Angus Cowman":5un5stu8 said:
Yep I had the JD version of that rake and loved it but when custom baling it was too hard to use because of odd shaped fields in my part of the country
IMO for large fields that is the best rake on the market
Do you run yours off of tractor hyds or do you have ut set up with its own pump
I set mine up on pto and had its own the pump so I could pull it with smaller tractor and not heat up the hyd system on the tractor
Thankfully, my 2 hayfields are actually square
A 40 and a 160. I do bale a couple yards up and don't use the rake there :yuck:
I run my rake with the tractor remotes. Tractor is a Ford 9600. IIRC, the tractor holds about 15 gallons of transdraulic fluid. Has a 2 qt spin-on filter I intend to change every year but don't always get it done
Seems to handle the rake no problem, with no overheating.
The tractor has a Waldon 9' dozer on it and 2 hydraulic remotes. I put the transport link in to hold the dozer up when raking because that is the remote I use to run the baskets. Anyone familiar with a Waldon dozer would agree it would be a bear to take off the tractor :mrgreen:
The other remote handles folding/unfolding/lifting/lowering functions with the hydraulic splitter control box provided by Vermeer. Tractor loafs along at high idle 12-1400 engine RPM in Hi 5th gear. Governor is a little logy so we give 'er a bit more throttle on steeper hills
For some reason (probably left one of the switches on) the splitter box will run the battery dead in a coupld days. So after we get the rake set up the way we want it in the field we make sure to unplug it :idea: