Rake So i was surely surprised with my landscape rake shopping today

[nickel plate]

A few months ago I bought a very slightly used York 8' RI landscape rake complete with "training" wheels. Several years ago the original owner used it once in his landscape buisness to roll up some existing grass/sod on one of his jobs. I am almost finished with building a dolly for it and will post photos of it resting on the dolly soon. Besides the York rake, I have dollied the Woods BH90-X backhoe, the Wallenstein BX42 chipper and the hydraulic wood splitter.

 

[keyser soze]

For some reason I had in my mind landscape rakes cost between 4-500 bucks for 6 footers. I head to my kubota dealer and see that Landprides are 600ish and Woods are 800. These were out of my budget so I head to Tractor supply. Their Countyline brand was 469 but I didn't like the construction. Seemed to light duty to me. So I head back to my dealer to "think" about my purchase some more. That's when I was actually told the prices.

They did have a 6 foot Leinbach for 450 bucks. Seemed better made than Tractor supply. I was told the Leinbach's are decently made but don't really have the spring back memory on the spikes as do the landpride and woods. So I inquired about buying landprides spikes/tynes to attach to my landpride blade. Still 600 bones. So long story short I bought the Leinabch. Worst case scenario I'll be replacing tynes here and there if needed.

the leinbach's are actually made cheaper, and I guarantee you that they don't have the same spring steel tines that the County Line Brand or the Woods or Land Pride.

You definitely bought the cheapest, and probably worst value, IMO.

I hope you get along good with it though.

 

[Happyman]

the leinbach's are actually made cheaper, and I guarantee you that they don't have the same spring steel tines that the County Line Brand or the Woods or Land Pride.

You definitely bought the cheapest, and probably worst value, IMO.

I hope you get along good with it though.

keyser....have you ever worked with a Leinbach rake? Like I posted before, I dragged 8 acres of cleared land and had 4 dump truck loads of roots and debris taken away. This was all accomplished with the Leinbach rake. A few bent tines, but easily pushed back into place. Nothing broke, all bolts remained tight, no problems what so ever. In MY opinion, you can't beat the VALUE and DEPENDABILITY of the Leinbach.
Sounds like you had a different experience.