2manyrocks
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Must be talking about a giant chubby pencil from kindergarten. Still waiting to see someone pick up a standard No. 2 pencil with a grapple.
Excellent. Do you have float wheels on this, so you can just drop it and let it follow a lumpy lawn, or do you float it with adjusting your 3-point height? Also, are you using a hydraulic angle, or just manually setting it?Over some 40+ years of attempting to learn how to farm, I scoffed at 6', 3 pt mounted rakes that can be multi positioned and 360 degree rotated to pull or push debris, as I felt they were essentially useless (dumbass thought). This neighbor that cleaned up his Locust trees had tree parts everywhere as he had a tree stripper come out .....skid steer mounted device that just ripped the branches off the tree and made a big mess.
I thought about it and decided I'd try such implement so I bought one. Ha! Now one of my favorite implements. I use it for many things, including fall leaf raking and find that it's better at doing jobs (like putting rock back on and leveling driveways with loose rock, which were done with my blade or box scraper in the past. Give it some thought.
I use a chain in place of the top link. Allows me to raise when needed, but when I let it down, it follows (floats) the terrain.Excellent. Do you have float wheels on this, so you can just drop it and let it follow a lumpy lawn, or do you float it with adjusting your 3-point height? Also, are you using a hydraulic angle, or just manually setting it?
Looks like an excellent way to de-thatch a lawn, if it doesn't dig in too much.Rowse makes rakes for haying that are essentially a modern version of the dump rake.
Sounds like the easiest way to go for fields bordering woods, but this is a finished lawn space around the house, so this is not an area for flail mower.Maybe I'm lazy but if the branches weren't too thick that would be a mulching job for my flail mower during a mowing pass. Any big chunks that were left after being pummeled with the flail hammers I'd pick up
On my front and back lawn I do not like the little wood chunks to walk on barefoot - and I enjoy my barefoot time in the summer as I go in and out of the lake.Maybe I'm lazy but if the branches weren't too thick that would be a mulching job for my flail mower during a mowing pass. Any big chunks that were left after being pummeled with the flail hammers I'd pick up