Landscape Rake, need opinion !

[Jrasband]

Reviving this thread.

I need a rake for cleaning up pine needles and small sticks. I don't need it for dirt, rock or soil work. Our property is not level and not a consistent pitch(lots of dips and rises). Would the tractor supply $800 rake work, or will i be cussing that purchase. Perhaps adding some gauge wheels…

I would wait till you could get a decent used one not the piece of crap at tractor supply. If you never took it off the driveway than piece of crap will do fine

 

[bdhsfz6]

+1 on York rakes. I've had mine with scarifier, gauge wheels, hyd. angle and grader blade for over 20 years. Not one broken part or repair in all that time while maintaining 1.25 miles of private road.

Prior to the York, I had several cheap rakes which didn't last long doing this heavy work.

If the work you do isn't rough, you could get away with a cheap one though. Keep in mind, you get what you pay for with this type of equipment.

 

[scootr]

My neighbor bought a rake and now he thinks its the right tool for every job, wrong.
But neighbors do as neighbors do

 

[jfsawatzky]

+1 on York rakes. I've had mine with scarifier, gauge wheels, hyd. angle and grader blade for over 20 years. Not one broken part or repair in all that time while maintaining 1.25 miles of private road.

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Prior to the York, I had several cheap rakes which didn't last long doing this heavy work.

If the work you do isn't rough, you could get away with a cheap one though. Keep in mind, you get what you pay for with this type of equipment.

York rakes are pricey but worth it in my opinion. I found an hd with scarifiers, blade, wheels and hydraulics at auction so I cannot tell you how it was used previously but it had a couple broken teeth and a broken arm for the blade. I suspect it was pushed past its breaking point. So while the features are great it’s not as strong as a dedicated box blade.

 

[Scrambler82]

I'm thinking on buying a Landscape Rake.
Looking at the "Tarter 6 Foot Landscape Rake 200 Series !

Wondering if anyone had a comment, please feel free !

Thanks
GOD Bless

I should add, although I too have started thinking this tool does more than people think it can.

My uses, light raking of fields, some heavier brush, grading my 1/4 mile driveway; the driveway grading was a discovery, I tried it to straighten out some stone I laid out on the driveway and to my surprise it did a decent job with less clean up than my grader scraper.
Overall, a great tool for he tractor.

 

[nyone]

I should add, although I too have started thinking this tool does more than people think it can.

My uses, light raking of fields, some heavier brush, grading my 1/4 mile driveway; the driveway grading was a discovery, I tried it to straighten out some stone I laid out on the driveway and to my surprise it did a decent job with less clean up than my grader scraper.
Overall, a great tool for he tractor.

Grade scrapers sound like the right tool to touch up a driveway but in all reality there to destructive and move stone around to much. A box blade does prety well touching up a rutted road.

I have a gravel driveway with a turn. Generaly I run the rake angled to bring in the loose material from the edges then hit everything with a box blade. I dont own a land plane.

 

[nyone]

+1 on York rakes. I've had mine with scarifier, gauge wheels, hyd. angle and grader blade for over 20 years. Not one broken part or repair in all that time while maintaining 1.25 miles of private road.

View attachment 2905479

Prior to the York, I had several cheap rakes which didn't last long doing this heavy work.

If the work you do isn't rough, you could get away with a cheap one though. Keep in mind, you get what you pay for with this type of equipment.

That thing is 20yrs old and maintains over 1mi of road? It still looks like 98% of the paint is on the rake teeth.

 

[bdhsfz6]

That thing is 20yrs old and maintains over 1mi of road? It still looks like 98% of the paint is on the rake teeth.

Sorry to mislead. The pic is 15 years old.

The rake has wear on it now but is still fully functional with most of the paint intact. I'd post another pic but it's put away for the winter season.

 

[therrien]

I made a heavy Landscape rake years ago and it worked great for spreading hundreds of yards of loam and cleaning up stone from fill but it was too heavy for cleaning sticks and small branches off of the lawn etc. i then purchased a Pine straw rake and that was great for pine needles But that was terrible for the sticks on the turf also. My cure is I dethatch and then suck up and chop up what I can with a scag tiger cub with a peco collection system tweaked with 8
" hoses. This will chop and collect any branch 1.5" and smaller without clogging.
There is no other great attachment that I found for the tractor for the sticks and branches. When my son moved out and got married I had to find some way other than raking by hand.

 

[Scrambler82]

I like the Grader/Planer, I don’t find it takes too much,in fact with a little adjustments the Tractor / Land Plane more right a long… but the Landscape Rake is a good quick fix.