hay rake

He was the one who had the idea to make a table stretcher in the form of a hay rake.

He takes the hay rake and smoothes the clay, then spreads straw over it.

The wind-swept landscape was barren except for a distant shed and an abandoned hay rake.

Spangler invented a combined hay rake and tedder which was patented in 1893.

By his peculiar arrangement, he was able to provide a combined hay rake and tedder in one machine, thereby reducing the cost.

Petra leans against the hay rake.

We peered over the edge to see her passed out 20 feet below, within inches of the curving, sharp tines of the hay rake.

In his senior year he suffered a farm accident with a hay rake which broke his leg and even endangered his life.

The stretcher securing the legs is clearly inspired in its shape by an old-fashioned hay rake, the model then used for clearing fields in Gloucestershire.

A hay rake may be mechanized, drawn by a tractor or draft animals, or it may be a hand tool.

Relocating to Marion, Ohio, Huber patented his hay rake and began a full line of agricultural implements.

The grass swathes would be turned over by means of a hay rake and if the grass was dry enough it would be tedded with the ubiquitous pitchfork.

A hay rake is an agricultural rake used to collect cut hay or straw into windrows for later collection (e.g. by a baler or a loader wagon).

Hoosier cabinets, enamel-top tables, humpback trunks, hay rakes and handmade beds are scooped up by the truckload as antiques dealers from near and far increase their inventories.

During the drying period, which can take several days, the process is usually sped up by turning the cut hay over with a hay rake or spreading it out with a tedder.

Once the grass was dry enough, the loose hay would be gathered into rows with hay rakes (this tedding might be repeated depending on how dry the grass was).

The reason for this was that the fallen leaves blocked our sluice and had to be removed manually with a hay rake at least three times a day and often at night as well.

Some of the more popular European manufacturers of hay rakes are Tonutti, Claas, Deutz-Fahr, Fella, Gokmenler, Krone and Pöttinger.

Huber established his role in the modernization of American agriculture when he invented a "revolving hay rake" (patented in 1863) that allowed one man to do in three hours what three men could do in a day.

The typical early horse-drawn hay rake was a dump rake, a wide two-wheeled implement with curved steel or iron teeth usually operated from a seat mounted over the rake with a lever-operated lifting mechanism.

For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mower machine or by scythe into a row, or it may naturally form as the hay is mowed.

The coat of arms includes images of an oak leaf and of a mechanical hay rake, reflecting the importance here both of the forest and of agriculture, and recalling the factory that manufactured agricultural implements locally between 1860 and 1962.

The earliest hay rakes were nothing more than tree branches, but wooden hand rakes with wooden teeth, similar in design to a garden rake but larger, were prevalent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and still are used in some locations around the world.