Steering Wheels On A Hay Rake?

daynee · Mar 7, 2012

I been playing around outside and thought to myself would steering wheels work on a hay rake? So then, I got a pair of old JD steering wheels for my pile of steering wheels and kind of put them under the hitch as seen in the picture, It looks good ,but I have never seen steering wheels on a hay rake before. The hay rake is a "Deering". What do you guys think?

Thnaks for reading!!!

Janicholson · Mar 7, 2012

Dump rakes were horse powered from the get go. We used ours with tractors (it is still operational) when we scavenged down hay a,d some wind damaged wheat. The idea of putting the dolly under the front would only make it a disaster to back up. I also believe it might make it shorter to turn at the rake but wider to turn at the tractor, but is not necessary. Jim

Brian G. NY · Mar 7, 2012

Looks like an Amish set-up to me.
Why anyone would do this is beyond me.

rustred · Mar 7, 2012

trying to re invent the wheel,? just hook the pole to the tractor drawbar and get rid of them goofy things. those wheels would go under the hitch on a horse binder.

daynee · Mar 7, 2012

On the other hand, a horse drawn mower they would work on, I think there off a JD disk tho. I been thinking about how they would look on a rake for a while but never really had the time to try it until today.

johndeereman · Mar 7, 2012

Someone already beat you to that but these are bar rakes new holland had some I've also seen jd with them I'm sure others too we used our nh one with our double rake set up those dolly wheels let it trail the corners without missing a spot also raking with that rake alone let you take sharper corners without the tractor tire catching the rake.

showcrop · Mar 7, 2012

Good luck steering Gee if the horse wants to Haw!

rustred · Mar 8, 2012

wont work on the horse mower either. yes the horse disc's had them.

Leroy · Mar 8, 2012

No reason they would not have worked. They would have just taken a bit of the tong weight of the neck of the horses but that toung was not considered that heavy for the horses to carry so it was not done like a mower that has a lot of weight on the front for the horse to carry on their necks and make them tired. Now on a disk they are a nessity because the disk is a item that has to be run level to cut as front low the outside blades would be digging deeper while high they would not be cutting. and if the horse was taller than a anouther that made a difference in level of machine. On the hay rake the tooth height was adjustable to compensate for horse height.

Leroy · Mar 8, 2012

They all used a slight variation on the horse mowers and there is a new type being made for use now.

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