Dump rake in IH catalog

[Charlie M]

I came across a 1963 IH product catalog on u-tube tonight and it listed a steel wheeled dump rake. The video was a bit on the poor side for quality so I couldn't read the print for the rake. I would have thought dump rakes would have been long gone for along time prior to 1963.

 

[495man]

Some hung on the the old stuff well past shelf life, i.e. horse drawn stuff.

I think the only application of a tractor dump rake would have been stacking operations that used sweeps and hay stackers and not balers.

 

[Jim Becker]

You would think so. However, the last model, the Number 2 Tractor Rake, was built from 1960 through 1967. I never understood why anyone would use a dump rake any time after the side-delivery rake was invented. However, they were cheap. You could buy the widest (14 feet) for about half the price of a 3-bar side-delivery rake.

Edit to add: My dad did some custom baling. He refused jobs that were raked with a dump rake.

 

[Harold Hubbard]

Up until about 1990, we ran a dump rake over all of our hayfields after we baled. We could pick up about another 10% of “ scatterings”.