Flip Down Grader Blade (for LR1560) Land Pride Rake

[JD2210MAN]

Has anyone purchased a Flip Down Grader Blade for their Land Pride Landscape Rake: LR1560, LR1572, LR1584, LR1596? [Part #302-105A 6' GRADER BLADE ASY]
I am wondering three things:
1-Price (of just the Flip Down Grader Blade add-on)?
2-Ruggedness of the add-on Flip Down Grader Blade?
3-Any pictures?

I have the LRT1560 Rake now and wonder if I could use the Flip Down Grader Blade for scraping the snow/ice off our private gravel road? We have a RBT1584 but my wife wants me to down size some implements before I can get a front blower. :confused2: Now the RBT1584 is my primary snow removal tool but if I get a blower the LR1560 would just be used to scrape the left over ice snow.

When leaving the RBT1584 free to tilt (pin removed), to contour to the road, it does an amazing job of clearing cleanly. If fixed it gouges the gravel and pushes stones all over the neighborhood lawns. Left free it is great and has done me well for many years. Just need to speed up 6 hours of plowing per storm by getting a blower. :thumbsup:

Bottom line is... or should I say "back to the questions":
1-Price (of just the Flip Down Grader Blade add-on)?
2-Ruggedness of the add-on Flip Down Grader Blade?
3-Any pictures?

I found these on Land Pride with lots of searching:

 

[Topkicker]

I have a Land Pride 1584 blade that I use for snow removal. I do my concrete drive and a neighbors gravel drive. I added these shoes for the gravel. It works great. I set the shoes where the blade is about 1in from the gravel surface and it cuts a nice path without diging in the drive. When set all the way up, the blade makes full contact for my concrete drive. I ordered the shoes from my local Land Pride dealer. No drilling required and comes with all the hadware to install.

 

[Piston]

I have one of those Land Pride rakes with the flip down scraper blade, I actually didn't even know they existed until I bought the tractor (it came with it).

I used it quite a bit over the last month or so since we've been getting dumped on with snow, I usually use the FEL but use the blade to back up to my garage and sometimes use both at the same time with a lot of snow.

I don't know what the price would be. It does work well and better than I thought, however one thing that happens makes me want to get a dedicated scraper blade.
In the pics you posted you can't tell, but with my landscape rakes the tines aren't all so perfect. Many of them are bent back/forward from use in rocky soil, since the ones that are bent forward hold the blade out away from the rest of the tines, it gets 'springy' when pulling snow, in other words the snow piles up in front of it and with the blade pulling the snow, it bounces forward and back on the forword bent tines. Not sure if that makes any sense.
I did bend some of the tines back using heat and that helped a lot.

It's nice to be able to just flip it up/down though and not have to go get another attachment when you want either the rake or blade. I wish there was a pin to keep it fixed in the down position but I don't see one anywhere? I may try to rig one up somehow. WHen the snow gets icy I will flip up the bar and go over it with just the rake, putting some grooves into the icy snow, which helps A LOT with traction for my wifes front wheel drive car, before putting the grooves in the driveway she would spin the tires in one small hilly spot. I'll look to see if I have any pics of it.

 

[Piston]

I found a few pics. You can see how when it's folded up its out of the way, and in one of the pics you can see what I mean with the bent tines. the one that is bent forward holds the blade out and causes some 'bounce' back and forth, however I honestly haven't found it bad enough to justify buying a dedicated blade, its just an excuse for another attachment :laughing:

Hope these pics help.

 

[copperhead1967]

Wow, this is why I love this forum. For the last few years I have been thinking I needed to add some sort of blade to my rake. I too use the loader and rake for snow removal. I have the TSC 5 footer on my BX22 and use it mostly to scratch up some gravel after pushing everything out of the way with the loader. I'll start searching around for a add on blade and share the results here. I'm also thinking it would be nice to have some sort of add on blade on the FEL. Something that goes on easily or swings up out of the way. It would have to be adjustable to angle the snow to either side.

 

[copperhead1967]

Piston,
I have a 2 strips of steel on my rake sandwiched across the tines. Helps keep the tines in order and you can adjust stiffness of the tines by moving it up or down. Kind of time consuming as there are about 30 bolts but it does work.
Mine came with this, looking at google pix most it appears do not. I attached the picture from TSC site. Mines the orange subcompact model but you get the idea. A couple pieces of steel and some half inch bolts may fix your wayward tines.

 

[edawg]

Thread back from the dead... but I'm about to build a package tractor deal and am curious about the flip-down blade option for Land Pride landscape rake... Seemed a short lived product with some manufacturers, but Land Pride's 2020 catalog still lists it and it's in stock in at least one dealer's website...

Anyone have experience specifically with the Landpride rake for light duty driveway gravel leveling/edging? A box blade or land plane w/scarifiers won't work as well on my place due to the small #89 pea gravel on top of crusher run driveway surfaces both in front and back of our house... And I'd like to be able to edge the driveways' gravel to grass lines a bit... And rake debris off spring gardens plus loosen up a horse riding ring that's granite dust. Hoping this would work for these items if I don't push either blade or rake too hard with a ~26hp machine (LX2610)?