Landscape rake

tshonte · Mar 9, 2025

Hi all...please forgive if my questions are naive as I am still learning the world of farm equipment that i use for my 2 rescue racehorses. As you probably suspect I am not mechanically inclined but have learned a lot over 20 years using my Kubota 7800 and attachments. We recently had to take down 23 pines killed by pine bark beetle and now it looks like we are needing to take down another 10. These trees are between 60-80'. The slash and needles are near impossible to get up so i can seed my pasture. I tried our tine harrow with poor results. I just saw posts on landscape rakes and wondered if this might be the answer. The pasture is not totally level but reasonable for driving our 16' hay trailer thru or on horseback. If you think this is the right tool...what brand do you recommend that has sturdy tines, should i get: 4,5 or 6' and do i need to get the wheel attachment? Lastly...could this be used to smooth out my riding arena area.

Appreciate all your recommendations

jeepcoma · Mar 9, 2025

I'm looking to get a landscape rake this spring as well for clearing fallen limbs and debris all over the yard, maintaining some new trails I've cut, as well as trying to improve our horse pasture.

My research is pointing at the moment to the Ignite Attachments 72 Inch Tine Rake with the Wheel Kit. From what I can tell, comparing pictures, it's the same product as the JD Frontier brand, just in black instead of green, and cheaper. Same Made-in-USA. Specs are identical. I don't think there are many manufactures of these, and the other main OEM for these is the style with the angle adjuster on the top side (where the angle adjuster holds the rake as part of the pivot point, instead of a castle nut).

Everyone seems to recommend the wheel kit, so that's what I'll be getting, to do both land I want to scrape up, as well as lawn. I have a hydraulic top-and-tilt on my 3-point, and the wheels will let be adjust the aggressiveness on the fly, to figure out how I need to operate it for the results I need.

I'm not sure what the "best" size is, but I'm leaning towards bigger. I have a 60" mower deck so that's my minimum, but 72" might be better so even when I have it angled, it'll cover my wheel tracks. Plus, for debris clearing, it'll pull more. I'm not really worried about it pulling too much material - unlike the box blade, I'm mostly going to be pulling sticks and branches and other crap, not a full load of dirt that would bog me down.

I'm hoping I can not only clean up with it, but use to help level out our pastures as well. Sounds like you need it for the same reasons I do. Good luck!

oldballs · Mar 9, 2025

I too had (and have) the Pine Bark bettle issue over the years. I had already bought a "Pine Needle Rake". Of course it worked best on the pine needle round up. But I usually had to hand rake it to my satisfaction....before going to the burn pile. In your case , tshonte, I'd go with the 7 ft Landscape Rake with wheels for all round usage.

Cheers,.
Mike

Thomas · Mar 10, 2025

Years ago I remove 11 large pine trees and use landscape rake it did good job,I had to go slow often clean tines of small limbs pine cones,also add weight on top of the rake,I made wind row than use loader to clean up.

Fladogman · Mar 10, 2025

In my opinion you don't need wheel kit to make the rake work best. I hated mine at first the started changing stuff. I took out every other tine which helps it self clean better and not pull so much dirt, then I put a float link at the top which helps it's not to tear up the yard. There is a major improvement to how it works now. I use it a lot more.

houser52 · Mar 24, 2025

I use a landscape rakes for moving bush a lot. I have a 5’ and a 6’ rake and use the 5’ more. I can get into more tight places with the smaller rake.

I also remove every other tine so sticks and debris don’t get stuck between closer spaced tines. Trust me on this. Also, you can reverse the rake so you can push everything backwards. You can push 2-3 times the amount of debris backwards without stuff piling up underneath the tractor.

dinoedwards · Mar 31, 2025

I'm needing a rake as well and saw this.
Seen someone mount this to a box blade, box blades are cheaper and more available then rakes so maybe a way around expensive rake.
Of course mounting on bucket would work but