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Show , Company Improves Side Delivery Rake Completely Engineered For Power Operations A new side-delivery rake, engineered engi-neered from the ground up for power take-off raking and tedding, and completely designed for mechanized mech-anized farming- is now in production. produc-tion. Manufacturers declare that a "history of the side-delivery rake, which is the machine you see piling up long rows of hay, straw and other crops for baling, shows that there has been little or no change in the machine since the advent of the tractor. It is the first all-new rake in 50 years." Exclusive features of the rake are the floating reel and basket which permits use of the full length of the 64 pairs of raking teeth at all times and a positive chain pitch control which changes the angle of the teeth for different raking conditions. condi-tions. Two speeds forward and oria speed for tedding, or reverse raking, rak-ing, permit the operation of the First change in the mechanized side-delivery farm rake since the advent of the tractor is shown here. It has been engineered anew from the ground np and has floating reel and basket. rake at high tractor speeds. Th four-bar reel is V-belt powered from the chain-driven power takeoff. take-off. The rake is this manufacturer's' third contribution toward complete mechanization of haymaking. A first one-man, twine-tying pick-up baler produced commercially, and the new field bale loader already have cut huge chunks from the farmer's haymaking schedule. |