How To Use a Landscape Rake Part 1

[Music] and and and hi i'm ted from everything attachments and we're here with peanut everybody knows peanut we're here at peanuts families piece of property his father's darryl you might know rick if you've called into the office that's his other brother we've been tight families for a long time this is on about a fifty acre field here that's near the creek I'm in Catawba County it's August 8 2013 two weeks ago Saturday we had thirteen inches of rain in just a few hours the peanut and I both seen this field covered a little bit with water but they had record even granny that lives also here on the home site which is air with us anymore she knows where the water used to come up to and told us many times and the water came up what an extra fifty feet that are more than so this is a bridge that's been here since I was a kid this is highway 10 this whole bridge was cut offered this is the first day it was opened yesterday all of this rock that wasn't here in peanut and I used to be able to drive vehicles between the the end of the bridge and the bridge and the whole end got blown out and all the trees were getting ready to show you have come out from in here and on up through here Nate pann on around here and get to see the destruction that we had here you may have seen it on the national news it was my friends called me from all over and saw it on the on the national news that Catawba County and some counties around us had experienced this type of flooding and even a few people were killed that we're camping that were way away from some of our rivers but simply this is more than anyone has ever seen here that's still living and even before that that we know of darrel lost a lot of his pasture over here this used to be solid all the way out to here where my vehicles parked out there next to Darrell's tractor is peanuts golf green which is basically gone and covered up with Sam peanuts a scratch golfer that's self-taught and we're gonna take our extreme duty landscape and rake and we're going to have all kinds of different conditions here because we're able to kind of show what it does in sand that would normally be here and that's river sand this washed out of the creek here we've got rocks roots a little bit of everything it looks to me like we're going to get on some roots that are still connected on both that were feet under the ground that have been uncovered so they're still connected so we're just going to see how much abuse we're gonna hook some of this heavy stuff we're gonna see how much abuse that this rate can take and the quality of times we got you may see a SWAT a little bit there's a lot of bugs out here that aren't normally here with all this sand and moisture that's been going on out here but we're gonna try to make a day of it out here and see if we can show you all the different things that these landscaping rakes are capable of doing with and without the gauge wheels okay so we're here with peanuts father's tractor this is a tractor that in 1983 I was 18 years old my father and I traded his family for a piece of land that's over where my white house is that you may have seen some of the other videos and this is a typical example of a tractor that can be as low as 28 horsepower on the PTO 32 engine horsepower this was a great tractor when it was built for the size the how well you're able to look off the back of this tractor for landscaping and using a product like this I wish tractors would have stayed a little more simpler especially on the operators platform like this but this was one of the last ones of the dry break tractor zone for Ford after the two thousand and thirty six hundred then they moved to a wet break axle and really made it wide and heavier and it wasn't really is balanced especially with this lower horsepower but this is a good example when we when we build our attachments to be extreme duty and we say they're for a compact tractor compact tractors are going up well into the 60 horsepower range now and and really horsepower is one factor in depending on what you're using but this tractor with only 32 horsepower is still a 5,000 pound tractor so regardless of how much horsepower it has it has the push power of a 5,000 pound tractor you simply use a lower gear so that's why I try to differentiate the difference in our attachments if it's for compact tractor not really worried about the horsepower more worried about the weight just like a John Deere 110 it's kind of considered a compact but it breaks every rule it's a super heavy beast of a little tractor so when you when you're sizing your implements right size it more for the weight and the size of your machine then you for the horsepower and we can help you that with that and everything attachments we always pretty much know every model attractor a kind of what they weigh and can make our best recommendation because regardless of how much horsepower it has for instance the Kubota M X 51 tons of horsepower not much weight spins the tires really good not a bad tractor but it's just a compact lightweight tractor this tractor is half the horsepower and will weigh out pull and M x51 even if it's two wheel drive with good tires in the right condition so that's that's something that has to be always kept in mind with attachments when you're sizing it right and if you're not experienced with it everything attachments has the experience and we're here to help you so we're going to go over some of the features of this landscape rate and we're going to probably bend sometimes before it's over because we're definitely going to do some things that you shouldn't do we've put the hook on here to make it easier for us to get loaded and so forth and for you later so we don't have to damage the paint on it all the times on this or Italian times are not Chinese they're not Indian it's the highest quality of time I can get because what you want is a time that doesn't have to have the girdle behind here making it rigid because then it's going to operate more like a straight blade you want your tongs to work fully spring-loaded so to write to this point right here that's flat and then it has a three degree Bend letting it have some up room and some down room to let these fingers work because they don't