Rake - $30 and 3 Hours

[keeney]

All those bolts and holes reminds me of the jig I made to paint a few hundred hollow square steel railing ballusters.

I took a couple of the 10' uni-struts that are used for holding electrical conduit to walls and things. They come already drilled with holes every 2 inches. I filled all the holes with 1/2" bolts sticking through and then clamped them to saw-horses and loaded them up with 60 ballusters each per batch.

A 10' piece was about $15 at Home Depot and would be perfect to make a rake like shown - just cut it to the desired width and bolt the tines on.

- Rick

 

[Egon]

Slamfire:

Like you I made one with double tined springs but used two pieces of angle iron spaced about a foot apart. It was attached to the tool bar on the three point. Mine is used to rake after broadcast seeding and go over existing grass in the spring to make an attemp at dethatching.

My tines are also not strong enough to rake up small stones.

Egon

 

[Egon]

This is The Harrow I would really like to have but the cost was prohibitive.

Egon

 

[RonR]

Egon, mine is certainly not as pretty, but I'd guess I have less than $200 in this one, and I doubt you could tell the difference between your expensive tool and my cheap tool when it's worked the ground.

Enjoy,
Ron

 

[Egon]

Ron:

I don't have this expensive tool. I too built a much cheaper version at home.

Egon

 

[htiek126]

I attached a close up of the tine attachment details, this is the front of the rake.

 

[Egon]

Keith:

Thats the same way I attached mine. I also ran a rod trough the center of the springs so they could not turn.

Egon

 

[MadReferee]

Here is how I attached a double tine for a dethatcher that I just built for another TBNer. Notice the 2 sheet metal hex drive screws. These were placed there to eliminate any twisting by the tines.

 

[Egon]

Mad:

Seems like many have utilized tines for rakes/harrows. I ran a wooden rod through the tine spring loops to keep them from moving and/or loseing them.

Egon