Rake rake gauge wheels

[Limecuda]

Is there a website/store that sells a decent set of gauge wheels at a decent price? I won't be using them a whole bunch so I would rather not spend a small fortune. I have debated on trying to build my own.

 

[blackland]

Roll-A-Cone.com in West Texas lists some in their catalogue.

I think the smallest run about $150 ea. and would still need some sort of mount, a little beyond my sense of reasonable, however...

 

[Sully2]

Is there a website/store that sells a decent set of gauge wheels at a decent price? I won't be using them a whole bunch so I would rather not spend a small fortune. I have debated on trying to build my own.

Im bound and determined to now...
Look for my thread Im about to start..

 

[Youare]

I have looked all over the internet and at various dealers for a set of gauge wheels at a reasonable price and did not find anything for under $200.00. I could not even find used gauge wheels to adapt to my rake.

I made a set a few months ago for about $60.00 and they worked great. I purchased a set of riding lawn mower replacement front wheels and made an axle stub out of a grade 8 bolt. A few pieces of plate stock some steel tubing and a couple of pieces of 1 inch diameter stock with a little welding and the wheel part was done.

Two pieces of angle iron and square steel tubing with a piece of round tubing welded to one end of the square steel tubing and the supports were done. I don't have a welder but was able to get all the welding done at a shop for $10.00.

They do make a world of difference.

Randy

 

[HomeBrew2]

Pretty cheap and easy DIY ... even if you jobout the welding ... anybody can cut steel with a HF $40 abrasive saw (throw it away when done

 

[MadReferee]

There have been several posts in the last few years by people who have build their own for less than $50. Do a little searching and you will find them. Here is mine.

Gauge wheels for a landscape rake

 

[FortClatsop]

I'm no fabricator. But I couldn't stomach the $250 to add the kit to my Frontier/Woods rake. I decided that the wheels on my Frontier/Befco RFM looked an awful lot like the ones for my rake. So I ordered the wheel tail arms from my JD dealer for the rake at $23 each and bought five dollars worth of bolts and zirc fittings. I figured that once I had the arms in the right position that I could get a little help scabbing something on it I needed to. It accepts the wheels just as I had hoped so I'm about $200 ahead. I thought about trying to go through Woods directly and try so save a few more bucks but I didn't.

 

[FamilyFarm]

I have a Land Pride 7 ft heavy duty landscape rake. I was blessed to have a dealer that sold me the rake at the same price as other quotes, then agreed to include the wheel kit at no extra charge. I think he agreed before he knew the list price for the kit was $400! I'll say this, I would hate to have to use it without the gaugue wheels. It is so easy to clean up an area of rocks, debris or whatever with the wheels set properly.

 

[weldingisfun]

Just curious, but can you angle the rake with the gauge wheels to pile up rocks, etc. in windrows?

 

[FamilyFarm]

Just curious, but can you angle the rake with the gauge wheels to pile up rocks, etc. in windrows?

I haven't used mine to do that, but it does adjust at different angles and I see no reason it would not do it.

Terry