work they're simply just going to drag dirt like a straight blade now we've got a mix here of what kind of looks like sand but there's a lot of red clay mixed in with it so it may pull up more than we think don't really know what's under this there's more than a foot of sand here that's never been here in the pasture there can be anything from sticks rocks whatever in this but it's not going to work quite like saying and it's not going to work quite like dirt I can tell that already we do have gauge wheels here with us and we will put the gauge wheels on then we're probably this is our brand new assign our version three we're probably going to move this top link up to this slotted lot which is going to let it work more like a greater off of the rear pins here and the wheels so the top link is not affected as the tractor moves it's going to keep from dipping and digging in on this model here we've added the category 1 and category 2 step in we're slowly converting all of our attachments to that it is quick attach acceptable and will come with the pen here ready for the slide when you get it now this particular tractor does have hydraulic top link inside link on it Darrell now really close and and I hooked him up with this 15 years ago and once you get used to that I try not to use that on my tractor videos because most people don't have it once you have this you get really spoiled with it so it's kind of a it's a great thing if you do have it if you don't all these adjustments are still available to you you just have to do it manually so we do have the 8 positions in the rear 8 positions in the front to rotate this around so it will completely rotate around while it's on the tractor this is an 8 foot rake we just rotated it without any problem it's set for where his top link is it sticks about that far below the lift arms and we did hit there but that wouldn't normally be there so we're going to put peanut on the tractor which Darryl is his father is one of the most experienced machinery operators I know he worked at our county field here for about 30 or 50 years fully retired and he's really he's an expert with box blades and root rake scrapes and that's where peanut learn from and that's pretty much where I learned from we've both played on this stuff all our lives so we're going to give it a shot see what we've got underneath here because we don't have a clue this field has never been like this there are full-size oak trees 5200 years old that are 500 feet away from where they were originally and we're just going to just give it a run and see what we've got we're in the blind just like you would be if you'd had a natural disaster around you so right now we're just going to kind of slip through the sand and see what comes up once we find out what's going to come up will angle it probably and see if we can make a row of trash and if we don't find what we want here we'll go somewhere else but see it's letting the sand come through it's piling up pretty high but it's still sifting through it and that's she won't it's gonna pull the trash out of it so now that he's just trying to take the trash down to that hole where we can reverse it later and push it back into the creek bed there where it's missing he's down to where he doesn't have anything but pure grass and a few little sticks there so it's sifted through better than we thought it would because we're just still not sure he's going to go straight down he's just going to stay on the sand and see kind of what we end up with here and he's still after it's you can see some of the graphs which is a foot long still coming back up through here they're still connected but as a good rate does it's not building up like a straight blade it's letting it filter through there and that's what that's what you want and that's all about having those times free and loose and letting them use their spring action the one thing you don't want to do with the landscape rake and that rake is protecting because it does have a brace under the tines but you don't want to back up while you've got the tines down you can always turn the tines around with the whole rake but don't back up with them in their forwards position so if you had a beach this would really leave a nice finish on it because it's got enough sand in it to kind of tell that I've sold a lot of these to pull the seaweed out and so forth around Beach areas and in the keys so we're not really running into the big rocks or any roots right now but we're going to so we're just going to go after this a couple more times see if we can get down a little lower peanut wants to see if we can get to the grass actually just for his father's because his father after we're done with this this will be his father's new rake we're gonna give it to him and he's going to stay out here probably work for the next couple of days trying to clean this mess up so every every layer is kind of a different color here going from red to more of a sand to whatever and we'll come back here in a day after his father's worked all day and just take you a picture and let you see what it ended up what he was able to do with this but the good thing that we're finding out is with the loose times it's not letting it build up like a straight blade and that's good then really to get this sand if you in peanuts trying to get down to the grass right now because he'd like to see where the pasture is but a straight blade or a box blade would really be probably the first thing to start with to actually move the material and then go over it with a rake to get get the fine stuff out of the grass now with it this wet I'm not sure but it should comb through the grass without really pulling up the grass and anything that's pulling up is probably just deposited here from up the river so then once you get like your piles of debris he'll go over that sift back through it and make it easier and quicker [Music] they got down to a few rocks there and they will pull those out of the way all right and really he's depending on what you're doing he's probably at full speed of what you should be doing that or if you can always slow down or speed up to just how much it's filtering through and what it's doing and you can also change the toplink angle a little bit if you want for bite