Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?)

   / Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?) #1  

SensibleNick

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Ystad, Sweden
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Foton FT254
Earlier on in the autumn I had a thought on the way to work and stopped off at the farm supply shop and picked up a load of cheap springy finger things. (19 in total). (if anyone wants to fill me in on what they're called in English, I'd be interested to hear it)

I'd been saving a few bits of steel at work for the time when they might come in handy, and in the evening I put this together. The overly-simple top point mount is partly due to lazyness, and partly because I might make a normal tow-hitch for it so my neigbour can use it on his UTV. The holes in the ends of the main bar are to mount wheels to stop it going too deep into his horse arena.... or to mount something else behind it. I have no idea really.. it just seemed like sense to get a pair of captive M12 nuts in there while I was plating the ends.

I wish I'd done a double row of fingers - but then again it works nicely and there's no need for it to cost twice as much :)

It's had a fair bit of use since the first pictures were taken, and seems to be working well :)

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   / Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?) #2  
If it works that's all that counts, and you made it dual purpose as well. :thumbsup: What did the springy tine things cost?
 
   / Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?) #3  
very nice welds. i recognize a pro when i see it. looks like aluminum?
 
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If it works that's all that counts, and you made it dual purpose as well. :thumbsup: What did the springy tine things cost?

Those are pickup teeth off a baler or combine. There relativly inexpensive. could bucks each for non oem.
 
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Very nice! :thumbsup:
 
   / Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?)
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very nice welds. i recognize a pro when i see it. looks like aluminum?
The material is Stainless Steel: Our company makes machines for the food industry and most frames are stainless. Machines come and go, and large amounts of stainless get recycled - which explains the holes along the top of the beam. It used to be a beam in a 15-ton packaging machine, but I'm not a pro: I only get to play in my own time, or when the guys in the workshop desperately need help. :thumbsup:

What did the springy tine things cost?
the whole lot was about 2000SEK in total. Which with today's exchange rates is about 280USD... but that would have been about 200USD in the days before the Dollar started to have problems. From the label I know that they were made in Germany and were destined for Claas machinery: so 204saskmans's pickup for baler idea is most likely spot-on :) I just took a walk down their stock shelves until I found what I wanted ... did't ask what they were for! :D
 
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Nice build regardless. Looks like something i might build one day for my grass to help mulch the grass back in.
 
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Nice looking job! Looks practical and if it does the job intended, and YOU like it, thats all that matters! I use to love to work with stainless and TIG welders are great machines. The welds look so good when your done. :thumbsup:v:thumbsup:v. . .John
 
   / Simple Yard rake. (is that the right name for it?) #10  
Nice build, especially your retainers for the springs:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 

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