I would not want to go with anything less than a 205 75R 15 for size, that will keep the real turning fast enough, small will make it turn faster and be turning it too fast and try to bust up the hay and rake instead of rolling it over. That looks like the detachable link drive chain that the earlier models had, not the roller chain later ones had. Yes it is a McCormick No. 5 rake and only one other number rake (forget right off model) had teeth that would fit, they are an odball tooth. And orignaly probably a lot of them had the 16" wheel that was prety much standard for years and the 6:00 X 16" tires that were use was fighred at 28" diameter and that 205 75 15 will be very close to that size. Our rake of the same style was a David Bradley with 6:00 x 16" smooth summer tread car tires and no slipping problems. Your biggest problem will be from putting on too small a tire and having to idle along in 3 gear in that C instead of being able to shift to 4th gear at a third throttle. As long as you are raking only swath mowed and laying hay you will be OK, just when you try to go over the top of the winrow to either turn for drying or to put 2 rows together to make a bigger row will you have problems as the front axle does not have enough clearance. That is why the one I have setting here will be parted out as because of that axle clearance they will not sell, dealer still has the one I rebuilt 2 years ago setting on his lot because of that. This one was bought just for that odball tooth to finish fixing up the other one. Now I could redrill the position of the holes that hold the teeth on to use a more common tooth that axle makes it not worth wile to do so. If it could be converted over to a high axle with a drive chain on each wheel then it could be a good rake. And keep matched tires on both sides so that the drive pawls in the wheels do not keep ratchiting all the time and one wheel doing all the pulling. And keep the tire pressure up to the 28 pounds that was called for in the operators instructions.
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