Rake Do I need a Landscape rake?

txdon · Mar 14, 2005

I have a chance to pick up a used 6' landscape rake for $300. I have been working a lot with dirt the past month and I am questioning if one would benefit me. I don't know of anyone in the area that has one. Most of the soil is sandy and I am becoming quite efficient with a Top & tilt box blade. I'll post 2 pictures of my box blade work and pose the question: Would a Landscape rake benefit me? How?

pic#1 leveling out building site.

txdon · Mar 14, 2005

Making a trail.

Kyle_in_Tex · Mar 14, 2005

Txdon, if you wouldn't have posted the followup picture of the trail, I was going to ask if you were scraping your on turnpike??? Your tractor looks kind of small way across the other side of your "pad"!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Yes, Just what are landscape rakes used for???

RobS · Mar 14, 2005

I'd say you HAVE become quite proficient with that blade Don, you can come help me out any time! Having said that though, I'll confess that my landscape rake is one of my favorite implements. It's much more foregiving than a blade. Think of your blades as shovels and the rake as... well a rake. Once you've got the rough work done with the blade, do the final smoothing with the rake. Seed then turn the rake around backwards to rake the seed in a bit. I also use my rake for grading my drive, the tines to a better job of stirring up the fines in the stone.

$300 is an OK price for a used one but you can get a low end (King Kutter) for not much more than that new.

Again, it looks like you've more than mastered the grading touch /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

tinytractors · Mar 14, 2005

Great job on the grading with the box scraper... There are just some jobs that seem to need that final touch that only a rake can give. If the one for $300 is a sturdy one from a "brand name" then I would go with it, parts will always be available for it. It's not overpriced. A lifetime of use is left in it and you will find new uses for it on a regular basis. I use mine with a 3pt universal QA on my FEL to reach in and pull brush and vines from along my trails. I like the idea of going in forward and being able to see what I am doing.

txdon · Mar 14, 2005

<font color="blue"> I was going to ask if you were scraping your on turnpike???-Kyle </font>

If it wasn't so depressing I would be laughing. Think the Texas Department of Transportation will hire me?

Note: For those not in Lee County the new Trans-Texas Corridor, TTC35, has put an alternative route across our lands. We will not know until the Fall if we will have flowers or pavement next spring. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

KennedyDiesel · Mar 15, 2005

It looks pretty darn clean to me! While a guy can always use another toy, er implement, I'd say an old bed spring or section of chain link fence would be faster and more efective unless there are a lot of rocks or debris that I do not see.

texbaylea · Mar 15, 2005

TxDon

With all the competing interests in Texas it will be years before anything is decided. In general TTC is a good idea but there will be so many political fights about it, I seriously doubt that it will ever happen.

Keep up the good work. I recently bought a 6' landscape rake from our dealer in Houston at a good price. Been using it to rake up the small stuff left from my brush clearing and it works well for that.

Vernon

twinstackram · Mar 15, 2005

that's what I'm going through,do I buy a landscape rake or not,I just went yesterday and picked up a box blade,rea blade,and a scoop,but I thought a rake might be a nice attachment to have,maybe I should since my wife is being so generous,I i would have went ahead and got the rake but I was wanting a 5' and the smallest they had was 6' should I go ahead and get the 6' or wait for a 5'.

RobS · Mar 15, 2005

I'd get the biggest rake you can fit but here's the test... You'll want to be able to pivot it around without hitting the tires or anything. If you can do that with the six footer, I'd go for it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif