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Twenty foot rake

  • 26-08-2019 11:44am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭


    Im looking for a rake for my cousin. Hes "not into those blasted computers" so I'm trying to help him out.
    He want a twin rotor rake that will bring 2, 10ft swarths in together onto the dry area between the 2 swarths. It cant be too wide that it'll catch a 3rd swath. He has no ideas (nor do I) wheather a mounted or trailer rake is better for this job. 5 to 8 years old is what hes thinking.

    Any ideas from the machinery heads here? Make and model to be looking for?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    claas 2600 are a mighty rake but would carry 2 1/2 swards for a 10 mower in the headland but you should manage to catch 2 swards only in the rest of the field .kuhn 6301 would be ideal for 2 ten foot swards but might be a bit lighter rake


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Have a Lely 815 I think it is which will take 3 swarths so not what you are looking for but

    General feedback on my Lely would be that I wouldn’t be a massive fan, it doesn’t leave a very clean field and or to get it clean you have to be crawling along.

    I would look at class or Sip when changing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    As a matter of interest are the trailed rakes any good at raking rotary mower swarths from the flat?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,428 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    One thing about a rake is it would want to nearly be the best machine in the yard because it ll f##k everything up if it goes wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Ok. After a bit of research and using the info posted by some of you boardies, it looks like a Pottinger 612, a Class 2600, or a Kuhn 6301. Ive looked on a few websites this evening and they seem to be rare enough :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,265 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    I’ve a Kuhn GA 6501. Great little rake, easily driven and maneuverable. It has a steering axle and wide tyres. It’ll grab 3 8ft rows and leave a perfect row for a baler. The life of every rake is grease. It’s a well built rake. A few roll pins broke. Other than that I had no issues.

    Pros:
    Easy adjust the widths and heights
    Leaves a good row

    Cons:
    Can’t lift rotors individually
    Lots of roll pins and grease nipples.

    There’s a couple of other makes working near me including Claas, Sip and Pottengeir. From their experience so far I’d run a mile from a second hand pottengeir. Very soft and their cam tracks give trouble if they had a rough owner. Claas are a good rake. The time arms are prone to bend though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I’ve a Kuhn GA 6501. Great little rake, easily driven and maneuverable. It has a steering axle and wide tyres. It’ll grab 3 8ft rows and leave a perfect row for a baler. The life of every rake is grease. It’s a well built rake. A few roll pins broke. Other than that I had no issues.

    Pros:
    Easy adjust the widths and heights
    Leaves a good row

    Cons:
    Can’t lift rotors individually
    Lots of roll pins and grease nipples.

    There’s a couple of other makes working near me including Claas, Sip and Pottengeir. From their experience so far I’d run a mile from a second hand pottengeir. Very soft and their cam tracks give trouble if they had a rough owner. Claas are a good rake. The time arms are prone to bend though

    Would your rake catch bits of a 3rd row in when mowing 10ft swards. My cousin has a 10ft mower. Is the scope of your rake 6.5 meters?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    How about a Lely Rotunde 510

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnKC1eD0PzayQO0SAAzUwf7Rpg_vNgPiJ8mBaQILX47H0-2kuv

    Have one ourselves. Width is adjustable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,265 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Would your rake catch bits of a 3rd row in when mowing 10ft swards. My cousin has a 10ft mower. Is the scope of your rake 6.5 meters?

    Yeah 6.5 meters. Never opened it out fully because the row is too wide for the baler. Well you can narrow it in. Why doesn’t he want to rake any wider than 20ft ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Yeah 6.5 meters. Never opened it out fully because the row is too wide for the baler. Well you can narrow it in. Why doesn’t he want to rake any wider than 20ft ?

    He has his own ideas. He doesnt want to go tedding and raking, just wants 2 rows into one, where it is raked on to the dry ground between the 2 rows.
    I suppose i shouldn't have titled this thread "20 foot rake", it maybe should be "rake for 2, 10 ft rows."


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    How about a Lely Rotunde 510

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnKC1eD0PzayQO0SAAzUwf7Rpg_vNgPiJ8mBaQILX47H0-2kuv

    Have one ourselves. Width is adjustable

    I'll show him this picture, and see what he thinks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    How about a Lely Rotunde 510

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRnKC1eD0PzayQO0SAAzUwf7Rpg_vNgPiJ8mBaQILX47H0-2kuv

    Have one ourselves. Width is adjustable

    Local baler guy has 1 and it does a lovely tidy job

    However am i right in thinking that it will only do a lovely job of raking 2 swarths into 1 and that when the grass is tedded out its no good? Or is that just pub talk?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    He has his own ideas. He doesnt want to go tedding and raking, just wants 2 rows into one, where it is raked on to the dry ground between the 2 rows.
    I suppose i shouldn't have titled this thread "20 foot rake", it maybe should be "rake for 2, 10 ft rows."

