Yard Rake...anyone use this?

[boomer1025]

After getting my tiller up and running, thanks to those who responded to my post about it (see link), I'm now dealing with another issue. My yard has about 3-4 inches of soft soil on top (it's awesome). However, there are a lot of small wood pieces from when I had a guy take out a couple dozen cedar trees with a skid steer. He ground them up but the pieces were larger than I thought they'd be so I had them removed. There are quite a few still remaining. So a diving catch in a football game could leave someone impaled on a 3-4 inch spike. I want to drag the yard to pick up as much of the wood pieces as possible. I was looking at this yard rake on Amazon. It should be good to drag through the soft soil and collect the wood chips/sticks. I saw another post on yard rakes from early 2025 and someone said they bought one from Amazon but hadn't used it. He never reported back after he put it together.

Anyone have experience with a rake like this? Again, it'll be dragged through the top few inches of soft soil to gather the wood hidden under the surface.


Tiller question:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/tiller-pto-shaft-cutting.646974/

Go to Amazon and do a search for

GarveeLife 60 in Pine Straw Needle Rake, 3 Point Landscape Rake​

I got one a year or 2 ago and it works great.

 

[NoCowboyhat]

So I haven't done anything since i made this post because the weather hasn't been real cooperative when I had time to get out there.

This is the yard. It's about 1 1/2 acres. The trees in the back are cedar. As mentioned, the issue I have is 3-4 inch pieces of wood from when I had my cedar trees ground up with a skid steer. The vast majority of the chips were removed. After tilling the yard, there are some left. I started doing this manually with a wheelbarrow and a rake. After many hours, this is not a solution. I have a box blade but the teeth are too far apart to catch the pieces. I'm planning on leveling the yard with it once I get the wood pieces out.

Whatever I end up with will be attached to my BX2680 3-point. I'm going to till the yard again since the rain has made the soil a little hard for anything with softer teeth/tines.

 

[ruffdog]

So I haven't done anything since i made this post because the weather hasn't been real cooperative when I had time to get out there.

This is the yard. It's about 1 1/2 acres. The trees in the back are cedar. As mentioned, the issue I have is 3-4 inch pieces of wood from when I had my cedar trees ground up with a skid steer. The vast majority of the chips were removed. After tilling the yard, there are some left. I started doing this manually with a wheelbarrow and a rake. After many hours, this is not a solution. I have a box blade but the teeth are too far apart to catch the pieces. I'm planning on leveling the yard with it once I get the wood pieces out.

Whatever I end up with will be attached to my BX2680 3-point. I'm going to till the yard again since the rain has made the soil a little hard for anything with softer teeth/tines.

Do you have a neighbor with a drag harrow you can borrow? I would use one with the spikes down first to collect debris, then flip it to smooth it off.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/loyal-12-ft-x-8-ft-drag-harrow