Rake first time to use landscape rake and it broke.....little disappointed....

[leeinmemphis]

Hey everyone,

Yesterday we spent the day with the dozer and my tractor with the bh attached clearing approx 4 acres of young pines and piling them up to be burned. This morning we woke up and I bush hogged the area to cut a remaining scrub brush/vines/small branches that were left laying around. Then I went to hook up my woods lr800 landscape rake. I bought the rake in January but today was my first time to use it. I went around the area and drug/cleaned up the area to get it ready for disking. It worked ok but not as well as I expected. While riding up to the barn I thought that I should try to use the hydraulics on the swing cylinder just to make sure it worked and as soon as I tried to swing the rake the place where the cylinder mounts to the frame broke. It appears to be a plate that mounts the cylinder to the frame is made of a cast steel bracket and it sure enough broke .........guess I'll be calling the dealer to see if they can help me get the parts to fix it. I wasn't doing anything wrong when it broke and hopefully the dealer will take care of me. I honestly was hoping for a little better job out of the rake......maybe it'll take a little more practice but I played with the gauge wheels and my hydraulic top link to try some different setups. My rake is a woods lr800 with gauge wheels and a cylinder to swing/twist it.

 

[DWW68]

Sorry about your luck. It can be fustrating. I hope they do the right thing and replace at no cost to you.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

I've found that the way you have your toplink adjusted will determine, in large part, how effective your landscape rake will be at clearing and gathering. My guess is you need to keep playing with your gauge wheel settings and your toplink.

 

[leeinmemphis]

Bob,

I kinda figured that I needed to play with the setup a little more. I just didn't expect a $2200 landscape rake to break. I guess I was a little upset that it broke so easily.