Vintage Bamford hay rake - free to collector

[Goweresque]

Anyone interested in taking this old bit of farming history off my hands before it ends up in the scrap bin?

It is complete I think, but everything is seized solid and the wheels are slightly twisted. Castings on the wheel hubs say Bamford, so I assume thats the make. Either a project for the terminally bored, or maybe spares for a similar working one? Free to a good home. PM me if interested.

 

[Lincsman]

Anyone interested in taking this old bit of farming history off my hands before it ends up in the scrap bin?
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It is complete I think, but everything is seized solid and the wheels are slightly twisted. Castings on the wheel hubs say Bamford, so I assume thats the make. Either a project for the terminally bored, or maybe spares for a similar working one? Free to a good home. PM me if interested.

Kept it this long for???

The cage wheels can be weighed in.

I have really good lister bale elevator thats taking shed space up thats going to have to be chopped up... they never sell on Ebay even.

 

[Goweresque]

Kept it this long for???

The cage wheels can be weighed in.

I have really good lister bale elevator thats taking shed space up thats going to have to be chopped up... they never sell on Ebay even.

Yes the cage wheels are definitely going
I hung on to it for years partly because Dad told me to but partly because I inherited his hoarding gene. Seemed such a shame to scrap it. But its sat there for so long and no-one has ever wanted it, and I'm on a covid inspired cleanup drive, so one way or another its time has come......

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Make a lovely piece of art out of it, use your imagination, something for the garden perhaps, or i sign for the farm at entrance, possibilities are endless,
Of if you have no imagination, will the tines fit a haybob ? Asking for a friend

 

[Netherfield]

Dad kept one twenty years in the 'one day' mode, he went on holiday, I got the bottles out and weighed it in, it was another 5 years before he missed it.

There was crate after crate of greenhouse glass, never got touched for years on end, then the greenhouse collapsed and any complete bits of glass out of that got stored as well.

 

[Dry Rot]

Who was the vandal who took the shafts off? I remember one of those being used on uncle's farm but with a horse. The row was then gathered up with a hay sweep, an over sized buck rake, again drawn by horse. When the heap of hay got to a decent size, us kids got to ride on it. Now the poor little sods have to make do with an X-box or something I don't know nor care about. Hay making was followed with cider, scones, and Cornish cream and at bed time we kids had competitions to see who could peel off the largest piece of sunburnt skin! Poor little sods don't know what they've missed!

 

[renewablejohn]

Pity your not a bit closer. The tines are ideal as hoops for a standard deep bed tunnel.

 

[michael N123]

If you advertise it anywhere else (like Facebook) ask for some money for charity to stop pikeys adding it to there scrap pile as free weight

 

[robs1]

My father bought one at a farm sale in about 82, I had to drive 9 miles to get it on main roads wonder the steel wheels were still in one piece when I got home, never did use it,

 

[Boydvalley]

Cage wheels will make a good fire pit.

 

[MontyK]

Guy who worked for my uncle made a decorative fence out of one, top/bottom rail then tines crossed hoop style in between.

 

[Lazy Sod]

Someone would by it, wire brush and paint it and stand it in their pub or house garden.

 

[Netherfield]

Someone would by it, wire brush and paint it and stand it in their pub or house garden.

Health and safety nightmare in a pub garden, someones poor offspring could get spikesd on the tines.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I hope someone wants it to sandblast and have as an ornament, would be a shame to weigh it in

 

[PostHarvest]

When AC Bamlett was building machines in Thirsk, they decided to start a museum of their old machines. They refurbished an old warehouse into a 3 or 4 floor office building and the museum was on the top floor. A group of us hauled the machines up through the stairwell before the stairs were built. One of them was a hay rake like yours, another was a self propelled mower built on an Austin 7 car chassis. Bamlett's went bust a couple of years later and I've always wondered how they got the machines out of there as the warehouse was sold - I think - to the RNLI.

 

[womble8350]

Have you found a home for this yet? I might know of someone down your way that may be interested.

 

[Goweresque]

Have you found a home for this yet? I might know of someone down your way that may be interested.

No takers so far, if you've got anyone interested please get in touch, the scrap bin is arriving tomorrow! Admittedly I don't think it'll all go in one so I can put it aside for a while longer if needed.......

 

[Highland Mule]

No takers so far, if you've got anyone interested please get in touch, the scrap bin is arriving tomorrow! Admittedly I don't think it'll all go in one so I can put it aside for a while longer if needed.......

I'd be sending an email to Drew Pritchard if it were mine.

 

[Goweresque]

I'd be sending an email to Drew Pritchard if it were mine.

Much as I admire his ability to sell old tat for stupendous prices to people with more money than sense, I think this one might be a stretch even for him!

 

[Highland Mule]

Much as I admire his ability to sell old tat for stupendous prices to people with more money than sense, I think this one might be a stretch even for him!

If I were closer I’d have it for my garden. Seriously, get an architectural salvage guy in for a look before it’s out for scrap.