rotory rake

[ohio dick]

Does any one had good or bad to say i am looking for new rake.replacing NH 55.

 

[JayinNY]

My fil bought a Peqeua rotary rake, he seems to like it, said it does a better job than his NH 56 did, he does say it makes a heavier windrow, I dont know about that, but maybe.

 

[Larry NEIL]

Never used one, but those guys are pricy son of a guns!

 

[acken fromwisc]

Best thing to do is try some of them. Depends if you have wide swaths, you might like a pto rake, or you would like the wheel rake, which can rake two 14' swaths togeather.

 

[retired farmer]

My boss bought a CLAAS rotary pto driven. Excellent rake, only turns one windrow at a time.

 

[Wheat Farmer]

My rake work great. Make what ever size of windrow you want with the change of one pin. Can blow a windrow back up if it won't dry. And it works with Green or Red.

 

[Bob N.Y.]

I have raked with a couple of them. They make a really nice windrow without winding the hay into a rope.

 

[old harv]

I have an older Kuhn with 2 rotors that rakes about 10 feet wide. It works great and makes a big fluffy windrow that dries fast. BUT it is awful to fix. Get a single rotor one like in the pictures on this post, less moving parts to wear out. If you are buying used check the wear inside the gearbox that controls the arms. Each arm has a roller bearing inside that runs in a track that looks like a little roller coaster to make the arms pivot so they drop the hay. Mine wore through soon after I bought it, guy that traded it knew what he was doing. I spent about $800 on parts and 30 hours work to fix it. Rakes hay nice though, you can go up to about 12 -14 miles an hour if your fields are smooth enough. One other word of caution, on hilly ground and oddly shaped fields they don't follow the ground nicely, a bar rake does a better job then.

 

[showcrop]

I have tried them twice. Due to small fields, highly varying in moisture fields, and unevenly shaped fields, I have, in eleven fields, 26 "middles". My rollabar rake handles the the tight turns in the middles a whole lot better than the rotary so I have stuck with the rollabar.

 

[Down under farmer]

we have a potinger works great and quick leaves nice fluffy windrows. One own fall is in dry luceran does tend to blow away more easily in wirly winds. have to start raking sooner than rollerbar or will shatter leaf. I really like it in cereal hay and forage sorghum wont go back to a rollerbar

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I mow with a 12' Haybine and lay the hay out in a ~8' wide swatch then I go through and rake it up with my bar rake, which leaves the hay in a rope with the greenest stuff usually on the bottom. Then I find myself having to flip the windrows over before baling to get the bottom dried out.

Been looking for a rotary rake to try for over a year now that isn't used and abused and on its last leg. Hoping that I can get away with just going through and raking once and getting a nice fluffy windrow that will dry down good without having to be re-raked.

 

[JayinNY]

Why don't you get a Tedder? I Ted than rake with a rollbar
rake!

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I've thought about a tedder but most of the Kuhn rotary rakes will ted if you lift up the windrow "curtain". Then you have a rake and tedder in one piece of equipment.

 

[Dave Sherburne NY]

Fella I drive for had a 2 rotor Kuhn said he would never have another but he did. Second one was worse than the first. Towards the end you could count on it breaking every day. They were both bought used Just to many parts to go wrong maybe that was why arms would come off so often Now he has a new double rotor Pottinger.

 

[ohio dick]

found a peqa single rotor about 6 grand or a krone at 10 gs new holland about 8

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 19:07:47 12/24/12) I mow with a 12' Haybine and lay the hay out in a ~8' wide swatch then I go through and rake it up with my bar rake, which leaves the hay in a rope with the greenest stuff usually on the bottom. Then I find myself having to flip the windrows over before baling to get the bottom dried out.

Been looking for a rotary rake to try for over a year now that isn't used and abused and on its last leg. Hoping that I can get away with just going through and raking once and getting a nice fluffy windrow that will dry down good without having to be re-raked.

Where are you located? I know from this forum that in the west and southwest you can just mow then rake. Here in the northeast where Jay and I are the ground is usually so wet that you have to mow into a three foot swath to let the ground dry then tedd at least twice before raking.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

(quoted from post at 05:26:22 12/25/12) Where are you located? I know from this forum that in the west and southwest you can just mow then rake. Here in the northeast where Jay and I are the ground is usually so wet that you have to mow into a three foot swath to let the ground dry then tedd at least twice before raking.

I am in the UP of Michigan and our ground is usually very wet and we usually have very humid weather. I've tried dumping the hay into a narrow windrow but don't have a tedder so it becomes a challenge to try and move the hay with only a bar rake. I've been thinking that if I had a rotary rake I could mow into a narrow windrow and let the ground dry out then lift the curtain on the rake and use it to spread the hay back out to dry, then come back and rake it up into doubled windrows for baling...

Most others around me just use their bar rakes to flip the windrows once or twice then bale it up. Another guy uses a NH166 hay inverter to flip the windrows once then bale.

Not really sure which direction I want to go. And its hard to know weather it will work or not unless I buy the equipment.....

 

[RodinNS]

Get a single rotor Kuhn. Have had one for 7-8 seasons now and the most serious problem has been one flat tire this past year.
IN my opinion, Pequea makes one that is perhaps best described as the Kuhn's illigetiment second cousin...
A Class Liner would be in the same class as Kuhn.
Whatever you do, stay far away from the 2 basket NewHolland 254/255 tedder/rake combo. It will break you in repairs.

I'd also not suggest that a single rotor Kuhn with the deflector raised is in any way a tedder. It's still a rake that leaves a wide messy row if you use it like that. A tedder does a different job...

Rod