Post land clearing rake

[Nickelpickel]

I have just had 4 acres of my heavily wooded forest cleared by mechanical land clearers. I now have everything from mulch to hunks of wood the size of an arm or leg(below knee), I have been using box scraper but i’m hoping to find a rake that minimally affects the earth below, These land clearing processes are becoming more and more common so hopefully the post process clean up tools will be more effective and available.

 

[duffer]

A HD root rake would do the trick, but not sure your Kubota can handle a HD one with the HP you have.

Ask your excavator if he knows anyone with a machine to clear the debris. I had a guy who had a potato picker, with a rotor tiller mounted on the front of it, and it cleared the bigger stuff 4" deep in the soil, and left a pretty nice seed bed out the back end. All I had to do was drag the high spots off.

Another option would be a York rake with narrow tong spacing. But it will drag some top soil with it.

I hired 2 HS kids to walk on the sides of my tractor and hand pick anything over 1" diameter and throw it in the bucket. Moved at a walking pace, cleared about 12' swath at a time. Took 3-4 hours for 5 acres. Cost was next to nothing.

 

[drumminj]

We had about 4 acres forestry mulched when we first bought our place. I ended up using a landscape rake to pile up the debris then a root grapple with closely spaced tines (9") to pick it up and move ito to a pile. There's got to be better tools out there but it worked pretty well for me.

 

[EddieWalker]

I built a 6 foot wide rake for cleaning up my land after removing a bunch of trees. There where small branches everywhere, and I was hoping for something better than picking them up.

I found the rake to be great for the first ten or twenty feet. Then it was full of debris and everything fell out of the sides. I made a giant row of stuff that I scooped up with my bucket, but it really wasn't very productive or worthwhile.

Eventually I bought a grapple for my tractor and used it to clean up everything. The rake was a waste of money. I cut it up and used the metal for other projects.