CHEAP RAKE VS EXPENSIVE RAKE. Which is better?
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2022
- One of our most popular attachments we sell each year is the CMP Detathatcher. It's great for a lot of things besides detatching, like light gravel drive maintenance, pine needle clean up, and leaf clean up. But the landscape rake is much heavier duty. So does that mean it's better at all of those tasks? We'll find out when we put them head to head today.
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A dethatcher would be a good attachment to have for clearing leaves or light gravel work but as a senior citizen on a budget the landscape rake is invaluable. Next in line would be a box blade, and then a tiller. I maintain a quarter mile gravel lane coming back to our home and the landscape rake and box blade are worth their weight in gold. I also have a tiller which is near and dear to my heart. There isn't any job around here that I can't accomplish with these 3 attachments. I also have a set of bolt on pallet forks that I use once in a while which are great for what I do with them. I would probably invest in a set of quick attach forks if I needed them more. I thank you for your great and informative videos. I watch the new ones every day. Your channel and TTWT are the ones that made me realize that I needed a tractor of my own in the first place. God bless and I'll be looking forward to your next video.
When I'm not chorin, i watch videos of other people chorin. Cheers.
I know this is an older post but going to share for anyone that may have a rock problem. I just purchased a County Line 5' lawn rake. Didn't have time to wait for a shipped tool. I needed to remove vegatation roots and debris that I excavated form the site, and rocks form baseball to bowling ball size. A few fellas said it wouldn't work and the rake would just roll over the rocks. They were about 95% wrong. I had trenched a gas and water line through the area and the site turned out to be a rock garden I guess. The rake worked awesome and if I pulled slow it collected most of the rocks big and small. A few rolled under the rake but most were picked. Pulled them and the debris downslope to form a row and then scooped with the FEL. So I found the rake does do a good job on rocks if you take your time and I added to 50lb sandbags on the implement to hold down pressure.
On a landscape rack I’ve learned that your top link adjustment affects how aggressive it digs. If the top link is retracted it’s much more gentle and more aggressive when extended. The exact opposite of a box blade adjustment. I used my rake to clean up after a tree had been cut on my lawn it worked very well with little to no damage after I retracted the top link. As you said soil conditions do play a factor as well.
That was a definitive WOW for me. I expected that landscape rake to do way better at the leaf collection than it did. I have always thought they would be better for leveling off gravel but I expected that to do better on leaves too. I guess the de-thatcher is a go. Another day, another lesson. Once again, very helpful info, Thank You!
Have had the 5 foot Dirt Dog Landscape Rake with the wheel kit for a couple of years now and agree 100% that it's awesome! Very easy to adapt to whatever "heavy" or "light" raking job you have with the optional wheels helping avoid "digging in" on some of those lawn or light gravel grading jobs. Better than either rear blade or box blade by a mile for the regular lawn and drive maintenance. Just have to be careful backing up to avoid hitting the wheel axle/post if they are down... But easy enough to just raise the wheels up or take 'em off temporarily if you need to dig down and dirty.
Always love the comparisons you do. It helps decide which or both are needed.
I have the cmp dethatcher and love it for gravel driveway fall leaves and covering seed beds.
the dethatcher works excellent on gravel drives to finish (like a harrow) after a grading. I get three season use out of mine.
I use a 72 inch landscape rake to pull weeds out of the water and groom the beach. I did a little better after adding the wheel kit. Mirrors helped a lot by helping me see how deep I was getting. In sand I spin out as soon as the rake starts to dig then I have holes to deal with.
Thanks for the comparison of these two attachments.
I got a Cyclone Rake just this year, which is like a powered tow behind bagger with suction from the mower deck, and I would never want to do leaves on the lawn any other way again. Single pass and every leaf is gone, I mean every leaf. Also got the optional hand held vac hose and it works great on flower beds and leaf piles and inside the pool fence. The thing is phenomenal. Too late for me, but maybe you could consider doing a discount with them or just collaborate? Just an idea. They seem to be a great American made company. I think they are family owned too.
Dethatcher and rake remind me of a land plane and boxblade, they can be used for the same jobs, but they have their own specific advantage.
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The dethatcher looks like just the ticket for me. Thanks for the video!
So I've been thinking about my dethatcher for awhile. I was really excited to buy it but the build quality for 600 bucks is a bit weak. The tines are held together by washers that you're supposed to bend which is fine if it worked well but the tines always get loose. I don't know how well it works with clean up compared to a rake which is a bit more aggressive on lawns so your mileage may vary. However it's also probably not the best dethatcher. You're obviously doing this on larger lawns but if that's the case you probably don't have a golf course lawn and you're probably better off getting a power rake or tiller with dethatch tines. I don't know, I think it's a bit weak for a steep price of 600
Thank you for this, sir! Exactly what I needed. I'll be ordering as soon as the finance committee clears it.
I have the de-thatcher and hang 2 weight blocks from the arms of the 3-point arms to keep some more down pressure on the de-thatcher.
Awesome video.