Worth a$100

[sleepy1]

Saw this yesterday, thought it would be a good starter rake for my grandson.Mechanically sound,need some teeth and a belt.

 

[Hayfarmer]

Saw this yesterday, thought it would be a good starter rake for my grandson.Mechanically sound,need some teeth and a belt.

It is a JD 350 rake. I have one like it and it is a good rake. Thing to look at would be gearbox where PTO hooks up and transfers power to belt. They sell for $600 plus in my area when working.

 

[DanielW]

Don't be afraid to lift frequently over rough ground and stones. Good rakes (as far as rolabar rakes go), but one of the problems with mounted bar rakes is that there's no counter balance mechanism. With pull-types, there's always a spring counterbalance/float mechanism to take some of the basket weight, so when you hit a rock/bump only a fraction of the basket weight takes the impact. With a mounted rake you have the full weight of the basket and frame smashing and crashing into every lump/bump.

 

[560Dennis]

Frame is all welded up. What were they doing with it ? , jumping ditches ?

 

[Briar Hill Brittanys]

I got one for $80.00 as a project. Thought it might be handy for a couple of the small fields I was haying at the time. Its frame has several welded repairs but could be serviceable with a modicum of effort.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Depends on how much you want to put into it. The frame is poorly welded behind the hitch & a tine bar is completely missing.

Looks beat to death to me.

Mike

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Depends on how much you want to put into it. The frame is poorly welded behind the hitch & a tine bar is completely missing.

Looks beat to death to me.

Mike

Not missing a tine bar. It has 5, but the "stars" are drilled for 4 or 5 bars, so there are extra holes. It may have been configured as a 4-bar rake at one time.

Unless the seller has the front half of the PTO shaft, that appears to be missing.

A big plus is that it uses common, relatively inexpensive, rubber teeth. Every farm store has them on the shelf here in the US for about $3 a piece.

a$100 is $65 US with today's exchange rate. I don't think you can go wrong.

 

[Kelly in tx]

Yes, worth $100. A pto rake can be lifted by the tractor's three point. In that way it can be used for some very dense/heavy hay. I have an old Ford 505??? that is pto and it has saved my neck a couple of times. It has steel teeth. I have and mostly use an old J D 670 - a pull type. In a dry year when you're virtually raking the ground to get that tiny short grass to make hay, it'll eat A LOT of those $3 teeth! For newer style J D rakes I understand there is an "adapter" to use steel teeth. Wish I knew of an adapter for the rubber teeth of this rake and the one I have. Good luck.

 

[showcrop]

I had a three point rake for a short time. It made my corners sharper. I wanted my corners more rounded for following with the baler.

 

[sleepy1]

He got for $75 it's going to be a project for him in shop class.

 

[AlabamaDan]

I love that not only is he getting his own rake, but that he's taking shop! I hate to hear of schools eliminating shop and home ec.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

At first glance I thought it was a Ford 503 like mine but with the stripper missing. The rest is very similar. The trick to making a good corner is to steer gradually into the turn a little earlier than with a trailing rake, then gradually out again. Took me years to get this right. If you turn sharp it will sweep all the hay around and leave a large pile when you straighten out.