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Old 03-12-2011, 02:19 PM
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Default My home made landscape rake

There were a couple threads about this so I thought I would post mine. Here is it on my 86:



I just took some old hay rake tines which had a hook on one end and welded them to a piece of angle iron. As you can see the welds aren't great, but as I recall the spring steel wanted to melt through pretty quickly when the temp was set right for the angle iron. I'll call them good though as they are all still attached.






I use it in the gravel (but I need to weave a piece of flat bar through the tines to keep them from springing) and in the yard prior to over seeding. I thought the tines would eventually break off but I've been using it hard for 6 or 7 years now and so far none have.

The only thing I did wrong was to weld it too fast and it has a decent bend in it down the length of the bar. That's evening out over time though as the middle tines wear down (slowly).

I originally built it as a pull behind and just put the sleeve hitch adapter on it this morning. I may at some point put in a provision for angling it as well.



It's very heavy duty and can take a lot of weight. Sometimes I stand on it (190 pounds) while my son drives. It really digs in then.

These tines are not hard to find and make a great rake.
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Old 03-12-2011, 03:30 PM
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Default Looks good

I like the simple design and I would like to build one like it. It looks like it would be tough enough to work up stone dust at our local ball park and level at the same time. I will try It if I can find tines like yours at a reasonable price.Thanks for sharing and inspirering
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Nice looking 86!!
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That's cool. I would like to build stuff like that.
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Awesome idea, and work! I agree(Nice 86) ! kinda looks like a 6 cylinder under hood of a v-8. She has power, as it can drag that rake through with weight on it! Can you picture a briggs engine melting down to billet doing that? I can....
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I like that, very nice!
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Yeah, the 86 has power, I'll grant you that, but this rake is nothing for it. The real test is the plow and first indications are it will do fine. I pulled this rake around with my Yazoo 3 wheel rider many times. Backing up was fun, the rake would dig in and the rear of the Yazoo would ride up nearly tossing me off the front.

I bent the tongue real bad once, but the tines are all still there! That's another reason why the sleeve hitch is the way to go with it. I tried it this afternoon and found that even without weight it was digging in the yard pretty good.
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I like the simple design and I would like to build one like it. It looks like it would be tough enough to work up stone dust at our local ball park and level at the same time. I will try It if I can find tines like yours at a reasonable price.Thanks for sharing and inspirering
I grew up on a farm so I just go down there and look through the junk pile and find this stuff. Most previous generation farmers don't throw anything away so I'm sure these spring tines can't be too hard to find. I found 3 big cultivator blades, but they are too big I think for my purposes (about 30" high).
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Good looking 86
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Wow very nice 86 and rake! Thanks for sharing them with us!
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