three point wheel rakes

[jim wissenburg]

Does anyone have any experiance using 3 point wheel rakes? I have seen how the big v rakes work-look prety good but I dont need any thing that big. A 4 wheel 3 point would be the right but I have been told they dont work near as well as the big ones. Any coments?

 

[old]

I have one I use off and on at times. I would use it more but since the tractor that I use it on most has to do loader duty I have switched back to a 5 bar rake. The wheel rake works real good just need more weight on my loader tractor so I use the other type more
Hobby farm

 

[keh]

I had a 5 wheel 3ph rake. Did a fine job raking. However, I have some uneven fields and the 3ph rake did not float very well, causing it to break a lot of rake teeth. I have a 10 wheel v rake on wheels now which I like much better.

KEH

 

[RayP(MI)]

Farmer renting our farm had one - 3pt version. Spent a lot of time bouncing along the ground, leaving hay.

 

[paul]

Works good for: long straight lighter windrows.

Rough ground, like along the water or raod ditches.

Cornstalks.

Doesn't work well for: Windy days. Heavy windrows. Curves. Corners.

I'm glad I have it, I'm real glad I kept my 55 NH rollabar, which I probably use more than the wheel rake.

--->Paul

 

[TGIN]

Had to buy some sq bales this yr. Got them from 2 differant guys that use wheel rake`s and there all full of sticks and other debre , not a stick here and there , ya have to clean all the trash out of the trough every day . I wont buy hay that`s been baled behind a wheel rake again less that`s all there is .

 

[Anonymous-0]

I think tha 2 differant Guys put those sticks in there? LOL! dan.

 

[Anonymous-0]

My father uses one and likes it...you need to go on straight line as much as possible. He likes it because it picks up all the hay (however makes dirtier hay as mentioned below...but if you are baling for your own cows you want as much volume as possible) where a roller bar rake leaves more hay on the ground. Don't get me wrong we still have roller bar rake and it gets used on small fields...works better on corners.
Reaver

 

[Don-Wi]

Part of that is the location of the feild- I'm guessing they were near a woods.

We use a 5 wheel rake and it will pick up trash, but there isn't that much in our feilds to start with so it doesn't pose a problem for us. It does pick up corn stalks and the like if it was a corn feild the year before, but after that one time most of that is gone. Cows eat all of it up, so there really isn't much to clean out after they go out.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[Anonymous-0]

Its not the rakes fault if there is trash and sticks in the hay. Any good rake is going to rake up what is in a mans field no matter if its a wheel rake. I have used a 4 wheel 3pt. I-Cam rake made in Italy for 20 years with no problems except on turns. You have to compensate a little and turns can be made.

 

[jim wissenburg]

Thanks for all the info.All my hay ground is clean so i dont have much of a trash problem.Seems like a 3point would do what I want and a lot cheaper than a big v rake. I stll have the old New Holland for back up.