Front mount 2 wheel rakes.

Bruce from Can. · Aug 13, 2015

Ok you old boys must remember those front mount 2 wheel rakes that were so common back in 50's and 60's. They were built to turn swathed grain, more than to rake hay. I have been trying to find one, without much luck. 8 or ten years ago it seemed like there was one on every auction. But I guess they must have all wheeled off to scrap. Anyone have a picture of one on the front of a tractor. I can still buy a brand new 3pth model but I don't think it will turn grain swaths the same as a front mount will, as you have to drive over the swath.

casecollectorsc · Aug 13, 2015

Doesn't help much, but Dad and Grandpa had one in the 60s. Flipped wet windrows and put flax back in a row after a wind.
I built a cart and a five belt combine pickup mounted on an angle to lift windrows and fluff them.
Mounted it on a angle to move the windrow over to drier ground and stubble. Couple hours on a windy day made a lot of difference.
Posted on the combine forum that the neighbors were running oats swaths thru their round balers with the gate locked up.

crooked rows · Aug 13, 2015

if you do a search for farmhand windrow turners you will find some images.....plus it looks like some other companies may still be making them

Brendon Warren · Aug 13, 2015

I've got one but I've never used it.

showcrop · Aug 13, 2015

I have one that I have never used too. I could meet you half way. I bought it for wind blown wind rows.

Hayfarmer · Aug 13, 2015

I still have one and have used it but not for quite a few years. worked great for turning hay windrows when they were picking up moisture on the bottom. I knew guys who always turned the bock swath windrows when done swathing as you had to run over those when turning and they tended to hug the ground. Mine did not raise hydraulically so it was a bit of a pin to use. Most of them I have seen had carboard in the centers of the wheels and if not kept indoors tended to rot away. I have thought the 3 point ones would work good as easy to raise and lower. I have turned a lot of windrows with a rake, but sometimes hard to keep the windrow from turning over completely

JD Seller · Aug 13, 2015

Bruce I made one a few years ago. Some of the Gull wing rakes use an arm that pivots with just two of the rake wheels on that arm. Kelderman Is the one I used. So with that complete arm assemble you just need to make the tractor mount that is basically a pipe that allows the twin rake wheels to pivot on it. I made the whole mounting arm/pipe pivot up and down with a small 2 x 8 hydraulic cylinder.

JMS/.MN · Aug 13, 2015

This is the fluffer I cobbled together in a couple days time to move wet windrows. JD windrow pickup with variable hyd drive to pull apart and fluff windrows. Hyd cyl in center moved the pickup side to side to deposit windrow in a new location, since alfalfa was underseeded.

centash · Aug 14, 2015

Bruce, I use a 3 wheel 3 pth Befco to turn swaths---have to extend the right side far enough to avoid running over the swaths, even remove the blocks or linkages on the left side of the 3 pth so it can swing further to the right.

Ben

Front mount 2 wheel rakes.

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