Phantese, I owe you an apology. I was out playing on the tractor today, and decided to play with the york rake a little. And what I found was if I raise the rake slowly, it bounces. I guess I never really tried to go slow with it before. I usually just put it up, or down. I did do little grading with it before, but never noticed the bounce as you describe until today, just playing with it. And it didnt take much to get it to bounce.