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Each tooth is rounded up, sled-runner fashion, at each 

 end so it will point forward and slide along over and 

 close to the ground without catching fast. There is 

 an iron pull rod, or long hook, attached to each end of 

 the center bar by means of a bolt that screws into the 

 center of the end of the wooden center shaft, thus 

 forming a gudgeon pin so the shaft can revolve. Two 

 handles are fastened by band iron straps to rounded 



Figure 144. Revolving Hayrake. The center piece is 4"x6"xl2' 

 long. The teeth are double enders 1%" square "and 4' 6" long, 

 which allows 24" of rake tooth clear of the center timber. Every 

 stick in the rake is carefully selected. It is drawn by one horse. 

 If the center teeth stick into the ground either the horse must stop 

 instantly, or the rake must flop over, or there will be a repair job. 

 This invention has never been improved upon for pulling Canada 

 peas. 



recesses or girdles cut around the center bar. These 

 girdles are just far enough apart for a man to walk 

 between and to operate the handles. Wooden, or iron 

 lugs, reach down from the handles with pins project- 

 ing from their sides to engage the rake teeth. Two 

 pins project from the left lug and three from the right. 

 Sometimes notches are made in the lugs instead of 

 pins. Notches are better ; they may be rounded up to 

 prevent catching when the rake revolves. As the rake 

 slides along, the driver holds the rake teeth in the 

 proper position by means of the handles. When suffi- 

 cient load has been gathered he engages the upper 



