Is Landscape Rake the Correct Attachment?

[savaytse66]

I have about 2 acres of lawn that I cut. I try to cut it weekly, and even so, I get a lot of lines/piles of grass. After cutting, I've been floating my bucket with Piranha tooth bar and "push-raking" the grass into piles, then scooping it up for the compost pile. I was considering a yard vac of some sort, but I wonder if a landscape rake wouldn't be a better investment.

From what I've seen, landscape rakes are pretty aggressive. Am I asking for trouble using one on the lawn? I have a BX25 tractor. If this is the right tool for the job, what other uses would I have for one? My 2 acre lawn sits in the middle of 60+ acres of pasture. I'll be creating and maintaining an 80' x 80' garden with a 52" 3-pt tiller. And I have a 1,000' hard pack/gravel driveway. I already have a 48" box blade.

 

[jeff9366]

Is the Backhoe mounted most of the time?

If the 3-Pt. is free, consider a Pine Straw Rake. Everything Attachments | Skid Steer Attachments, Tractor Attachments, 3 Point Hitch Attachments, and Farm Tractor Implements.

 

[bcp]

Landscape rake with gauge wheels, adjusted to just skim the grass, may work. Good driveway tool, too.

Bruce

 

[CADplans]

The landscape rake is surely less aggressive than the Piranha bar,,

With that said,, I can not pull my landscape rake across the yard to pick up wind blown sticks without damaging high spots in the lawn.
I tried this on Monday,, I stopped using the landscape rake, and switched to hand picking.

I do move dump truck load size amounts of leaves with the landscape rake,,,
it is GREAT for that.

Grass clippings? it will depend on the height of the pile of grass.

 

[TractorGuy]

You would have to have a super level lawn or gauge wheels to use a landscape rake. I don't have any better suggestions.

 

[PHPaul]

Might work, but it certainly wouldn't be my first choice.

Landscape rakes are mostly intended for leveling and spreading loose soil and getting the rocks and roots out of it. It may gather wet grass, but dry grass will filter between the tines. Either way, all it's going to do is windrow it, I don't think it would work very well for gathering it up and dragging it any distance.

I've tried about every solution there is for the same problem and haven't come up with anything that works short of a full vac system hooked directly to the discharge on the mower deck. I don't have enough grass to justify the expense of a system like that, but I've used other peoples and they do work slick.

I used a landscape rake in an attempt to groom my driveway. Okay for moving loose gravel around, but worthless for really tearing up the compacted gravel to fix potholes. Once I found a box blade with scarifiers, I sold the landscape rake and never looked back.

 

[airbiscuit]

Did you look at the Pine Straw Rake? That would do the trick. If you don't want to spend that much $$, buy a dethatcher and pull it with your lawn mower.

 

[Sprinklerman]

Cut the grass more often , you wont get piles .

 

[AchingBack]

Pine straw rake is your best option. I have both implements. The landscape rake is going to do some damage if you don't have gauge wheels, or if you're extremely careful.

After bush hogging my pastures I wait a couple of days, then rake into piles, fork it into my garden cart, and put into the compost or, spread on areas of bare ground.

 

[bcp]

Get a push mower. Start at the house and mow outwards for 1/2 hour. Move your pasture fence in to that point. Quit being a slave to a lawn.

Bruce (No mower, no lawn, just ferns and fir needles)