Anyone have experience with the Estate Rake?

[samckitt]

Thinking, if this works good, would be great for leaves/twigs/dethatching. Anyone have any experience with it?

[J-Mech]

I have experience with one about 10 times as big.

It won't dethatch.
It won't work well for sticks.
Might get twigs, but it is made for raking grass. Might rake leaves. It's a grass rake.

[dirtcowboy]

I have one and i like it a lot. It dethatches great and windrows leaves and grass clippings. You'll want to put some weight in the weight boxes on the rake or it will pull sideways when it gets a heavy load in front of it. This is mine.

[Rescue11]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

I have experience with one about 10 times as big.

It won't dethatch.
It won't work well for sticks.
Might get twigs, but it is made for raking grass. Might rake leaves. It's a grass rake.

X2 they work suprisingly well on corn stalks too!

[DoubleO7]

Originally Posted by dirtcowboy

I have one and i like it a lot. It dethatches great and windrows leaves and grass clippings. You'll want to put some weight in the weight boxes on the rake or it will pull sideways when it gets a heavy load in front of it. This is mine.

I too am on the prowl for an estate rake.

Thank you for telling us how it really does, instead of making a guesstimate of what it can or might do.

[Jumper]

There's a couple good videos of one working on YouTube, the one I have seems to pick and roll pretty well also. A cub loader and stone rake really work well to pick up rows in a large yard, allot less hand work.

[J-Mech]

Originally Posted by DoubleO7

Thank you for telling us how it really does, instead of making a guesstimate of what it can or might do.

What's that supposed to mean? Is someone here making guestimates?

Go watch videos of them in action. A dethatcher works better for dethatching. Amazing, as the name of each applies. One tool is a dethatcher, one is a rake. Even a lawn sweeper will dethatch some..... but not like a tool made just for dethatching.

[Digger]

They do a great job if you add weight to them!

[twoton]

Looks good there Digger.

[ken6x6]

Every year around fall time I revisit the idea of buying one of these, they do seem like they would work great. I'm just running out of room for attachments.