Rake with shiftable cross member

A rake having a transport disposition and a working disposition, comprising:

• a tongue assembly including an elongated shank and a pair of trailing arms angularly disposed from the elongated shank;
• a cross member shiftably, pivotally coupled to the tongue assembly, the cross member mounting a pair of rake assemblies and a wheel assembly, wherein the cross member, the pair of rake assemblies and the wheel assembly are pivotally shiftable as a collective unit relative to the tongue assembly when transitioning between the transport disposition and the working disposition;
• each of the pair of rake assemblies including a respective support beam, the respective support beam being operably coupled to a respective extendible arm operably coupled to the cross member and shiftable between a raised position and a lowered position;
• and
• the wheel assembly including:
• a pair of wheel support arms, each of the wheel support arms operably coupled to the cross member proximate a respective trailing arm and extending distal the support arms, and
• a pair of wheels, each wheel rotatably coupled to a respective wheel support arm,
• wherein a wheel axis is a different axis than a cross member axis,
• wherein the position of the wheels when the rake is in the transport disposition is rearward of the position of the wheels when the rake is in the working disposition, and further wherein the position of the cross member when the rake is in the transport disposition is lower than the position of the cross member when the rake is in the working disposition, and such that each respective support beam is oriented generally parallel to said tongue assembly elongated shank, thereby minimizing the envelope displaced by the rake in the transport disposition.