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- May 22, 2008 at 1:03 am #39620
Mark Cowdrey
ParticipantWondering if anyone has experience with dump rakes. I have put up some loose hay by hand for several years & this year will be mowing W the horses so will be able to cover a little more ground. When mowing by hand I have just gathered it w a fork. My fields are fairly small & a friend suggested I use a dump rake to gather it. Any operation or technique advice? Tips or tricks?
Thanks,
Mark
May 22, 2008 at 11:37 pm #46709Carl Russell
ModeratorMark, for most of my haying experience I have used side-delivery rakes, but for a couple of years while my colt was developing I used my mare on a dump rake. It is excellent work for a single horse. It can take a little getting used to because most of the time we are driving axles that are only about 4 feet long and a dump rake can seem pretty unruly. You will want to “practice” some before you try to beat a thunder shower. I found that I had to get used to how much hay to try to gather at once, because once you start losing hay, you have to go back over that area. I think light hay works best, as many old timers will recount days of raking “scatterin’s” as a child on a dump rake with some old retired woods horse.
I found if I started on one side of the field and worked across dumping at even intervals I could build windrows that I would mow up by hand to gather with the wagon.One big draw-back, after growing up around side-delivery rakes, is that with a dump rake you lose that last tedding, as the dump just clumps the hay up and doesn’t really fluff it up one last time like you get when you roll up windrows with the SD. Good luck, and practice, Carl
May 23, 2008 at 1:22 am #46710ngcmcn
ParticipantMark, haven’t used one lately but when i did years ago i found that on a dump rake i could almost count musically between the windrows i created accross the field, with a slight early note on the trip peddle(they always seemed to delay a bit till the tines lifted) i could get the rows pretty straight. We picked up the rows by hand and with a hayloader. Its a bit odd making ten feet of a straight line windrow then moving to an another but it works. Goodluck.
Neal Mcnaughten
Unity, me.May 29, 2008 at 2:13 pm #46711Neil Dimmock
ParticipantThey are the best at raking hay, but they do take some practice to get the rows strait, we at least good enuf for a baler,
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