Rake Power rake and more

[gray]

Rowski,

Thanks. I read a few of the postings and see some saying they would chose a T6 over pro 8? Would you know why? I also read some of the rakes have one roller and others have 2? Will the one roller type do a good enough type job or is it a " I wish I had gotten the other one" kind of issue?

I am thinking of resurfacing gravel drives, preping lawns, redoing old lawns and the like with the rake.

Last fall was my first time using implements: 5'king kutter rotary cutter-66" box blade- Quick Tach forks.

 

[AndyMA]

As far as the difference between the T6 and the Pro 8, remember that you need to size the rear implement to fit the machine properly. Quite a few of the members of this board run smaller tractors and need to stick with 5 to 6' implements. If you have the machine capacity, then going with a wider implement will almost always cut down the job time and also result in a smoother end result. I run a older narrow Harley rake on my Ford 2120 and wish I had a Pro 8 but it was a price issue.

andy

 

[gray]

AndyMA.

I have a 70" track width so a t6 is the smallest I should look at? On an angle it may be too little? 37hp at the pto so that is ok as far as I have read.

Have you resurfaced gravel roads with yours and if so how well did it work?

 

[ScottAR]

I believe Rat had/has a Pro 8 on an L48 with beautiful results. Maybe he will chime in...

 

[gray]

Scoot,

In fact, an L48 is what I have. I am trying to get pricing on a few other power rakes.
I have not heard much on how well the power rake would work on gravel drives. Lots of them in big need. I would be using it to do some of them in addition to normal ground prep.

You are right, Rat should now more about this. Does he still have his L48? I thought he sold it and got a l3610 or the like?

 

[ScottAR]

Think he got a 3830, Still has the rake if I remember...
This link may help.

Found this one too.

 

[Tags]

Gray,
I don't want to seem like a self promoter but.....I am selling my rake and all the details are on the classifieds main page.

To answer some of your questions....The rake does an awesome job of regrading hard packed drives in a very short amount of time. A roto tiller will really tear up once grown over soil,i think the best way to shape it back up would be (if you have a tiller) run the tiller over it a few times at a very shallow depth, then hit the entire area with the power rake and you'll be ready for grass in no time. I never had a tiller, but did use the scarifiers on the rake to loosen stuff up, then just repeatedly ran the rake over the area to get the results I desired.
Also, as far as the post hole digger goes, a three point hitch one is by far the simpilest,the downfall to it though is that you can't apply down pressure to it via the three point hitch, it seems to me that one hooked up to the hoe would be real slick, cause you'd be able to apply down pressure and it would be very easy to place it exactly where you wanted your hole. Of course this brings up an entirely new set of issues, you would need to remove the hoe bucket, which is a pain without a quick coupler, the hoe would need additional hydraulics run out to the end of the stick, and you would have to make sure the 48 generates enough hydraulic flow to spin the hydraulic motor, which I'm pretty sure it does. So unless you have a small fortune to spend doing all that stuff, a three point hitch one may be the hot ticket, especially if you are only doing the digging for yourself.

 

[Rowski]

Gray

I have used my T8 to do some work on drives and parking areas along with grass seeding prep. The t8 works very very well with anything screened. I did try it on some boney bank run gravel. The t8 can handle it but the end result is that you get a lot of larger rocks left in front on the roller that needs to be cleaned up. I have use the rake on some silt and clay dug out of a silt catch. The clay was left to harden most of the summer. The stuff was so hard you could not even get a shovel into it. The Harley had no trouble at all. If you were to use it on drives as well as site prep I would got for the T series. The carbide roller does a better job of chewing up stuff. Also go with the 8ft.

 

[Rowski]

Here's the hard clay silt I was talking about.

 

[Rowski]

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