Landscape Rake or Drag Harrow or ?? for weeds

[KennyV]

it moves too much material around and it is easy to mess up the grade since it is rigidly attached to the tractor. I created washboard waves

That is where the gage wheels would work perfectly... KennyV

 

[flINTLOCK]

If you have gauge wheels and don't have to lift the rake during the grooming, you could omit the toplink hookup and the rake will follow the preexisting contour.

 

[KennyV]

If you have gauge wheels and don't have to lift the rake during the grooming, you could omit the toplink hookup and the rake will follow the preexisting contour.

And if you want/need to lift use a slip type top link of a chain top link... KennyV

 

[easygo]

Thats for the greta info. A quick question, the purpose of the gauge wheels on the landscape rake is? I am guessing to keep one side of the rake from "riding up" if you hit a rough or tough patch

They gauge how deep the rake can dig into the ground. By setting the gauge wheels let's say 1" above the line of the tip of the tines it will allow the tines to dig in about 1" or so. The wheels will roll on the surface that was smoothed by the rake. It works kind of like a road grader on a much smaller scale.
Just set the desired height and drive forward. You will know what works best for your particular arena condition after trying it out a few times.

 

[gazoo1]

Hello,
I have been lurking here for about 1 year and have gotten some great information as well as seeing some good project and tractor "****".:laughing:
I have found some related posts, but nothing that deals with my issue directly. My wife and I have "inherited" a sand horse arena--the neighbor was running a commercial stable for jumpers and dressage, but packed up and moved about 18 months ago.
The arena is great (4-6 inches of sand on a compacted road base), but now that it is only being used by the wife on the week-ends, we are constantly battling the weeds that are popping up from seeds being blown in.
I am getting a power sprayer for Roundup to regularly spray, but I am still left with the dead grass and weeds that come up easily by hand.
Being a firm believer in not doing anything by hand that could be done by a piece equipment, I have trying to decide what attachment I could buy that could help weed the sand arena.
I was thinking about a chain harrow, but I am concerned that it would just bounce along the surface. I have also been wondering about a Landscape rake as I could adjust the depth and the tines are close enough together that there is a better chance of "hooking" the dead weeds/grass. The TR3 arena groomer looks pretty, but if I spent that much on a tool and it didn't do what I needed, the wife would never let me forget it.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Todd

hey buddy a harrow is great for you but not a chain harrow you can also put wieght on top of a steel cage harrow for exstra depth.:thumbsup:

 

[ustmd]

As the OP in this thread, I thought I should follow up. I got a landscape rake for the area and it did a great good pulling up the grass--the arena had gotten over grown.

Two issues:

1. As other posters stated, I did have issues with the rake moving material around the arena. This maninly would happen when the tines became clogged with grass/roots

2. Pulling the grass up with the tractor/landscape rake was the easy part. T^he hard part was collecting the grass out of the piles of sand/grass left all over the arena when I lifted the rake to clear it.

Well, I guess you can't have a completely automated solution to every problem.