Yard Rake Home Made

downsizingnow48 · Jul 27, 2014

Yes you are right. That is one reason I built it that way. Next yard chore is reseeding so am thinking how to cheaply and simply make a verticutter to be assembled to the tool bar in place of the rake.

JKR · Jul 28, 2014

I took another look at you build. It looks like it all bolted together. No welding. Any reason for that?
I do see in one photo you have a part on a welding table.

downsizingnow48 · Jul 28, 2014

There are three things welded.

Gage wheel caster frame - 1x2 wheel carrier cut at a 45 and welded to short length of 1x3.
Lower tabs for gage wheel height adjuster - the pix show these with u-bolts, I was experimenting with best location. They are now welded to the 2x2 locating arms.
Tool stand - 1 1/4 tubing welded to 1/4 inch plate.

Those three things had to be welded. The rest is take-apart. Either for maintenance, or because I might want to reconfigure into a different tool, or because I wasn't sure it would work and wanted to be able to re-do easily if need be.

JKR · Jul 28, 2014

Those three things had to be welded. The rest is take-apart. Either for maintenance, or because I might want to reconfigure into a different tool, or because I wasn't sure it would work and wanted to be able to re-do easily if need be.

Good call on not welding it all together. I like ability to change thing easy.

Daver1963 · Jul 28, 2014

Very good job. You, like myself, couldn't find what you needed so you built it. I built a yard rake with everything bolted together just because I don't have a welder.
Here is a link to that thread.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/317986-yard-rake-home-made-2.html

downsizingnow48 · Jul 28, 2014

Daver1963 pls post your thread, I want to study it!

Daver1963 · Jul 28, 2014

This is it.
Good landscape rake - cheap (Part 2 - Daver1963's attempt)

downsizingnow48 · Jul 28, 2014

maybe my browser is messed up. that link also takes me to my own thread instead of yours.

downsizingnow48 · Jul 28, 2014

OK I find the thread using tbn search. very interesting. I thought about using rubber teeth and also about using my TSC carryall. It looks like it works just fine too. I also see that a contributor on the thread made a good looking 3-gang rake. I have thought of having a second row of teeth. Thanks for the reference!

Daver1963 · Jul 28, 2014

I don't know how I managed to do that, LOL, sometimes I'm pretty talented without knowing it.
If anyone else would like to look at my rake the real link is below.
downsizingnow48, if you look at post 22 of my thread you'll see that I built a hitch for it. That was mainly to get it higher off the ground.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/300969-good-landscape-rake-cheap-part.html

(I checked it this time and it goes to my thread.)