What is a buck rake on farm machinery?
A buck rake is a device used to pick up hay from the field. In horse drawn days this was a device that was hitched to a team of horses and sat in from of them. Basically it looks like a large hair comb flat on its side. The hay was formed into windrows with a hay rake (long rows) and then the buck rake was pushed into the row from the end to gather the hay. Once a good pile of hay was on the rake it could then be moved to the stack.
