I've messed around with various methods of measuring fork rake. I'm really liking this one. It seems accurate and repeatable. The pics don't show it but I tried it on two different forks, and I measured them with the rake going to my right (as shown) as well as to my left. All the measurements were very close.

The fork shown was designed to have 66mm of rake, but it's 67.5. The other fork was supposed to be 45, but it's 43.

I'm disappointed that the errors are in opposite directions, because it means that I can't blame the calibration of my jig... What can I blame?

This image shows a 1" bar mounted in my fork alignment fixture, and a Brown & Sharpe magnetic block sitting on my table.

The 1" bar is from a Thompson linear bearing, so it hardened and ground and very straight.

I've used that bar to see if my home-made alignment fixture is holding the fork steerer tube(s) parallel to the table. I can only see a few thousandths of an inch deviation in height from one end of the bar to the other, so I'm satisfied with that.

My wife says I look rakish!

After giving a lecture on 'Women's income over time' , 21st February 2000

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Taken at dusk facing east

I hired these men to get pine needles off of my roof, but they could get only those they could reach with a rake. It occurred to me when watching them that I think I've seen ads for rakes with very long handles -- long enough to reach from the ground to the middle of a roof. If they really do exist, I should get one since I would be able to do at least as good a job of pine-needle removal as they did today.

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Title: Reverend E. Raker, c1895

Accession #: 995-58-1-331

Description: Sepia portrait of Reverend E. Raker, taken by Elisha B. Neal, Port Hope, ON, c1895.

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If I need to break up a largish area of soil but it has leaves on it I clear them off quickly using a lightweight plastic leaf rake before using my 3 tined cultivator to break up the soil.

Here's a link to me using the cultivator. You'll see just how quick and easy it is

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Old fashioned hay rake during the evening golden hour.

I believe this is a horse drawn rake.

I found some volunteer labor to rake my yard this year.

Rakes in the garage, leaning towards the light, yearning for spring when they can get out again.

The alfalfa field has been cut, raked into windrows and is ready for baling!

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Anyone remember or ride around on the dump rake? Sitting on the old metal seat rattling around the field and pushing the lever when the rake collected all the hay that didn't get picked up from the field. It was fun riding it as a kid, but I wouldn't want to do it now.

love autumn!

Not sure about Sanna's raking technique. Seems a little of an odd position to be in!

B-day present from SHURE

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Rakes and brooms wait their turn for fall cleanup - both in the garage and yard.

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The Karesansui or sculptured sand garden fronts the south facade of the Hojo at the Ginkaku-ji Buddhist Temple in the Northern Higashiyama precinct in Kyoto, Japan.

Agomar 90mm f2.8 projection lens from Agfa Reflecta diaprojector.

Today St. Louis received it's first snow this winter. We've had winter weather this year already but it has only been freezing rain and sleet. As I work at a landscaping company which performs snow/ice removal services I have come to despise the snow. It's so much extra work! I took a few minutes break and was snapping photos of a few fellow employees loading up our salters and trucks when I noticed this discarded leaf rake on our back porch. It just caught my eye!

This hay rake has served my grandfather for as long as I can remember - well over thirty years.

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Our ace park crew loading up Launch Pad with a bunch of

features.

The winding tower at Grove Rake mine

the first cutting of hay ... now it is being raked to promote drying

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Santa Clara 2015

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Leica M-P + ??

Can't remember what lens I was using, or testing. This was an early morning walk ... The light was very nice. - G

Surrey Care Trust's Firewalk at Old Reigatians.

I found a big rake in the garage, so I decided to rake the seaweed off our beach, which turned out to be a great idea.