Name this rake..

Lawnseed

Member

Can anyone name the rake shown at the end of the video above.
Or name the manufacturer of the wrapper and rake. It's not reco they only imported the machines.
 

Dave W

Member
Location
chesterfield
I've half an idea the wrapper was reco's own machine.
I had one a few years ago. The rating plate said rustons engineering co. Otherwise known as reco.

The rake could well have been theirs too. Maybe a prototype
 

Ted

Member
Location
New Zealand

We owned one of the very first of them designed and built here in NZ back in '91 I think from memory.
Tyres with the tynes were very small compared to the RECO built version.
Possibly only about 6 built and sold here and they were all bought back and money refunded as they were problematic and rather unsuccessful. Rotacon.jpg
 
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Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton

We owned one of the very first of them designed and built here in NZ back in '91 I think from memory.
Tyres with the tynes were very small compared to the RECO built version.
Possibly only about 6 built and sold here and they were all bought back and money refunded as they were problematic and rather unsuccessful.View attachment 892964
I didn't think it was wet like that in the "good old days"?

Innovation , sometimes it doesn't work!

Nice 6 pot tractor!
 

Lawnseed

Member
Gallignani have no reference or videos other than these two videos. I was impressed by the performance of the rake in both videos.
I suppose now that kverneland have gallignani we may never see these rakes again. Pity I have a few old tyres for spares
 

Farmer_Joe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
when we made silage in the late 90's our contractor had a rake like that 1 year, as said was just commercial tyres with tines pushed though, it ran on saucers i think he saw it at Yorkshire show on a stand ad bought it but not sure who made it...
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
Definitely a RECO machine... believe it was called a Rotacon... the little Inter was the yard tractor at Huntingdon for many years.. believe it was being driven by RECO"s chief designer Kym Bannister, lately of Kioti UK
Kym is not at Kioti anymore, Its Patrick Desmond (Ex Reco) thats GM at Kioti.
 
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thesilentone

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
The large machine (as stated above) was developed in NZ, under licence Reco built them in the UK. The smaller machine in the video was developed and built in the UK by Reco, who sold a number of them.
 

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