    Ah if he is never going to ted then the Rotunde is the one for him - like i said above the local baler fella has 1 where he is merging 2 swarths and it does a lovely job


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Local baler guy has 1 and it does a lovely tidy job

    However am i right in thinking that it will only do a lovely job of raking 2 swarths into 1 and that when the grass is tedded out its no good? Or is that just pub talk?
    Panch18 wrote: »
    Ah if he is never going to ted then the Rotunde is the one for him - like i said above the local baler fella has 1 where he is merging 2 swarths and it does a lovely job

    I'm gonna call that BS! Be more the man at fault than machine when raking up a tedded field. Couple of snaps of the job after tedding
    2019-08-26-09-29-24.jpg

    2019-08-25-17-59-08.jpg


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,428 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    Every baler man i know hates raked grass.they all love a nice conditioned swarth


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,582 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    I'll show him this picture, and see what he thinks.

    Biggest issue with these rakes is if the ground is anyway rough then the tine holders will snap. I challenge you to find a second hand one that isn't welded


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,582 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Have a Lely 815 I think it is which will take 3 swarths so not what you are looking for but

    General feedback on my Lely would be that I wouldn’t be a massive fan, it doesn’t leave a very clean field and or to get it clean you have to be crawling along.

    I would look at class or Sip when changing

    I've a 715 CD and will never part from it unless it breaks in two. Imo there hasn't been a better rake built. Pure animal

    Serious metal in every part of it.
    Cam adjustment.
    Massive rear axle and wheels
    5mm tine arms solid all the way to the cam
    Savage machine to clean the ground

    Have it 3 years and not so much as a tine broke on it even last year when all the krone rakes were breaking tines for sport in the hard ground.

    Class rakes seem very soft in the tine arms and have structural issues on the 2600 just before the axle unless sorted nowadays.

    SIP look the part but I dont like join on the arms as this can only lead to wear and they are overpriced imo.

    If getting a kuhn be careful as a batch left the factory with the wrong wheel bearings in and one lost its wheel on the road near here.

    Run a mile from any McHale rake. Pure disaster


    If the lely breaks I dont know what would be the replacement. Possibly a SIP but they would have to supply solid arms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Biggest issue with these rakes is if the ground is anyway rough then the tine holders will snap. I challenge you to find a second hand one that isn't welded

    Have one! Ours is second hand and not a weld on it. Most likely had an easy life before we got it, and we don't stress it too much either.

    Give all these machines their time to do the job instead of bursting through grass at breakneck speeds and they'll all give a good long service for ya (this applies to all machinery)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,582 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Have one! Ours is second hand and not a weld on it. Most likely had an easy life before we got it, and we don't stress it too much either.

    Give all these machines their time to do the job instead of bursting through grass at breakneck speeds and they'll all give a good long service for ya (this applies to all machinery)

    I know ya do but not all operators treat machines like they should unfortunately


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I know ya do but not all operators treat machines like they should unfortunately

    Exactly. And there in lies the issue. Ya'd easily get years extra out of these yokes if they are minded.

    Back on topic, I reckon the Lely Rotonde I suggested would suit the OP nicely :)
    (or if they are near me I'll do it for them for a good rate :D)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    Have one! Ours is second hand and not a weld on it. Most likely had an easy life before we got it, and we don't stress it too much either.

    Give all these machines their time to do the job instead of bursting through grass at breakneck speeds and they'll all give a good long service for ya (this applies to all machinery)

    So you’re suggesting I shouldn’t be working 540 rated gears in 1000 speed...! Oops


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,582 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Snowfire wrote: »
    So you’re suggesting I shouldn’t be working 540 rated gears in 1000 speed...! Oops

    That's what actually ruins rakes. Hate when I hear that going on. The cam cant take it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Exactly. And there in lies the issue. Ya'd easily get years extra out of these yokes if they are minded.

    Back on topic, I reckon the Lely Rotonde I suggested would suit the OP nicely :)
    (or if they are near me I'll do it for them for a good rate :D)

    Ah shur your only over the road.... bring the fendt, it can do a gazillion miles an hour to west cork :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,582 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Exactly. And there in lies the issue. Ya'd easily get years extra out of these yokes if they are minded.

    Back on topic, I reckon the Lely Rotonde I suggested would suit the OP nicely :)
    (or if they are near me I'll do it for them for a good rate :D)

    Sure sell yours and I'll do your Silage :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭lab man


    I've one same as reggie bought same time cant fault it ideal for a baler , but a fella up the road changed his to a sip the rotors can go in and out on two rams so very handy I'd say , but not as strong as a lely in my veiw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    lab man wrote: »
    I've one same as reggie bought same time cant fault it ideal for a baler , but a fella up the road changed his to a sip the rotors can go in and out on two rams so very handy I'd say , but not as strong as a lely in my veiw

    Your model of rake is probably to wide. It'd pull 3 10ft rows in together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭lab man


    Your model of rake is probably to wide. It'd pull 3 10ft rows in together.


    no 2 x 10s 3x9s but makes best after the teddder they a simple machine but as reggie said depends how you drive them going too fast is no good I reckon if going same speed as the baler is plenty fast


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