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Hi. I'm Bryan Messick 
with Messick Farm Equipment. 
We're going to talk about today raking. 
We're going to hit a couple of things. 
We're going to talk about a wheel rake 
which is this is a carted style rake. 
We're going to look at 
some other type of wheel rakes 
and then we're going to talk 
about some rotary rakes. 
We're going to tell you what we feel 
is what's best for what operation, 
try to answer those questions that say, 
"What rakes for me? 
What's the best rake out there 
and why should I choose this rake?"
We have here a ProCart series rake. 
This is a carted mounted wheel rake. 
These come in a variety of sizes. 
New Holland offers them in three types. 
This is a 10-wheel rake. 
This is a 1022. 
Next to us is a 1225, which is a 12-wheel rake. 
We're talking a total number 
of wheels on the side. 
We're not counting the one in the middle. 
When we say this is a 10-wheel rake, 
we got five wheels running down each side 
for a total of 10 wheels making our raking width.
On the carted style rake, 
the advantage of this rake is covering 
large acreage with less dollar. 
This is going to be our cheapest rake 
we're going to talk about price-wise, 
most cost-effective rake to cover 
over 22 feet of working width. 
You can't beat it for raking hay 
into a windrow cost-effectively. 
People say, "Well, then let's rake 
everything like that." 
Well, you get into first cutting hay 
and you're doing small square bales, 
you can't have 22 feet of hay in one windrow. 
You won't get your bale through it. 
That's where smaller rakes come 
into play such as a rotary style rake.
Secondly, you'd say, 
"I have a lot of stones in my field." 
This might not be the rake for you either. 
These rakes run on the ground. 
If you notice, there's no PTO shafts. 
There's no hydraulic drives 
on these wheels or anything. 
The wheels are not ground driven. 
These wheels are driven 
by running on the ground. 
They have to be hit the ground 
to make them turn. 
Turning is what brings the hay into the center 
so they have to be driven on the ground. 
Anything this rake touches, 
it brings it into the center 
nd deposits it on the windrow. 
We like to tell people if you've got nice, 
clean fields, this is also the rake for you.
The other thing we want to caution 
you when shopping for rakes like this, 
you'll notice this rake 
has a center wheel. 
We call this the center kicker wheel. 
The reason we feel this is adamantly 
important is the crop that runs down 
the center is not being moved 
if you don't have that. 
When I say it's not being moved, 
it's on the ground. 
We're going to pile all this 
other hay on top of it. 
Now that wet hay underneath 
there never got moved. 
We piled dry hay on top. 
It never gets a chance to dry.
With that center kicker wheel, 
that moves that hay off to the side. 
It gets re-raked and brought back over 
and incorporated with the other head. 
We feel it's a must. 
It is an option, 
but we feel it's a must for us. 
Also, with this carted rake, 
you are limited in how wide 
you can make your windrow. 
You want to make sure you size up 
the width that this is going to deliver 
to the baler that you're using.
This is another type of wheel rake. 
This is a New Holland 1833 DuraVee. 
The 18 part of that stands for the number 
of wheels in the wheel rake, 
the same as how the carted style was. 
There is 18 wheels in our raking width. 
That's nine per side. 
We're still going to have 
our center kicker wheels. 
Still going to be important 
like we talked about. 
The biggest difference in this rake 
is the rake does not fold up and over itself, 
it folds in. 
What that lets you do 
is adjust your working width. 
You can have working widths 
of anywhere from as little as 12, 
13 feet out to 30-plus feet. 
A rake like this is 33 feet, 
you can rake out to. 
It lets you vary your width of your raking.
The other thing it lets you do 
is it lets you adjust the size of your windrow. 
On the back of this rake, 
we can hydraulically or manually, 
depending on the options, 
move your windrow in or out. 
It lets you control how big 
a windrow you're going to have. 
Each one of these rakes 
is independently held up 
with a spring to control 
your flotation on the ground. 
Our center kicker wheels are mounted 
and continue to move the crop 
in the middle out to the side 
and have it raked back.
You'll see these bars upfront, you say, 
"Well, how's the rake unfold?" 
These are transportation bars. 
If you're going to be trailering 
this rake down the road, 
we want to put these in. 
It locks the rake so it can go straight down 
the road because this is incredibly long 
when going down the road. 
We want to make sure it's stable. 
Again, you'll see there's no PTO shaft. 
There's no hydraulic motors. 
The wheels are driven off the ground 
so this rake is run on the ground, 
sweeping the ground clean, 
bringing everything into the center. 
Like we talked about, 
you're able to adjust 
the width of your windrow 
and you're able to adjust 
you're working width. 
That is a key difference in the DuraVee 
rake versus our carted style rake.
We have been talking about 
all different styles of rakes, 
wheel rakes, carted rakes. 
This is going to be a totally different animal. 
All those other rakes we talked 
about were driven by the ground. 
This is driven by a PTO shaft. 
We're going to start here. 
We're going to hook to 
our tractor on the drawbar, 
we're going to hook up your PTO. 
PTO is going to come back. 
It's going to power rotor. 
That rotor is going to turn around. 
It going to remind you 
of a helicopter rotor. 
That's where the huge difference 
is between a wheel rake and a rotary rake are. 
A rotary rake is picking the crop up 
and moving it over against the curtain. 
We are not dragging it across the field.
Krone, for instance, on this rake has 
an exclusive tine that has a cupped system. 
That tine is designed to pick up the hay, 
let it ride high on the tine, 
carry it across, and deposit it. 
We are not dragging it across the field. 
If you remember when 
we talked about wheel rakes, 
we've talked about the rakes again 
being powered by the ground 
and raking all the material including rocks, 
dirt, and everything else that's there 
because they're driven on the ground. 
This is driven off a PTO. 
We are picking the hay up, carrying it across, 
and depositing it against a curtain.
We're going to get a lot less ash 
content in our hay, meaning dirt, 
a lot less rocks and foreign material 
in a rake like this 
because we're just moving it across, 
we're lifting it, moving it and depositing it. 
What that also leaves is a much fluffier 
taller windrow at the side. 
Let's air get in underneath it 
and lets it dry faster. 
You look at that and you'd say, 
"Why wouldn't everybody on a rotary rake 
if we're saying it's no rocks, 
less ash content?" 
Well, you're limited in width. 
A rake like this particular size 
has a 13-foot working width. 
That's all I can cover. 
It's 13 feet. 
That rotary rake we looked at up there 
did 22 feet, almost double. 
You're limited in size.
Yes, they make double rakes 
and triple rakes in a rotary style. 
Now, you're looking at 
a cost difference. 
Rotary rakes are more money 
than a wheel-style rake. 
Do we feel they're better? 
Depending on your application. 
Some people depending on the conditions, 
they don't have stones, 
a wheel rake is just fine. 
If you've got stones and you're worried 
about ash content, a rotary-style rake. 
This rake ultimately will bring 
your material in a much gentler way 
into the windrow 
and it will continue to let it dry. 
With Krone's exclusive design teeth 
that lifts the crop and carry it, 
it will give you a nicer product 
at the end once bailed.
There's much more we could talk about, 
but that is a brief tutorial on rotary rakes 
versus wheel rakes. 
We appreciate you watching. 
Please give us a call if you have 
any questions at 1-800-222-3373 
or visit us at messicks.com. 
Completely different animal 
than a wheel rake. 
This machine, first and foremost, has-- 
We're going to start over 
because I have no PTO shaft. 
We were going to talk about PTO shaft. 
Let's move down to one with a PTO shaft. 
[laughs] 
I'll start over. 
Okay.
