HAY RAKES 



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Hay rakes are of several types. The most common is one 

 which rakes the hay with curved teeth, and the driver of the team 

 or horse dumps the load at a certain place in the field so as to leave 

 the hay in windrows. The dumping is by means of a hand or foot 

 lever. The side delivery hay rake (Fig. 109) requires no dumping, 



FIQ. 108. A crop of mixed timothy and clover. A popular mixture in the red clover belt. 



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but the hay is pushed to one side by a series of rakes on a revolving 

 cylinder. By this method the hay is wadded and twisted more 

 than by the other method. The sweep hay rake is used in the full 

 handling of cured hay. It slides along the ground or is run on 



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the hay into a wind row a 



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very low trunnion wheels. If a horse is hitched to each end, each 

 travels at his own side of a windrow. The sweep takes up a 

 large part of the windrow and carries it to the central stack. One 

 form of this rake allows the horses to walk behind it and push it 

 along. 



There are large hoisting machines which are well adapted for 

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