Jchonline
Elite Member
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2018
- Messages
- 3,071
- Location
- Red Feather Lakes, CO
- Tractor
- Kubota L6060, KX040-4, M7060, X1100C, M62(S)
I know I am probably the first to say this but I am disappointed with my landscape rake. I am not disappointed with the quality of the rake, I bought it from Everything Attachments and the workmanship and materials are top quality.
Problem is it doesn't seem to do a very good job for what I bought it for. I have lots of trees and lots of limbs. Previously, I hooked up my 12 ft utility trailer to my tractor and drove around and picked up limbs by hand. It is a lot of work and takes a lot of time. I thought the rake would make the job much easier but it hasn't.
The problems I have encountered are that I am frequently jumping off the tractor to turn the rake around for pulling and pushing limbs. Also, every time I rake limbs to a location I have to jump off the tractor and kick the limbs off that are tangled in the times. Also, my land is not perfectly flat and it seems that I rake more leaves sometimes than I do limbs.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to improve my use of the rake? At this point, I kind of regret that I bought it.
I wish I did Albert. The time to ask about using an implement for a particular task is before you buy it. A hard lesson most of us have paid for as well. Every other tine might help a bit, but you are also running over the limbs before you rake them. This may lead to a larger one getting caught in your machine, and the smaller ones breaking into such small pieces they cant be raked.
Perhaps listing it on CL to see if you can recover the cost would be an option as well.