Rake Leveling soil with a landscape rake

[Trev]

<font color=blue>Without the fold down grader blade option, is a landscape rake with guide wheels useful for leveling soil that is tilled up, but has high spots and low spots, etc?</font color=blue>

I did much the same thing this Spring with a landscape rake. I had an area where a bulldozer had pushed some dirt from a hill down into my garden area, and another area where my neighbor and I had removed some dead trees. I had wheels on the landscape rake I rented, but I put them in the full-up position so they didn't have any effect. The result was beautiful. It leveled the ground, picked up loose stick and stones, and left such a nice finish on the ground that we get complements from neighbors ("Jeez, that sure looks better than it did before you bought the place!") I was really happy with the outcome. If your ground is really rough, then maybe a box blade would do you better. If it's just a little bumpy, a days rental of a landscape (York) rake might be just the ticket.

Good luck!
Bob

 

[Molerj]

Thanks Mosey. Alot of research is needed, adding rear remotes to my JD 955, for starters.

 

[Mosey]

Bob - I'm really surprised to hear that you didn't even use the wheels on the landscape rake. I sure hate to pay about $175 for them if they are of no use!

 

[Trev]

<font color=blue>Bob - I'm really surprised to hear that you didn't even use the wheels on the landscape rake. I sure hate to pay about $175 for them if they are of no use! </font color=blue>

I'm sure they have their uses.. but in my own situation they were simply in the way. I've heard of many people using them productively to clean out small rocks and whatnot. I didn't mean to imply they are generically useless.. just that I didn't need them for this job.

Bob

 

[Turfman]

If I see what you are saying here, it's that you didn't plumb the cylinder into the live hydraulics of the tractor, just filled it and ran a line from both ends of the cylinder with a valve to open to drain and fill each end as needed? Is that correct?