Snow Equipment Owning/Operating Landscape rake and snow

[ccsial]

ccsial, geez now I wish my rake was all painted up and clean.lol. Not my color but,nice looking set up. You will find that the carpet works really well to keep any stone from bouncing of the rear of the tractor or even you. I had been hit a time or two on my old open station JD870. I also was amazed at the amount of little stone chips on the back of the 870.

Sincerely, Dirt

I took that shortly after I painted it last year. It won't stay that way though. I'm looking forward to grading the trails this year with the carpet. I even have some blue carpet left over from my boat. Thanks again.

 

[dirtworksequip]

ccsial, blue tractor,blue rake and blue carpet..............you have OCD more than me.............everything has to match. hahahaha. One other thing. If you are doing a task with the rake and the carpet seems to be messing things up or getting in the way, you can either bungee it up out of the way or roll it up and cable tie it.

Sincerely, Dirt

 

[ccsial]

Dirt: I just happen to have the blue carpet but I do like things to look good. At this time I only use the rake for grading about 1.5 miles of gravel trails. Carpet won't affect that. I do that about every two weeks. The ATV's mess them up since we ride them quite a bit.

Al

 

[ragkar]

I never thought of using a rake for snow. Of course I have an asphalt driveway, but I might consider snow raking my yard!
Seriously, instead of grommets you might have used a strip of metal strapping. Such as a six foot piece of 1/8" by 2 inch angle iron holding down the carpet to the rake.
Have you ever considered that yard snow raking might be an unknown business opportunity?

 

[tommu56]

Solo

I never though of it either.

But after looking at it that dark stones looks like a solar collector for the drive to to melt the snow.

tom

 

[NewToy]

Rake works good for me too!

John

 

[dirtworksequip]

ragkar, there have been times when I have used the rake on black top and concrete to scrape ice or packed snow clear down to the road surface.

tommu56, the exposed stones do pick up some radiant heat from the sun and help speed up melting.

I think I would invest in a snowblower if I was going to clear yards professionally.

Sincerely,Dirt

 

[ccsial]

Dirt: I build the bracket to hold the carpet today. I will mount it to the 16" square tube that holds the tines with two 3/8 bolts. The carpet is cut and sitting to the left side. I plan on keeping it almost to the ground. I can always shorten it. I will mount the carpet with 13 1/4-20 bolts and large washers.

I happened to think I won't be able to see the bottom of the rake now. I wonder if that will make it more difficult to do grading. Has this been an issue for you?

I just had another thought. I have some heavy duty stainless screen I could try too. I could see through that a bit. I'll try the carpet first. Won't know till spring now.

 

[dirtworksequip]

ccsial,that carpet is a perfect match for FORD BLUE. It will look really nice.
As far as not being able to see the rake..............I guess it would depend what task you are doing with it. I don't need to see the tines when I am grading the road or snow removal. I've done that so many times I can do it by sound and feel alone. If you find you need to see the tines, just roll it up and bungee the carpet out of your way as I suggested in an earlier post. I think you will find that even though it blocks your view of the tines, you will get use to that and still be able to do the same quality work whether you can see the tines or not.

Sincerely, Dirt