Question about using a landscape rake

[lzicc]

I have a KK landscape rake and I noticed that you can turn 180 degrees. What would be the purpose of doing that?

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I have a KK landscape rake and I noticed that you can turn 180 degrees. What would be the purpose of doing that?

I use mine turned around for smoothing. This way you don't collect much material.

 

[RollingsFarms]

There's a nice informative video on YouTube by everythingattatchments about all the uses for a landscape rake.

 

[lzicc]

I like that. I wonder if that would work well on a limestone driveway. When I use it on the driveway the regular way, it picks up the too many stones.

I use mine in turned around for smoothing. This way you don't collect much material.

 

[jeff9366]

Going forward with rake in reverse you can shallowly cover seed beds, especially wildlife food plots.

Sometimes a LR works better pushing yard debris into piles when reversed and the tractor is operating in reverse.

 

[Wolfy]

I run in reverse when I do not wish to drive over piles. Especially piles that could puncture tires, namely old boards complete with nails poking out.

 

[cattoon]

I like that. I wonder if that would work well on a limestone driveway. When I use it on the driveway the regular way, it picks up the too many stones.

Yes it will indeed,that's how i smooth mine after boxblading the holes out and then using the rake to crown.

 

[PhysAssist]

That's how we smooth and level gravel with our ROBB too, run forward with the blade facing backwards, it's like using a spatula to smooth out frosting on a cake.

In fact, I'm looking around on EBay for a new shorter top link to make it tilt forward even more and allow it to smooth more and transport even less stone from one place to another.

 

[sixdogs]

I use mine turned around for smoothing. This way you don't collect much material.

Wait a minute. I don't know abut this and from the comments I'd say I'm the last to know.

Can you explain more how this works for dirt of gravel a little larger than you have? Sounds like a great idea.

 

[jeff9366]

SIXDOGS: I thought you knew EVERYTHING related to tractors and women.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Wait a minute. I don't know abut this and from the comments I'd say I'm the last to know.

Can you explain more how this works for dirt of gravel a little larger than you have? Sounds like a great idea.

Sorry, but since I do not have any "dirt of gravel" a little larger than I have, (other wise I would have it) I can not definitively describe how it would work. I imagine the same, it would not collect as much material simply because the tines are leaning in a way to be pulled over the material, not digging in or collecting it.

 

[HEC]

I never really wanted a LR but after reading these ideas now I do , thanks guys . My wife is going to ban me from looking at this forum if she finds out where I get all the ideas from .

 

[sixdogs]

SIXDOGS: I thought you knew EVERYTHING related to tractors and women.

Just because I learned how to get a wife to approve a tractor purchase by pushing some numbers around, we shouldn't draw any conclusions.

I can navigate the finance end of confusion but aside from that I'm as adrift as anyone else.

 

[bcp]

“There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.”

― Will Rogers

 

[sixdogs]

Sorry, but since I do not have any "dirt of gravel" a little larger than I have, (other wise I would have it) I can not definitively describe how it would work. I imagine the same, it would not collect as much material simply because the tines are leaning in a way to be pulled over the material, not digging in or collecting it.

I meant dirt OR gravel. Sorry.

What has frustrated me about a rake is the clumping of material. Then I have a small pile that is difficult to rake out. I suppose wheels on the back would work but factory wheels for a Woods rake are almost $400 (!) and I haven't made the move to build a set yet.

 

[boggen]

3pt hitch landscape rake = hand held metal garden rake, but up sized for a tractor.

the springy-ness (if that is a word) of the tines that make up a 3pt hitch landscape rake. allows them normally to be pulled forward, and allow each tine to kinda hip/hop skip across the ground, if it is to hard to dig in. at same time let material (dirt / soil) flow through the tines.

when ya turn the 3pt hitch landscape rack backwards, and drive forward, it is like turn a hand held metal garden rake upside down. to smooth stuff out. the tines are not digging in, but rather sliding across the ground to help smooth / level out the dirt/soil.

adjusting the "top link" of 3pt hitch, can give different angles, much like you might adjust angles when using a hand held rake. to kinda feather out the dirt / rock or what not. TNT(top n tilt) for 3pt hitch really shines in this aspect.

do you have a garden with some various melons (grown in some hills)? break out the 3pt hitch landscape rake, in spring / early summer before the vines start growing out, and drive a few passes around the melons to rip out the weeds. without taking a bunch of dirt and moving it around.