Rake Is a rake suitable to clean up bark and sticks?

[ruffdog]

Sounds like you should use a pine straw rake. Very thin tines but more of them. They are springy and don't dig in. They are also fairly inexpensive as most implements go.

Something like these...

6 FT Pine Straw Needle Rake for Cat 1, 3 Point

Pine Needle Rakes | Pine Straw Rakes | Prepare Pine Needles For Baling with the Everything Attachments Pine Needle Rake 72" Length

3-point Pine Straw Rake 5 Feet, Red | Agri Supply 82938A

Field Tuff FTF-6PSR3PT 3 Point 6 in. Pine Straw Rake - Walmart.com - Walmart.com

I agree^^ Just mimic a hand tool that works good. A hand rake with a wide tine spacing doesn't work. If a leaf rake works, then the pine straw rake is the tool.

 

[JohnnyMX]

A landscape rake would work great for you based on the photos. It helps a lot if you don't have a grass lawn under the mess that you are worried about tearing apart. I have grass and the wheels help as long as you aren't on any major angles or it will still dig. I'm sure the pine straw rake would also work, but based on that photo the landscape would work. If you are worried about tearing things up I'd go pine straw, otherwise the landscape rake has many other uses. Not sure about ice scarifying... I'd say dont count on it.

 

[Thunder chicken]

So I borrowed the rake and it seems to work ok for cleaning up my messes. A bit more sand stayed caught up in the debris than I was hoping but could be my technique. It did do wonders on my gravel driveway however! Pulled all the loose material off the edges without scraping lots of material like the blade does.
This one is a bit small for my M, so I’ll keep looking for a used one or just keep borrowing this one the few times a year I actually need it!

 

[Thomas]

So I borrowed the rake and it seems to work ok for cleaning up my messes. A bit more sand stayed caught up in the debris than I was hoping but could be my technique. It did do wonders on my gravel driveway however! Pulled all the loose material off the edges without scraping lots of material like the blade does.
This one is a bit small for myView attachment 671070View attachment 671071 M, so I’ll keep looking for a used one or just keep borrowing this one the few times a year I actually need it!

Looks like it did good job sure better than hand rake and rock fork.

 

[BrokenTrack]

You need a rock and root rake which is made for the very task you are doing.

I made a mini-homemade version of one when I did some logging on my land, and the skidder operators spread limbs over 5 acres of a nice hay field instead of traveling in a straight path across it.

It worked pretty good as it is a lot easier to drive around in circles rather then blistering hands raking and picking up sticks. (It works for rocks too though).

I had too many to windrow to the edge of the field, so after a pretty good berm was built up, I pushed the berm towards the edge of the field with my bucket, and started again. The time it took me to build the rock and root rake (1/2 a day) more then made up for the days of hand-pulling I would have done, and I have a rock and root rake for next time.