Fixing a OLD Hay Rake! [[David Bradley]] Side Delivery

[@DrEVIL-og4qv]

I was about 8 years old when Dad bought our DB hay rake, I started raking that summer and by the time I was 10 Dad would tell me to go rake hay or straw and I'd gas the tractor and go. I also drove the neighbor's tractor pulling his baler, an IH #55 engine driven twine baler. We also had an old New Idea steel wheel 4 bar rake, tall wheels, about 5 ft tall and only maybe 2 inches wide, the New Idea rake had a hitch on the back to pull another rake, I'd hook the two rakes together to rake oat straw, 14 ft swath raked 40 acres of straw pretty quick. The last year I used that DB rake was 1972, Dad quit farming that year, my Brother-in-law grew up a mile west of us, His Dad bought the DB rake on Dad's sale. I first used a '39 FARMALL H to rake with, spring of '68 the H got traded for a Super H, that Fast 4th sure was a better gear for 75% of what I did with that tractor, mowing & raking at 6-1/2 mph saved a bunch of time.

[@williamchristopher1560]

My grandad had a DB rake he got during the war, on rubber like yours.

[@jeremymillwood9061]

Great video! I just pulled one of these out of the woods on our new farm. It was spinning when I pulled it and appears to be in good condition except for the tires and a couple of broken tines. I’ll be looking for a source to buy those

[@FishHuntCookTinker]

Good luck finding tines. So far I have not had any luck finding them. Mine has done well for me. I raked 10-12 acres twice this year. Didn’t do very well on the hills though. Wanted to slide down the hill. Good luck!

[@brianmilliard6998]

You can pump those gear boxes full of grease. It will work just fine.

[@BeingMe23]

I think it would be a great Winter project.

[@FishHuntCookTinker]

Thank you for watching!

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Did Sears or Montgomery Wards sell DB?

[@stevenmchenry9276]

Love the channel. Hoping to get me a farm 1 day.

[@FishHuntCookTinker]

I am glad to hear you like it. I hope you do. Thanks for watching!

[@viscache1]

Here’s a bit of advice. A farm ‘one day’ means you will be too old to make anything of it. There is never a ‘perfect time’ to buy a farm. If you can, get a job on a farm, figure out how to make a product and market it (several products because the market is constantly shifting) and if you buy a small farm (10acres-ish) learn how to farm vertically! We started with sheep, planted hay, added chickens for eggs, added bees for honey (huge money maker) then rabbits for year round meat production. Sheep give wool/milk as well as meat, bees give wax/bees/queens/honey, rabbits give meat and furs and if you plant an acre of corn you can implant the ‘corn smut’ spore and produce an incredibly delicious ‘truffle like’ mushroom that fine dining restaurants will pay up to $120lb for…whereas corn will bring a couple thousand for the whole crop! as the Good Book says, “Whatever you do, do with all your might”…I might add….DO IT NOW WHILE YOU ARE YOUNG AND STRONG AND CAN START OVER IF YOU FAIL.

[@brianmilliard6998]

Diesel and kerosene work great for breaking up slugde

[@viscache1]

Great video! These are great old machines! I just bought one of these for $150 on Craigslist. A couple of bearings are shot. I think mine is a 1933..model 413 but it’s very similar. I think all the same things go wrong over time so they are pretty easy to fix. If you buy Marvel Mystery Oil (by the 55 gal. Drum is best on a farm) you can get the gears clean and free. What machines do they sell now that can serve perfectly for over 100 years and still keep working? On the hitch you might be tempted to use a #8 hardness bolt but stick to #5 as the failure of the bolt is preferable to the failure of the metal.

[@FishHuntCookTinker]

I don’t know anything made today as tough as these old rakes. I raked around 12 acres this year and it did great. Thank you for commenting and watching!

[@williamchristopher1560]

Always start in a field counter clockwise. I make a full round, then I come back on it with the tractor next to the windrow on the R side. That rolls the hay back a little and causes the windrow to be resting on raked up stubble, where, IF I didnt do that it would rest on mowed hay that had been laying and settling for a day and cause of that, the bailer might not pick that on the bottom. With me 1/2 raking it 1/2 back I know when its baled that I got ALL the hay. Yes it takes more gas, but ive only got around 5 acres so I want to get all the hay out of the field I can

[@FishHuntCookTinker]

Thank you for the advice. I am slowly getting better at it. What gets me is when a field is unevenly grown. I go from small double rows to monsters. Once we get the fields in better shape I hope that improves. Thank you for commenting and watching!