Rake Landscape rake recommendations

[jeff9366]

Check out the Blue SIMILAR THREADS Box at the foot of this page.

"Landscape Rake or Pine Straw Rake?"

 

[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.