What was this?

SixHoeBob · Feb 24, 2011

Mr Flusher, your's is a picture of a green and yellow side delivery rake, It could be a John Deere. I have seen Ford 8Ns that were painted green and yellow, that does not make them JDs

Duffster is correct about the dump rake picture.

The OP's rake is well beyond any use other than scrap.

riptides · Feb 25, 2011

SixHoeBob said:
The OP's rake is well beyond any use other than scrap.

What?

Dude!

I can display it out in the yard and bang up against it for at least 20 more years.

mikim · Feb 25, 2011

riptides said:
What? Dude!

I can display it out in the yard and bang up against it for at least 20 more years.

Exactly....my wife loves that kind of "yard art" --center piece of a flower garden.

SixHoeBob · Feb 25, 2011

It is incomplete. People driving by will think the owner does not know what it is.
Would you put a semi-dismantled Pontiac GTO on display? I don't think it would have the same curb appeal as a complete one.

riptides · Feb 25, 2011

SixHoeBob said:
It is incomplete. People driving by will think the owner does not know what it is.
Would you put a semi-dismantled Pontiac GTO on display? I don't think it would have the same curb appeal as a complete one.

Most people around here don't know what a farm is let alone was.

I myself am still trying to get it together, and by the looks of it, a lot of other people did not have the complete picture either.

Too bad for us all. A small piece of history is gone.

I do have some more parts I got out of the ground. Watch this thread for details. I am not sure if they belong to the hay equipment or what. Did these things have weights on them?
The weights look like cones....

HiddenHollow · Feb 25, 2011

I have the same hay rake. The name plate on mine says "NI". I belive that stands for, New Idea, they made a lot of implements for a long time.

riptides · Feb 25, 2011

HiddenHollow said:
I have the same hay rake. The name plate on mine says "NI". I belive that stands for, New Idea, they made a lot of implements for a long time.

Could you post some pictures? I'd really like to see the whole thing. Thanks!