shane
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Has anyone ever used a hay rake for leaves? Would it work? I have 5 acres that is mostly wide open but surrounded by trees that dump a great deal of leave each fall was wondering if this might be a possibility.
Has anyone ever used a hay rake for leaves? Would it work? I have 5 acres that is mostly wide open but surrounded by trees that dump a great deal of leave each fall was wondering if this might be a possibility.
No, but I tried using a York lawn rake behind my tractor. It didn't work too well. Set too low and it would gouge divots out of the lawn. Set too high and it wouldn't work at all.
About the only success that I had was letting the leaves accumulate so that they were a heavy layer. That is covering the green completely. Then the leaves would accumulate before the rake and act as a plow pushing more leaves before them.
Last year I had more success dragging a lawnsweeper behind my lawn tractor. But for final touch I had to get out the blower and hand rake.