We pick up my...

[growalot]

B-Day gift in a couple of days....I declined one either last or the year before...hoping to find a used one..or to rent...Well the cost of renting being what it is and the new land I'm opening.....no used ones around....Mr B is getting me a new york rake...Thank God...I can't even tell you how happy that makes me...seriously!!...years and years of hand raking and still...they breed like rabbits I swear!!..LOL

[Lawdwaz]

Mr. B must be a special guy.  What more could a girl ask for than a York rake for a birthday.  Not the easiest thing to wrap either.

 

Just messin with ya! 

 

Pics in action please.........

 

 

[Pygmy]

What a GUY !!

 

He's helping you get  your ROCKS off ...

 

What ELSE is a good hubby for ??  << s**t eating GRIN >>....

[landtracdeerhunter]

See if Mr B will throw in a set of gauge wheels. Sure worth the extra $.

[Gthphtm]

Grow. add some weight to the top of it as cement blocks, pieces of railroad track or I beams and you will really be moving some rocks.

[Gthphtm]

Also be careful backing up with it down around tree stumps and good size rocks,at $12.00 to $15.00 a piece those tines break off easy.

[Lawdwaz]

Grow. add some weight to the top of it as cement blocks, pieces of railroad track or I beams and you will really be moving some rocks.

How about she tries it first and knocks some of the paint off it first?

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Grow. What make and model and where are you getting it?

[growalot]

Lol you guys...you only wish you had a wife so easy to buy for...My toys maybe expensive...but unlike a diamond...he can use them too...though I did get my pearl set one year

[growalot]

landtrac..... I'm not sure what gauge wheels are...well kinda sure.... but this is a 3pt hitch rake for the big JD....would it need them? The hitch lever controls the heavy disc I use very well...I would think the same true for the rake

[growalot]

We're going to TSC farms...we have the disc from them...and when I had a weld break on the first use...they came up got the disc and dropped off a new one for free...they have always been very good to deal with...but not sure what make they use now....but we have always been able to wheel and deal with them...took a off a good amount on disc...because of rust on one corner of frame...little wire brush and paint...good to go...lol

[Culvercreek hunt club]

The guage wheels are behind the rake and allow te rake to ride and follow the contour of the ground in Float rather than adjusting all the time. Without them as you come out of a dip with your back wheels the tines can come up and dumo what is on the forks. It definitely can be done without them, but it is one of those things that once you use a rake with them you will wonder how you lived without them. Many maunfactures sell and add on kit for their rakes is they are not on them.

[Gthphtm]

Grow. I do not know about your tractor but my JD with the 3 point hitch does not have any Downward pressure it is only Upward pressure and I have found by adding weight to the York rake made it work better then without weight on it.

[growalot]

Good deal...thanks everyone for the tips...I was just looking at the lower fields today....eegads...I wonder how anything grew through all the rocks...I have spent many years "picking" rocks...most of the big ones are out...with exception of new areas....but these sm-med. ones just keep floating to the surface...I think I'll rake before discing and then after discing...I'm running out of places to pile all the rocks..lol

[landtracdeerhunter]

landtrac..... I'm not sure what gauge wheels are...well kinda sure.... but this is a 3pt hitch rake for the big JD....would it need them? The hitch lever controls the heavy disc I use very well...I would think the same true for the rake

Mount on each side of rake for depth control.

[sits in trees]

York rakes are great, and the wheels are a big plus.

[G-Man]

buy a good make and a heavy one ne need for extra weight then same as a good back blade, the land pride tsc use to sell work well but are not really designed for heavy use. wheels do help if you have a don't have a float option or draft adjust control for your 3 pt hitch .

[landtracdeerhunter]

A better pic.