Scored on a landscape rake

[captinjack]

Finally picked up a Land Pride LR 3584 rake in PA and had to transport it all the 300 miles to my property in WV.

It rained so hard and the ground was as muddy as I've ever seen it so unloading and welding on the 2" receiver mounts for the gauge wheels was delayed.

It finally stopped raining and I easily unloaded it from the trailer with the bucket. My original intention was to simply get it hooked up and park the tractor, but said what the heck, I'll give the road coming in some time to see if all the falls accumulation of leaves and much could be scraped off. It worked half decently as the leaves were really wet. I'll do it again when things dry out in the near future.

Not content yet, I attacked the other roads and it did an incredible job of removing all the leaves and sticks. I'm impressed with how well it works. I hit roots and stones with no deflection of the tines. I don't even think I will have to use gauge wheels as it was easy to stay level and not dig in too deeply. The best feature of this rake is that it can be shifted to the side allowing raking at least 2 feet past my tires which is real handy in cleaning out the ditches. I easily raked the mud completely out of a low spot on the road that is almost always wet. This spot will ultimately need the ditch fixed and a culvert installed but that will have to wait til later.

The rake is very heavy duty and the price reflected that. With 6% tax it came out to $1351 for the 7 ft. model. Pricing at other dealers was much more expensive as they didn't have any in stock, I had to pay $250 shipping, and the list price was over $1500 so I'm happy with the deal I got. It weighs about 500 pounds so add on weight will not be needed.

I had a ball running this rake and couldn't stop saying WOW! This rake is worth every penny I spent for it and look forward to doing things that that the scraper blade just couldn't do well such as smoothing the stone. The scraper blade always wanted to dig in.

I know this is boring info to the posters here, but I just had to report. Yes.........I know I should have taken pictures and even had my camera on me, but the batteries were dead. Will get pictures shortly and will post about mid next week when I return from SD.

[GuglioLS]

Captinjack,
Not boring at all,in fact pretty exciting to read all about your new rake. It must be beefy for what you paid. I was looking at a 7 foot Leinbach for 550. Yours must be super nice being over a grand. I have decided to make a home made one. Wish me luck. Oh and for sure get some pictures posted so I can get (steal) some ideas.

Larry

[bradblazer]

Nice rake! I've used my neighbor's land pride scrape blade with the same offset/angle/tilt configuration and it is heavy and a pleasure to use.

[3RRL]

Hi Jack,
Man that rake as you describe it's weight and size must be very heavy duty indeed. You know we just got one for Loretta's Jinma and I've used it. They are pretty cool for sure. Hers not nearly as heavy duty as yours is though. Plus, on most rakes I've seen photos where there is a tine in each slot. Hers has one every other slot. It's still OK for sticks and pulling out thick dead grass though.

One feature that sounds really good about yours is the ability to swing it off center like you were saying. Hers only pivots around the rake's center but does not swing off to one side. That sounds like a mod required to make hers more effective.
Thanks for sharing all that info and too bad you didn't take any photos for us to drool over.
Rob-

[ccapers]

As many of you know, I'm new to tractors and therefore, the implements they use. I bought a landscape rake and tried it out today in hopes of gathering sticks, rocks, dead cut grass & weeds. No matter what I tried, it didn't gather anything. It didn't come with instructions so I'm stumped as to what I'm doing wrong in the setup. Should it be set at a certain angle (verticle or otherwise)? It rotates on it's own axis but that's all. Today was the first day I changed the adjustments on the 3PH as well. Very frustrating. Any advice would be appreciated.

Cliff

[GuglioLS]

Cliff,

What I can help with is attaching TPH implements. Like anything you learn, at first it seems awkward, but before you know it your a pro. I do not use any sort of quick attach on my TPH lift arms. The trick (IMHO) is to get good at backing up to your implements -
each lift arm square and parallel to within an inch or less of perfect to the pins, then use a long solid steel digger bar as a lever to nudge the implement into position. Doing it that way saves your back and maybe prevents a smashed finger or two. When you get good you should be able to swap out anything within a few minutes. At first it may be frustrating, but if you take your time to enjoy hooking things up, it will make it go much smoother.

You know the old saying "Practice makes perfect".

Have fun with it.


Larry

[quikduk]

Here is what Jack bought.

www.landpride.com/products/prod_lr/prod_lr35.html

I like this one too so maybe down the road, another project...but not now thankyouverymuch.

[ccapers]

May 21, 2008 9:49:03 GMT -5 quikduk said:

Here is what Jack bought.

www.landpride.com/products/prod_lr/prod_lr35.html

I like this one too so maybe down the road, another project...but not now thankyouverymuch.

That was very informative. Using the top centener link to adjust the pitch is probably what I need to know. Adjusting with the teeth (bottom of rake) closer to the tractor will make the rake more agressive. Adjusting them further away is less agressive. Sounds logical. Without instructions I was just trying to make it all as 'flat' as possible and that was not working. Thanks for the link.

Cliff

[ccapers]

Larry - Thank you for the 3PT hook-up tips. I now have a bar to help me lift and adjust the implement while hooking it up.

Cliff