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F-20 and Hayrake Pic

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Ron in Nebr

09-15-2005 22:46:00




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After it's 4 year vacation waiting for me to do a valvejob on it, my F-20's finally getting to stretch her legs a bit.

She's in her working clothes yet, and probably will be for quite awhile, since in my opinion(and we all know what those are like) once you've seen one restored to factory condition the next restored one looks just about the same, but when you see them proudly showing all the wrinkles their long life has produced, each is unique and has a distinct personality that they've earned through the years....not saying at all that I don't appreciate a nice resto though!!!

As for the pic- For the past couple years I've been mowing the lawn(weeds) around some buildings on a place we bought with our Super A but had to just let the mown stuff lay there since it was too confined an area to get into with any of our "modern" equipment...but now with the F-20 going again I hooked up to our 12ft IH dump rake and drug the hay outta the yard to give the grass a chance next spring.

Theres a couple difffernt angles in the tractor photos section of the Galleries too for anyone who'd like a better view of what the Nebraska Sandhills look like this time of year...

Thought I might also add that in most of the old-time pics of our area there's usually 3 of these rakes hooked to each F-20/Regular for a total of 36ft give or take of raking width...two are always on homebuilt outriggers with another in the middle...I can scan and post some of these old pics if anyone's interested.....

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Tim Shaw

09-16-2005 20:12:29




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to Ron in Nebr, 09-15-2005 22:46:00  
Nice pic. The three rake hitches were replaced by the Rowse rakes when I started working in the hayfields. Granddad's first three rake hitch was mounted on a Ford model A with the body stripped off of it. I never saw it, just heard the stories.



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Josh H

09-16-2005 06:34:45




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to Ron in Nebr, 09-15-2005 22:46:00  
I like all old tractors, but my favorites are the ones in work clothes. I love seeing an old tractor at a show that was in the field the day before.



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Sloroll

09-16-2005 04:50:20




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to Ron in Nebr, 09-15-2005 22:46:00  
Looks like a 33? Nice ride. I took Ducky into town and back last week to a show, used her to buck some mulberry the last couple of days. I really enjoy that old F-20. I think it'll remain La'Natural too.



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Nebraska Cowman

09-16-2005 03:05:03




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to Ron in Nebr, 09-15-2005 22:46:00  
Hey, that's nice Ron. I always like to see tractors unrestored too. Fall is in the air here too and better think about getting ready for winter. I'll finnish up my haying today and then can start moving bales into the stackyards.



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SGT K

09-15-2005 23:46:58




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to Ron in Nebr, 09-15-2005 22:46:00  
That looks real fine. It almost looks like that photo could have been taken fifty years ago.

I have never used a dump rake. Do they work very well? It looks like they would leave a lot of hay in the field, especially if it was a little thin.
Paul



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Harold Hubbard

09-16-2005 05:54:16




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 Re: F-20 and Hayrake Pic in reply to SGT K, 09-15-2005 23:46:58  
Actually a dump rake will pick up pretty clean. I spent a lot of my teen age years hauling one over every bit of our hayfields after the baler, picking up "scatterings". It worked better if you ran across the original direction of mowing and raking. We usually expected to get another ten percent of yield that way, sometimes more sometimes less, depending on how clean the original raking and baling was. With today's fuel prices I am sure it wouldn't be worth it. It is a real good way to give some inexperienced driver a lot of practice, at something that can't be screwed up in any really expensive or harmful way.

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Rauville

09-16-2005 07:00:24




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 Re: New Idea Bull Rake? in reply to Harold Hubbard, 09-16-2005 05:54:16  
Have you ever seen one of the New Idea Bull Rakes, with the double opposed set of rotating teeth? As you trip the rake the teeth rotate 180 degrees so there is continued raking action.



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