Hi Carl. I owned a 'Rake for several seasons, and while it did a great job with surface needles, once they got down into the grass, I found they matted up and nothing had the power to lift them up. I'm going to investigate the pinestraw rake further. Thanks!Get a tow behind lawn vac - Trac Vac, Cyclone Rake etc...
My arms are about to fall off from hand raking white pine needles. I must have raked several cubic yards of needles today. There has to be a better way. I hand raked the area once creating many small piles of needles, then raked them into my loader. Afterwards, I kind of scoured the lawn with the rake to bring any stragglers to the the surface, then ran over them with the mower deck and a power bagger to suck them off the lawn. I'd like to find a 3pt rake with lots of wire tines that I could drag around to bring the matted needles to the top of the grass but wouldn't damage the lawn itself. Does an implement like that exist? Suggestions eagerly accepted!
Don't listen to these naysayers. Pine trees suck. These guys must be thinking of firs or something. I can't think of a single good thing to say about pine trees - they kill everything else, they're ugly as heck, drip sap all over everything, turn the entire region yellow once a year, AND they drop a billion needles all over everywhere. I just raked up a bunch needles myself this weekend. Yuck.
You need one of these (so do I):
Harper Goossen Debris Blowers
JayC
I can't think of a single good thing to say about pine trees - they kill everything else, they're ugly as heck, drip sap all over everything, turn the entire region yellow once a year, AND they drop a billion needles all over everywhere.