Rock rake..

[hunt4570]

Some may call it a landscape rake but to me its a rock rake.

Anyway, we just moved cross country and sold my tractor and implements before we moved cause they wanted too much to move them. So when I got here I got a new and improved tractor ,L3540, but when I bought my rake.. my most used implement by the way, I bought me a cheapo at Agrisupply. Nothing against Agrisupply mind you, it was my decision to go cheap.
Well after a couple months of fighting the stupid thing I sold it and bought a TSC rake.. was going to get another 6 footer but splurged and went with 7'. Hope its not too wide, but now I can angle it and still get out past my tires!!
I Don't know what the deal was with the cheaper one but it just never seemed to work as well, weight, more likely geometry, but what ever, it never did function quite properly.
Used the new one for the first time today and it worked just as I remember a rake working...

WHOOHOO!!!

El Cheapo...




And the new TSC one.. 7 footer, oh yeah!!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Those things work really, really well, for a variety of tasks and that, in my mind is what makes them so great. But I would (personally) not call them a rock rake. They are a spring tooth rake.

 

[hunt4570]

Those things work really, really well, for a variety of tasks and that, in my mind is what makes them so great. But I would (personally) not call them a rock rake. They are a spring tooth rake.

They do work very well for a variety of tasks, which one of their best tasks is raking up large rocks out of fields... hence rock rake.. Which is what I call them.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Now let us see some pic's of rocks you are raking!

 

[Industrial Toys]

You would destroy one of those on our rocks. I guess rock size is based on geography and somewhat subjective.

 

[hunt4570]

Now let us see some pic's of rocks you are raking!

Well I'm in South Carolina now and not much in the way of rocks here, mostly sand.. you would have thought we moved to the beach or something!

I got my start raking rocks when we lived in Texas and Oklahoma, depending where you live in Texas you know what I'm talking about.

Now its mostly used for dressing the driveway and raking up sticks and pine needles.

 

[hunt4570]

You would destroy one of those on our rocks. I guess rock size is based on geography and somewhat subjective.

Yes that is correct, see,size DOES matter!!:laughing: The rocks I started using on were baseball to small cantaloupe sized.

 

[hunt4570]

So this thread has gotten a little off course, it wasn't intended to be about what I call this device, but more about the difference in the quality of the different implements.
While the first rake I bought here looked just like a rake, the function wasn't so good. Yes it worked and did its intended job, just not real well.Again I think some sort of geometry was working there..seems like there wasn't a lot of movement back at the tine tips. I couldn't pick it off the ground more than a couple inches, but if I rolled over a hump in the ground it would pic the rake off the ground.. weird!! A lot more range of motion with the new one...

 

[mark02tj]

So this thread has gotten a little off course, ...

That happens on TBN????? I NEVER knew that!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Congrats on your new toy...er, tool!! :thumbsup:

 

[Gary Fowler]

So this thread has gotten a little off course, it wasn't intended to be about what I call this device, but more about the difference in the quality of the different implements.
While the first rake I bought here looked just like a rake, the function wasn't so good. Yes it worked and did its intended job, just not real well.Again I think some sort of geometry was working there..seems like there wasn't a lot of movement back at the tine tips. I couldn't pick it off the ground more than a couple inches, but if I rolled over a hump in the ground it would pic the rake off the ground.. weird!! A lot more range of motion with the new one...

I cant see how the rakes would differ in the ability to raise or lower. If it wouldn't raise, then you needed to adjust the top link shorter, assuming that your lift arms were raising full up. Not lowering, could have been the draft control OR where you stopped the position control lever.

Note: One rake might have a longer tail shaft than the other one so it may go higher, but still height of lift is largely determined by the top link length. Also the top link length will determine how the tines hit the ground, just like a straight blade, longer top link will make it dig in whereas a shorter one will make is skim the ground (blade like this/ (long top link)digs whereas blade like this\ (shortened top link) slides. It works the same with the rake teeth. With the top link adjusted out long, the blade wont come off the ground as much though.

 

[hunt4570]

I agree with everything you say here.. but the lifting/lowering is way different.. thats a fact, which is why I said weird. Does not make sense to me either, but alas thats how it was. Also the reason I decided to sell that first one at a loss, and go quite a bit more expensive on the second one!
My only thought after looking at the pics I posted here, has the hitch on that first rake leaning forward..not sure, but something made it not work properly!!
Hooked up the new rake and it works just fine, and WAY different than that first one, and thats all I know about it.... makes no sense, but thats how it is!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I'm sure the angle of attack of the tines makes a difference. I built a rake for my Steiner using these spring tines but mounted each to a bushing and they pivot on a good sized rod. Each tine floats on it's own, or can be arrested to function normally. I wanted it to remove tree debris after felling a tree on a lawn, without ripping up the lawn.