Rake LANDSCAPE RAKE AND ROCKS

[flINTLOCK]

I am making a list of implements we need to acquire for our food plot project. Already have great ATV spreader for pulverized lime. ATV broadcast spreader for fertilizer. Will probably hand seed the plots with shoulder bag broadcaster. Still haven't figured best way to collect rocks and scratch the surface enough for clover and brassicas to do well. Don't want to spend $$ for power rake. Tilted box scrapper to do initial shallow ripping followed by landscape rake to collect rocks sounds reasonable. Typically, how well should an LR clear rocks up to football size after they are loosened up by boxscraper?

 

[QRTRHRS]

The soil needs to be dry not hard and the looser the better. Stubble really negates the rakes usefulness. Larger stones don't necessarily roll off to the side as well as you would like. The LR tines can bounce over them leaving a lot of smaller stones in the process. I work two opposing passes building one windrow of stones then pick them by hand. It usually can take several passes and it is nice to have someone on the ground working with you.

Are you planning an ATV drawn LR or a tractor? You may want to look into renting or purchasing a tractor pulled rock picker. I don't have any experiance with them but have noted a few are available.

 

[greg_g]

Unless there's a depression I want filled, I too index the rake so the rocks tumble out in rows. To fill a depression, I set the rake perpendicular to the direction of travel, and simply drag a rake full of rocks right straight over the top of the depression. They fall in, I keep on going.

Depends upon what duty rating you purchase in a rake, but mine can drag up to about 40 pounders. Bigger than that, and I get off the tractor and move them by hand.

//greg//