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East Central Saskatchewan | Are they any good? Looking at a used 10 wheel one. Should be able to rake two 14' swaths together? |
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east central Indiana | We can put 2.5 swaths from a 9' together, works fine. |
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East Central Saskatchewan | How are parts? |
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north-central Indiana west of Fulton | We have a 10 wheel NH , I was thinking they were made by Sitrex.
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Southwest Missouri | I don’t think you will be able to reach two 14 foot windows with a ten wheel. We barely could reach two 13s with a 12 wheel. |
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MI | I run a 14' head on a 2550 new Holland and a 12 wheel Sitrex just like the one Dave9110 posted. It just barely covers it when I lay the hay out as wide as the mower will lay it out. No way a 10 wheel will cover 2 14' swaths. Now if you narrow up your windrow to 4' a 10 wheel may work fine. 12 wheel would be the min I would consider |
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East Central Saskatchewan | I figured it this way, my swaths are about 3 feet wide, so times that by two to get 6 feet, then, since the swath comes out the middle of the haybine, I divide the haybine by two and get 14 feet between the two swaths, then I add 6 plus 14 and get 20, and supposedly the rake can gather up to 23 feet of hay so that mean that I should have no problems with a 14 foot haybine but it would not work with a 16 foot haybine. |
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MI | You must be looking at H90V10 That is the only 10 wheel Sitrex that will reach 23 ' BUT it does it buy sacrificing how narrow your final windrow will be. |
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East Central Saskatchewan | Yes that's the one I'm looking at. If I can keep the swath under 3.5 feet then I should be ok. 4 feet would be the max. |
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| We have had one of those for years, used with our 14' hesston. Have broken off the 'wings' a lot of times and welded back together, but it works real good in light to medium hay. It doesnt work worth a darn to roll heavy windrows (3 ton per acre or more) together. Lots of parts available (tines break off fairly regular and need replaced), deere, new holland, shoup.
I really like ours for the things it does well (light hay, smooth ground, decent operators) If you need it for something else, keep looking. |
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East Central Saskatchewan | How fast do you have to go, and if you get into some rough ground if you go slow will you be ok? |
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| The faster the better. But we have gone as slow as 4 mph and still worked. We rake 2 16' swaths together with a 12 wheel new holland built by sitrex. We make the swath 5' wide so we can just bale it if needed without raking. Only thing we have needed is a couple of dust caps on the rake wheels and a couple of lug bolts. (They are an odd size). |
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MI | Never been around one so don't know for sure but I'd think the wheel angle to swath would be quite steep causing excessive tooth wear and slower wheel rotation to the ground speed. That means lots of new teeth and poor cleanup on heavier hay |
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MI | Your results may vary. Mine are with alfalfa laid out as wide as I can get with the mower and raking it into a 4 1/2 ft windrow for round baling |
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SE Texas | +1 |
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Western Iowa | x2
My hay guy has a 13ft disk mower and I use a 12 wheel rake. In straight rows it works just fine, but in curves I use every bit of the 12 wheels. A 10 wheel just wouldn't work. |
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Ontario | CIH , sitrex, and New Holland are all the same rake, go for a 12 if your buying a new one , rake angle will be to flat IMO on a 10, we run 12 here raking 2 , 15’ windrows spread 8 ft. On another note if your looking at used and the price is right an MX10-12 could easily be made to a 12 by adding the extra spacer and wheel. |
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East Central Saskatchewan | Now that's kind of what I'm thinking, how hard would it be to put on an extra wheel on the H90V10 that I'm looking at, or is it not even possible. Plus can you pull the rake with a 1/2 ton or do you need a bigger truck?
I don't rake enough hay to justify buying a 10,000 dollar rake as this rake I would only use for maybe 8 hours a year at the most.
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Osakis, MN | They are light, I'd pull ours with a Ford ranger and feel safe. The wiggle wobble wheels can start to do the dance of death if you catch the shoulder of the road wrong or sometimes they will do it just for fun. |
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Ontario | 2 completely different rakes, the 90V10 is what I call a cart style, pros are they are very easy to transport at road speed behind a pickup (half ton would be fine) don’t have the capacity of a v-rake the Mx style is a v-rake , rakes better then a cart style , has more capacity/clearance when getting into heavy crops, gives you the ability to run rake “steeper” , will be more expensive and needs caster wheel tighten to road over 25mph. If your pulling it behind a pickup at road speed and the front caster wheel starts the dance...there will be skid marks on the road and on the seat.. |
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East Central Saskatchewan | So what do you guys think, worth it to take a look at this rake or should I pass and find a 12 or 14 wheel v-rake? He wants 4k for it, got about 700 acres on the teeth according to him. |
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Ontario | 8hrs a year isn’t a lot of raking, I’d say that model is lots of rake for your workload, and price is right if it hasn’t raked more then 700a. Just make sure it is wide enough to ketch your rows. |
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Redickville, Ont | You’ll want a 12 wheel. If I lay my 14ft swaths out it’s perfect match. Mines decloet from Italy found it at auction brand new for $4000. Pretty happy about that.
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South Central Montana | I use a 14' swath and a Sytrex 10 wheel on a 3 pt. Works very well together.
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East Central Saskatchewan | Thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to Go and take a look at it sometime soon and see what I can work out. |
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| X3, use a 12 wheel on 2-12's and sometimes wish for a 14 wheel |
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Hillsboro, TN | I wouldn't use that model rake (H90V10) if you gave it to me. The frame of the "cart" sits too low. In moderately heavy or long stemmed crop, the hay has a tendency to ball up and drag on the frame. Several manufacturers make that style rake. IMO it is a bad design. I used one for about 30 minutes once, then drove 15 miles to get my Kuhn Speedrake
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