NYTrainer,
I have a 5-foot LP rake with the flip-down grader blade and gage wheels, and a separate scarifier. The rake is an LR1560, and the scarifier is an SF2566. I also have a LP QuickHitch QH15. My experience with LandPride has not been good. I originally went with their equipment because I felt it was heavy duty, and would better stand up to the stresses of use. Their stuff does seem to be very heavily built, but they seem to have a lot of quality-control / engineering problems.
I ordered their rake last year, with the gage wheels and grader blade, and the first mistake they made was sending me a rear blade instead of the flip down grader blade. I returned the rear blade, and next they sent me a 6-foot grader blade instead of a 5-foot one (which is the one I need). I'm still trying to get the correct grader blade. Pretty soon I'll just give up, take my torch, and cut & reweld the 6-foot blade so it will fit my unit. The rake body has several front and rear angled positions. It rotates around to use in the back position - until you install the gage wheels. The bracket that holds the gage wheels doesn't clear the frame of the rake, so to use the rake in the "rear-rake" position, you'd have to remove one of the gage wheel brackets to rotate the rake around.
The scarifier works okay - no problems with it.
I just received their QH-15 last week. It was missing the lower pins, but had the optional floating top-link. I didn't order the floating top-link, but the unit needs the pins to hook-up to the 3-point. I'm currently using some other pins I had in my stash. I think the unit is too wide, also - it's supposed to fit Cat I, which calls for a spacing of 26" between the bottom pin shoulders. The frame of the unit is 26", but the hooks that grab the implement are spaced out beyound that - maybe 3/4"-1" or so. Not much, but if I try to pick up my JD
ballast box, the pins don't extend far enough through the hooks to let me install the lynch pins. (The ballast box measures 26" between the pin shoulders.) This leaves the pins not extending completely through the hooks - looks pretty unstable to me. I haven't tried other implements yet, but I'll make this one work, simply by slipping bushings over the existing pins on the ballast box, which will have the effect of extending the pins. If I had it to do over, I think I'd look at the Worksaver quick hitch - or at the Jiffy or Freedom models.
As I said, their stuff seems to be pretty heavily constructed. When deciding on a rake and scarifier, I picked theirs because of the heft of it. I planned to clear a path several hundred feet long through some woods, so I anticipated using the scarifier quite a bit. A neighbor has a York unit - and of course it had a couple of broken-off scarifier teeth. I think it's safe to say I'll never break one of the teeth on the SF2566 scarifier.
The scarifier has a 3-Pt hitch on the back of it - if you want to use the scarifier with the rake, you hook the scarifier to the tractor 3-Pt, and hook the rake to the scarifier 3-Pt. This works okay, only complaint I have is that is makes the scarifier/rake combination kinda long, but it isn't a problem as far as using the implement.
I would definitely suggest getting the rake w/ flip-down blade as opposed to getting only one frame and switching a rake and back blade. Switching between rake and back-blade requires assembly/disassembly - quite a bit of work there.
I realize other's may not have had the same kind of experiences I've had. But I've had too many problems, with different implements purchased at different times, at a price higher than alternatives, to recommend them. Hope this helps.
