In my opinion you need EITHER rear remotes or gauge wheels to make full use of a Landscape Rake. Gauge wheels can be a bother when rake is used on an angle; the forward gauge wheel and bracket protrude quite a distance beyond the rake. (Photo #2)
I use my ETA Landscape Rake regularly for trail and farm road maintenance and for smoothing food plots, which some day may be fields. ETA Landscape Rake is sufficiently stout to emulate, to a certain extent, a rear angle blade working sandy Florida soil which has been hit with a Disc Harrow two or three times. (I disc my food plots twice per year, once before Spring planting, once before Fall planting.)
A Ratchet Rake works reasonably well as a debris rake. However, it cannot be angled, nor does it filter. A Ratchet Rake does rip out brush amazingly well. (Many Ratchet Rake review vids on You Tube.)
From York-Modern, manufacturer of York brand Landscape Rakes:
A Landscape Rake follows to distribute loose material, grade, level and remove oversize stone and debris.
Angle adjustments permit discharging material to either side. (User tip: When angled and using caster wheels best results will be achieved if the wheel closest to the tractor is higher off the ground than the one farthest from the tractor. This allows the end of the rake closest to the tractor to rake heavier than the end farthest from the tractor, creating a better screening action as the material moves across the front of the rake.)
The vibrating action of the Rake Teeth breaks up sod and mulches the soil. (User tip: The faster you can go the better the vibrating action will be.)
Pulverized soil passes between the teeth, while large stones and debris are gathered into a row. This screening action produces an ideal finished surface, ready for seeding or sod.
