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Did anybody ever use a horse drawn dump rake behind a tractor, how did they trip every few feet to make a windrow? And all the tractor wheels crush the dry hay into the dirt?
I thought dump rakes were only yard art starting before WW2! Leo
 
More rusty stuff to the right. Sorry looking into the sun that was about the best picture I could get.
 
Spent the summer of 1950 with my grandfather. He had hired a crew to rake and bale his hay crop, but the owner said he was a man short on the baler and it would be a week later. My grandfather pushed me forward and said, well, just hire this boy. At age 11 I had my first paying job, poking wires on a hand-fed horsehead hay baler. The crew used two young men, a B Farmall, and an old dump rake to rake and pile the hay. So a tractor can pull it but it takes two people.
 
I'm sure they had someone ride the rake. Like they did with grain binders. I was probably 10 yrs old
and my grandfather and uncle still used a dump rake. Made little stacks. 1939 A John Deere. Hand forked the hay onto the hay rack with lifting slings. Horses were still available if the hitch hadn't been shortened.
 
If nobody likes the dump rake it looks like there might be a side delivery rake off to the far right inline with the white panels.
 
Lots of dump rakes were converted to be used behind tractors. There was some sort of linkage with a spring for the holddown and the arm which was fastened to the trip also released the holddown.
 
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