Billc
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- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 357
- Location
- Northwest Georgia
- Tractor
- Kubota 5400 4x4 with ROPS, canopy, 1001 loader, heavy duty quick release bucket with tooth bar, 280 Bush Hog brush cutter, 6' Bush Hog box blade, 6' Bush Hog plug aerator, 3 point hay spear, 6' Lands
Mark, you are the past master (so begins the buttering up) on grading so I figured you would know just how to make a landscape rake sing and dance.
Bought a used Land Pride 7' landscape rake and used it for the first time today. Note: It does not have guage wheels yet; will fabricate some this winter.
I have 7 very very large burn piles that have been sitting since this past spring. Have burnt 2 of the piles (they burn for at least 10 days). I spent the day breaking up one of the burnt burn piles.
To break up the pile I start with the loader and scoop the burnt rubish (trees, stumps, roots, rocks, etc.) into many small piles. Then I use the lip of the bucket to drag the pile out and scatter the debris. The big chucks (stumps, roots, etc.) that were not burnt to ash I stack in the loader and carry to another burn pile waiting it's turn to be fired.
Now the question. What's left is a bunch of tree debris (roots, twiggs, sticks, burnt wood). I need to get the debris to the unburnt burn pile 50 yards away. I have the landscape rake facing backward. I push the piles of debris to the other burn pile. The only problem I am running into is that I not only capture the debris, but also a good bit of dirt and ash.
Anyway to just get the left over wood and leave the dirt behind? Have tried to think this problem through with no luck.
Thanks, Mark, and anyone else you has a suggestion.
Bill Cook
Bought a used Land Pride 7' landscape rake and used it for the first time today. Note: It does not have guage wheels yet; will fabricate some this winter.
I have 7 very very large burn piles that have been sitting since this past spring. Have burnt 2 of the piles (they burn for at least 10 days). I spent the day breaking up one of the burnt burn piles.
To break up the pile I start with the loader and scoop the burnt rubish (trees, stumps, roots, rocks, etc.) into many small piles. Then I use the lip of the bucket to drag the pile out and scatter the debris. The big chucks (stumps, roots, etc.) that were not burnt to ash I stack in the loader and carry to another burn pile waiting it's turn to be fired.
Now the question. What's left is a bunch of tree debris (roots, twiggs, sticks, burnt wood). I need to get the debris to the unburnt burn pile 50 yards away. I have the landscape rake facing backward. I push the piles of debris to the other burn pile. The only problem I am running into is that I not only capture the debris, but also a good bit of dirt and ash.
Anyway to just get the left over wood and leave the dirt behind? Have tried to think this problem through with no luck.
Thanks, Mark, and anyone else you has a suggestion.
Bill Cook