Re: Wheel Rake Advice

Posted by Bruce from Can. on May 20, 2018 at 03:27:55 from (74.12.68.226):

In Reply to: Wheel Rake Advice posted by Bryce Frazier on May 19, 2018 at 18:48:37:

Hi Bryce, when I was a little guy, back in the 60’s, I remember well many farmers had a front mounted two wheel rake as you describe. These where often front mounted on to old tractors that didn’t have a three point hitch, like a IH H, M or maybe a Massey Harris 33 . The primary job for these rake was used as a swath turner. Much of the grain here was still swathed at that time, and if it was rained on , it needed to be turned ove to get the underside dry. These two wheel rakes did a wonderful job at turning widrows up side down. They could also be used to rake hay, but being only two wheels, they didn’t move the hay very far. I have been on the hunt for a frontmount windrow turner for several years now with no luck. Funny how some thing that once was so common, is now rare. I did fined a 3 pth two wheel swath turner, and while it does the job . Your front mounted unit is better because you don’t have to drive on top of the crop before the rake hits it. I believe that some of the reasons the front mounted window turner fell out of fashion was because folks went more to direct cutting grain, after more farmers adopted the wide spread use of herbicides to control weeds in grain. Before spraying, if there was too many green weeds/hay/grass coming up in your grain crop, it would plug the cylinder on the combine. So if the grain was swathed for say 5-7 days before you ran it through the combine, all the green stuff was then dry enough to go through and not plug things up. And of coarse many retired the old tractors and the front mounted rake was awkward to put on and off. Bruce

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