Rake Bought harley rake & 4/1 bucket

[dangerdoc]

YES! I got the rake & bucket last Thursday and used them to do a lawn for a construction job I did. The rake is fantastic. I can't compare it to a Harley brand rake, but this Landpride rake is a beast.

The bucket is great, too. Nice & heavy duty. Only bad thing is it looks like the paint will be mostly gone after a short time. Paint looks nice, but isn't bonding to the Kubota orange real well.

The only real bad thing was hydraulic connectors. Man, what a PITA Nothing on the tractor fit the 2 new attachments. I had to get 2 reducers & 6 new pioneer type connectors to the tune of ~$120.

I'll try to go over & get photos today....kinda busy in the office right now.

Talk to the guy you bought the pioneer connectors from, the flat faced connectors are MUCH more expensive than the pioneer. He may buy them from you used for more than you payed for the pioneer connectors new. You should be able to at least get some of your money back.

 

[Builder]

Pictures are up!

4 in 1 bucket:

90" Landpride power angle power rake

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Thanks for the pics, all look good. I'm sure you will have more orange showing on your bucket than you would want, but it is kind of hopeless to keep it covered up. The paint that these guys put on just does not hold up like the powder coating that the OEM guys use. Both of my 7520 buckets have red showing through. My digging bucket was painted professionally and I was told that the paint was as good or better than power coating. Guess what, red paint showing through after the first time it was used, oh well, it's a tractor and it still looks better than the original bucket color.

 

[ScottAR]

Very Nice.... Someday...

 

[Reg]

Let's hope so. I have 2 jobs waiting final grading.

I was really torn over buying a 72" or a 90" power rake.

My rear tires are 72", so it might cover my tracks when straight, but it won't when angled.

So I sprung for the big boy. Hope my jobs stay big, too.

Do the arithmetic;
15 degrees, right ?
Cos 15 = 0.9659nnnnnnn
so you get 96 1/2 percent of it at full angle, about 3 inches lost on 6ft, 1 1/2 inches per side.
Heck, dirt spills over that much, who's gonna know ?
(-:

 

[thunderworks]

I'm just curious about the rake . . . what is it's primary purpose? What's the application? I've seen numerous references to a "Harley" rake, but have never known what it is.

 

[Reg]

I'm just curious about the rake . . . what is it's primary purpose? What's the application? I've seen numerous references to a "Harley" rake, but have never known what it is.

It is kinda/sorta like a rototiller, except instead on KNIVES to cut the soil and toss it around it has n*pples (that shouldn't get censored) on a long cylindrical br**st - Oops, I mean drum.
The result is more a grinding than cutting action and it doesn't go as deep as a tiller.
It also doesn't hook underneath rocks, roots, junk, etc., it tends to bounce off them more easily.
The primary purpose and raison d'etre is to grind up and level the top few (two or three) inches of soil or old lawn to prepare a seed bed, typically for lawns.
There is an implicit goal in suburban lawn work to not get down too far, it leads to the discovery of things that are probably just as well left buried. Rocks, roots, bicycles, etc., most importantly construction debris.
So that is at least part of the reason to use a Harley rake vs a tiller, which would probably go too deep and find that stuff.
I think leaving the deeper soil undisturbed means you can walk on it without making such deep dents, unlike if you had tilled it 8 or 9 inches deep, which would require some serious rollering before use by foot traffic.

 

[dfkrug]

I've seen numerous references to a "Harley" rake, but have never known what it is.

This is what I was gonna ask. Thx, THUNDER.

Are those n*ipples carbide? What does the hyd cylinder do? And where
is the V-twin engine?

 

[Reg]

This is what I was gonna ask. Thx, THUNDER.

Are those n*ipples carbide? What does the hyd cylinder do? And where
is the V-twin engine?

Yes, carbide n*pples - not to be rubbed up against, despite one's perversity.
The hydraulic cylinder provides for angling of the whole thing up to 15 degrees left or right of straight across.
I have seen rental units that had the sylinder replaced by a bar with several holes drilled in it to provide a number of settings for renters who's tractors were either without hydraulic outlets or wouldn't be worth changing couplers for.
Some folk probably think their tractors could get hydraulic cooties from a rental cylinder, so wouldn't use it anyway.

Don't confuse a "Harley Rake" with "Hardly Doesn'tRun".
99% of the later are still on the road,,,,,,,,

long pause.......

....... the other one made it home.

 

[Builder]

It is kinda/sorta like a rototiller, except instead on KNIVES to cut the soil and toss it around it has n*pples (that shouldn't get censored) on a long cylindrical br**st - Oops, I mean drum.
The result is more a grinding than cutting action and it doesn't go as deep as a tiller.
It also doesn't hook underneath rocks, roots, junk, etc., it tends to bounce off them more easily.
The primary purpose and raison d'etre is to grind up and level the top few (two or three) inches of soil or old lawn to prepare a seed bed, typically for lawns.
There is an implicit goal in suburban lawn work to not get down too far, it leads to the discovery of things that are probably just as well left buried. Rocks, roots, bicycles, etc., most importantly construction debris.
So that is at least part of the reason to use a Harley rake vs a tiller, which would probably go too deep and find that stuff.
I think leaving the deeper soil undisturbed means you can walk on it without making such deep dents, unlike if you had tilled it 8 or 9 inches deep, which would require some serious rollering before use by foot traffic.

Reg,

Good stuff and very entertaining in typical Reg fashion!

Only thing I would add is this thing can go deeper than 2-3 inches (will that be censored? )

I can get most of the whole drum under in soft stuff-more like 4-5 inches, but she bogs down pretty good.