Patent ID: 6892520

Claim:
A foldable hay rake, comprising, a base frame member having forward and rearward ends, and opposite sides, a tongue member secured to the forward end of the base frame for securing the hay rake to a prime mover, a pair of elongated wing arms having inner and outer ends with the inner ends being pivotally secured to the base frame and being adapted to swing outwardly and diagonally with respect to the base frame, an elongated hay rake arm structure pivotally secured to the outer ends of the wing arms, and having a midsection and forward and rearward ends, a plurality of hay rake wheels secured to the hay rake arm structure, positioning wheels pivotally secured to the midsection of the hay rake arm structure, caster wheels pivotally secured to the hay rake structure, adjacent its forward and rearward ends, the wing arms each being comprised of a spaced beam and strut in parallel relation to form a parallelogram configuration, each wing arm being operatively connected by its outer end to a vertically disposed post connected to the positioning wheels to hold the positioning wheels in a forwardly extending direction regardless of the pivotal position of the hay rake arm structure with respect to the base frame and the wing arms, and power means for pivoting the wing arms with respect to the base frame.