50 inch brush fork build (with quick-release lever)

[Xfaxman]

Been using the stick rakes on the brush fork, for land cleanup. First I used them in drag mode, and drug up huge piles of sticks, blackberry brambles, and english ivy. Backed the brush hog over the piles and "reduced" them to mulch, which I scooped up and dumped over a bank. In the end I got tired of mulching, and needed to just push some stuff back into the weeds and get the heck out of there. So turned the stick rakes around. It's much more difficult to push than to drag. I kinda thought it would be a little more difficult, but it's very much more difficult.

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Yep, much harder and I can't use float when pushing the 5' landscape rake.

 

[bellboy]

Would it be possible to get more pics of the quick attach? How did you attach the 5/8 rod to handle and so forth?

 

[Sodo]

5/8 solid rod is welded to 1/2" sq tubing. Sq tubing has a 1/4" hole in the end where the lever peg inserts. Double-nut is set so the pegs are kept engaged all the way thru the hole in the sq-tube.