Landscape Rake Advice Please

[Code54]

Keep an eye on the welds. I had a county line and one day the "rake" separated from the 3 pt hitch..... Ended up buying the EA and love it.

 

[AGTtactical]

Man, I love this website. You guys are great. I thinned out some trees on my property, and clear cut the house site. Stumped it all, then used a forestry mulcher to clean up the woods. A landscape rake would really smooth out the ground, and help me remove some of the smaller limbs and wood debris left over. My road is #34 rock, and I need to drag some of the rock back into the road that as piled up on the edges from the road compacting from repeated drives up and down...I might be able to use a rake to do that since I have no fines (not using C&R).

I know I need a rake, and I MAY need a scraper blade. The Everything Attachments (ETA) Deluxe Scrape Blade can be had with a rake attachment...or you can buy the rake with the blade attachment. What do you guys think? The rake is $2517, and getting a blade with it is an extra $1400.

Oh, BTW, my tractor is an L6060 (62 hp and 4000 pounds). The ETA scraper blade is 820 pounds (rake is 685#) ...do you think that is too heavy for a my tractor? I think it would be fine, and the weight may actually help, but there are guys here with much more experience than me.

And by the way, the similar grading blade by Landpride, the RBT3596, weighs 745# (75# less than the ETA) and costs more (about $3000). And there's no rake option for it...you have to buy a whole other rake.

Maybe I should start another thread, but there were a lot of guys with ETA rakes here, so...

 

[MtnViewRanch]

In my opinion, no other company makes a landscape rake better than ETA. :thumbsup:

I personally would not go with a combo unit though. :no:

 

[AGTtactical]

In my opinion, no other company makes a landscape rake better than ETA.

Mtn View, you mean this one? http://https://www.everythingattachments.com/Heavy-Duty-Landscape-Rake-With-Hydraulic-Options-p/96-hd-ls-lsr.htm. I know you've said a RBT3596 is about perfect for an L6060...It weighs 745 pounds. With a blade instead of rake, the EA model would be 75 pounds more at 820 pounds. Do you think that's ok with an L6060? (rake is only 685 pounds).

I personally would not go with a combo unit though. :no:

I value your opinion greatly... can you elaborate? The EA rake and blade are interchangeable on the same frame/housing. So, instead of removing the whole attachment, you just switch from a rake to a blade...the bolt nut is on top, and its only function is to hold the blade/rake in the housing...all forces are held in place by a concentric mount, not a king pin, as I understand it. The bolt is 3/4" in diameter, with a 1 & 1/8" nut. Rick at EA said that with a top and tilt kit, getting a rake or blade aligned with the housing shouldn't be that bad. In a perfect world, 5-8 minutes. And I would only break out the blade about once a year as I may be able to get everything done with the rake. The main goal is to pull my #34 rock back into the road and get rid of the berm that has accumulated outside the tire tracks in some places, and to drag debris out of the soil.

BTW, Rick Rinehardt responded to my email almost immediately. He's the owner of EA, and was very helpful. One of those guys who treats you like he has all the time in the world for you.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Mtn View, you mean this one? http://https://www.everythingattachments.com/Heavy-Duty-Landscape-Rake-With-Hydraulic-Options-p/96-hd-ls-lsr.htm. I know you've said a RBT3596 is about perfect for an L6060...It weighs 745 pounds. With a blade instead of rake, the EA model would be 75 pounds more at 820 pounds. Do you think that's ok with an L6060? (rake is only 685 pounds).

I value your opinion greatly... can you elaborate? The EA rake and blade are interchangeable on the same frame/housing. So, instead of removing the whole attachment, you just switch from a rake to a blade...the bolt nut is on top, and its only function is to hold the blade/rake in the housing...all forces are held in place by a concentric mount, not a king pin, as I understand it. The bolt is 3/4" in diameter, with a 1 & 1/8" nut. Rick at EA said that with a top and tilt kit, getting a rake or blade aligned with the housing shouldn't be that bad. In a perfect world, 5-8 minutes. And I would only break out the blade about once a year as I may be able to get everything done with the rake. The main goal is to pull my #34 rock back into the road and get rid of the berm that has accumulated outside the tire tracks in some places, and to drag debris out of the soil.

BTW, Rick Rinehardt responded to my email almost immediately. He's the owner of EA, and was very helpful. One of those guys who treats you like he has all the time in the world for you.

The additional weight would only serve you better IMO. :thumbsup:

As far as switching things back and forth, I suppose if you built stands to hold both the rake and the blade and did not have the blade tilt cylinder it may not be all that bad. Not that it matters that much for your tractor, but how much offset does the ETA unit have vs the Land Pride unit? The amount of offset capabilities is something that a lot of people forget to consider.

I'm sure that ETA has the switch over figured out pretty well, but I still would go with 2 complete separate implements.

Again, that may very well only be me.

 

[AGTtactical]

Here's some landscape rake video ****: Land Shark Hydraulic Landscape Rake Demo - YouTube

This is the one you can buy a grading blade to go with it (extra $1100).

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Here's some landscape rake ****:96" Land Shark Deluxe Scrape Blade With Hydraulic Options

This is the one you can buy a grading blade with (extra $1100).

If you are talking to me, :confused3: I know exactly what unit it is.

 

[AGTtactical]

No, was not talking to you specifically...I know you know. I just though some guys would enjoy this video...that's why I called it "rake ****." It's pretty cool. Seems to have plenty of offset from what I can tell.