your climate. I can rake alfalfa right after I get done mowing the second cutting most of the time. Because it is usually very dry here in SD in July. It dries in no time.



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Charlie

03-13-2002 14:19:29




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
All I own for my 20 acres of hay are horse drawn side delivery rakes with their steel wheels. They are a little slower than a rubber tired rake - real slow on the road. I rake in a slow 4 th gear with my H. Many of those rakes will rake backwards to ted hay and thats how I used to do it. However they are old enough that tedding tends to tear them up. You can still buy tines for the more popular models such as New Idea, IH, etc.

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Harold Hubbard

03-13-2002 19:11:03




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 Re: Re: hay raking in reply to Charlie, 03-13-2002 14:19:29  
Even when those rakes were new, tedding would tear them up. Dad had an IH three bar rake on steel wheels, and every year he would break at least one bar while tedding with it. We used the rake for nearly twenty years after he got a tedder, and never broke another one.



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Farmer-Gene-WI

03-13-2002 07:09:13




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
Most of the horse drawn side delivery rakes and some of the older tractor drawn rakes had a lever that you could move and the rake turned backwards and fluffed the hay up without putting in into a windrow, helped the hay dry faster.



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Jerry S

03-13-2002 06:46:26




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 Re: hay raking in reply to Eric , 03-13-2002 05:52:38  
It is possible to pull a horse rake with a tractor but don't go very fast or you will tear up your rake. You also have to keep in mind your turning radius or you can break out your tongue. Horse rakes were of two kinds, dump and side delivery. Dump rakes would gather dried sickle cut hay into larger piles so to be loaded on a hay rack and put into a barn loose. Side delivery rakes were to windrow the hay much like a swather does now. Not sure how many horse side delivery rakes exist but probably not that many. I also imagine they were used to turn hay over if it got wet.

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