Rake Landscape rake recommendations

[Sonotech54]

I'm looking for a landscape rake to get up small sticks and limbs on my property. I live on 5 acres with a lot of trees and after a storm it can be a nightmare. Recently lost 8 trees in a storm and I have heard a landscape rake is the way to go on clean up and also on preparing for reseeding. I have a JD 1025 R with imatch quick hitch.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to size and brand I could use with imatch?

 

[Wolfy]

Woods and LandPride are among the best.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

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I've never used a landscape rake, but if I bought one I'd want to be able to put gauge wheels on it. Some of the ones sold by Everything Attachments can accept gauge wheels.

 

[Member]

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I've never used a landscape rake, but if I bought one I'd want to be able to put gauge wheels on it. Some of the ones sold by Everything Attachments can accept gauge wheels.

I second the Everything Attachments recommendation. Here was my experience:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/267529-everything-attachments-customer-service.html

I still don't know of any other landscape rake that *actually* swings 360 degrees with a quick hitch. I use it both forwards and backwards all the time.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

My Leinbach rake has been pretty rugged and seems to be well made, broke a few tines over the years but you'll do that with any of them.

 

[jeff9366]

I also use an ETA Landscape Rake. They have exceptionally good tines, with perfect blend of stiffness and flex. Landscape Rakes are used on an angle half the time. On an angle, dirt moves across the face of the rake, filling in low spots. If you do not have rear remote hydraulics you will need gauge wheels for a smooth finish when grading. Gauge wheels stick out quite a bit (Photo #1) when rake is used on an angle, reducing maneuverability in tight areas. Gauge wheels pick up trash which needs to be removed periodically.

You want a Landscape Rake 12" wider than your outside tire width, so when it is used ON AN ANGLE your tire tracks are covered completely.

I am not sure you will find a Landscape Rake up to your expectations for twig cleanup. Others use Pine Straw Rakes for twig cleanup.

I use my Ratchet Rake for consolidation. Ratchet Rake may work better for you for lawn prep, depending on exactly what you need to do. Ratchet Rake is a bucket attachment, therefore you cannot use it on an angle.

I would research Ratchet Rake and Pine Straw Rake before making a decision in favor of a Landscape Rake.

 

[Stonehaller]

The tines on a landscape rake are pretty stiff. You cannot really run a landscape rake on existing grass without tearing it up. With gage wheels you may be able to set the rake so it is just above the lawn to catch branches and sticks, but your lawn will have to be reasonable smooth for the rake tines not to gouge the lawn. With your tractor you may only need a 4 foot rake and that may follow the ground contour pretty well. Make sure you get a rake wide enough to cover the rear wheel width when the rake is angled.

 

[Gary Fowler]

The tines on a landscape rake are too close to shed any dirt that is picked up along with the twigs, so be careful with the height setting. I tried using mine to windrow some rocks and it didn't work that well. They are great fro grading a road to spread out gravel and any other grading as long as there is no grass thatch to clog up the works.

The pine needle rake would probably be your best bet with the rubber mounted tines that flex and give.

 

[Gem99ultra]

My Leinbach rake has been pretty rugged and seems to be well made, broke a few tines over the years but you'll do that with any of them.

X2. Leinbach has been good for my use.

 

[Daver1963]

I'll echo what Gary Fowler said - you probably want a pine needle rake.
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[jeff9366]

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[JRP]

I got the 6' county line from TSC. It rotates 360 and works with iMatch, which is great, but the horizontal beam is steel channel that does not work in torque loading. It should or could be round to resist twist. mine is now twisted about 10 degrees, so the center is lower than the ends. I can tell County line does not have a real mechanical engineer.

I would sell mine if I could and buy a good quality one.

When I try to buy cheap it bites me and I end up later buying what I should have.

BTW, with sticks they pile up between the tines and tires, so it actually works better to ratate 180 degrees and back up pushing the sticks backwards.

 

[Steve_in_SEMich]

I also have the 6' County Line = works extremely well at removing most vegetation from the woods, along with sticks, rocks, branches, trash, etc..

Do not use it on a lawn. But for clearing woods, it is my most useful tool. Revealed a couple of old, large stumps that I wasn't aware and it mostly aligns large twigs and branches for picking up with the front forks and moving onto higher piles.

Happy with mine.

Steve

 

[Rocky Hoffler]

My Leinbach rake has been pretty rugged and seems to be well made, broke a few tines over the years but you'll do that with any of them.

Been having trouble getting Leinbach equipment for last year or so. the dealer I used said something was going on with this company. good product at a good price.so much for that I also have found pinestraw rake does better at raking sticks and such land scape rake is great for smoothing and leveling but not nuch for raking.

 

[IslandTractor]

Despite their name, landscape rakes are not very useful for cleaning up storm debris or other material from lawns or fields. They are really just too aggressive and will rip up the sod if set low enough to do a good job of collecting debris. They are most useful in dirt where there is no concern about protecting the grass.

 

[sdef]

The collective experience and wisdom of these posts are steering you away from a landscape rake for your stated purposes. I do not have a pine straw rake but will purchase one in the future for similar purposes as what you state. I do have a similar ETA landscape rake with gauge wheels that jeff9366 has and would not even try to use it as a fine grooming tool.

 

[Fallon]

Been having trouble getting Leinbach equipment for last year or so. the dealer I used said something was going on with this company. good product at a good price.so much for that I also have found pinestraw rake does better at raking sticks and such land scape rake is great for smoothing and leveling but not nuch for raking.

Leinbach went out of business a few month back. No luck getting a hold them about a hydraulic down pressure upgrade for the 3pt post hole digger I got used from a friend. Voicemail said they were gone if I remember.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Leinbach went out of business a few month back. No luck getting a hold them about a hydraulic down pressure upgrade for the 3pt post hole digger I got used from a friend. Voicemail said they were gone if I remember.

That's too bad. I've got one of their pulverizers and it's a quality piece.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Leinbach went out of business a few month back. No luck getting a hold them about a hydraulic down pressure upgrade for the 3pt post hole digger I got used from a friend. Voicemail said they were gone if I remember.

Didnt know that about Leinbach, my rake is my only attachment by them and at one time when i bought it years back they had a good reputation for being solid and well built, least around here they did.

For what its worth on my rake i removed every other tine vs having one every inch like it came with, with all them on it was basically acting like a straight blade and wasnt letting much dirt go thru the tines, and in certain places on my place im clearing i think i need to remove even more tines so it only catches the bigger stuff. My rake is one of my most used attachments for land clearing.