or less by okay so now we're out in the middle of this field where it used to be nothing but grass and you can see the different ridges here it looks just like ocean waves or the waters washed through here and we're gonna do a little at the the landscape and rate should help level up a little bit in here and then with time what Daryl will do peanuts father's just keep on raking this until he gets down to the grass where it can come back through the pasture now what do you end up doing with these all these tons of sand at the end I don't know because it's going to be a lot of it so it's going to level it out and fill in the gap similar to what a box played or scrape blade would do even though that's not exactly what it's meant for but because we're in sand it's going to do a good job of that but it's going over those ridges that are almost two foot high and between them and it's smoothing out really well I would say you almost need gauge wheels to do that well but it's doing really good in this sand normally a landscaping rake would be used to clean up after you have landscaped a lot or how the dozer clean it off and you've just got a lot of roots and limbs things like that but we're kind of getting a dual-purpose out of this cuz a lot of people have beaches in Sandy area they want to clean up also he still got some heels in that and that's where the landscaping wheels on there would really help to keep it level more like a motor grader but it has levelled out everything that was wash boarded as it is right here with a big hole it's now leveled out across here really nice I believe Darrell can keep riding over this till he gets some of this natural grass coming up through here where he can gain his pasture back and then there's a half an acre gone next to the creek that I guess we'll just be gone forever so in one of the bigger differences - between a farm tractor and this will be a small farm tractor versus the compact it's going to have a much larger cubic inch engine a lot more torque a lot more weight and just built differently than a compact lightweight tractor and there's a little bit of asphalt in here there's a little bit of granite rock a little bit of everything [Music] and he's kind of riding a ridge but after a couple of passes he would get that it's a little more difficult to get it smooth with a eight-foot rake when you're having to ride a Ridge like that but he's got enough pasture here that he's going to have to have that 8 footer so in the first pass he's getting the sand off of it and getting some of the debris and with another pass he's going to get all this rock out of it ok so I can see a lot of the rock sticking in the back of the tines there and it's just a process of making a few passes to get all of this like you would want it so he'll filter that out to a place and then once he makes a good row of trash then he'll Reese pred that out to further separate the trash and be able to clean this mess up okay so at everything attachments we sell a whole lot of different things and one of them is a root rate meant to get roots and stuff out of the ground after excavation and stuff to give you an idea of the root system of a tree which you'd normally never be able to sing cleanly like this you know you've got a note you've got a lot of trees here if nothing really huge you can still see the root structure which is still going up under this bank for more than 30 feet it's a 30 feet away from a small tree you've still got four to six inch roots that are running under here definitely when they're attached on both ends like this probably this tractor won't even pull them out with a chain so there's no point in trying that with the landscape right you can see these big hunks of concrete that are all here all of this was washed out into the pasture and I didn't know this till now but Daryl had already come out here with a box blade and push some of this junk back into here this whole field was completely covered with debris but just giving you an idea of the root structure of these trees and what you're up against when you're trying to get these things out I mean there are just so many roots that coming out of these trees that you know some people they just don't have enough tractor to handle this just like we don't today and we're not going to take these roots out because they need to stay here most likely if these aren't covered up pretty quick all these trees are going to die so I don't know exactly what they'll do with that but there's debris and roots and everything everywhere in here that I've never seen before peanut and I played on this River a lot and we've even had vehicles down in it driving it but this is a bad disaster that happened in Catawba County if the storm didn't wash these out I'm not even sure we can pull them out if nothing else this may be a good test for the times we would normally be pushing this back in but we're just going to try to take it out for something to do and then we'll push it back in later with the rake turn around back now he's over a two-inch root but it was stood this storm it's going to do something between break a Tyne and pull it out I don't know so far we haven't broken anything I see a few of them flexing a lot but every now and then if you break a time you know you shouldn't have an experience with with bad times and I've had that with another company and but you're it's still common to bend or break a time every now and then and really they should bend instead of breaking because if they break they were too hard and that's what a lot of the Chinese and Indian times were they so the thing to do is work with patience work slow especially when you've got a 5,000 pound tractor you know patience goes a long way and you just have to redo less later so he's tilting his top link down they're simply just to get it lower and get a different angle on it he's got a full head of stuff there and it's just breaking off the limbs and roots it hasn't messed anything up yeah this is probably your most aggravating type of stuff to get called in the times and stuff like that there's nothing you can really do about it it's set cleared off every now and then or back up a little bit with them slightly on the ground [Applause] but if you were in the opposite direction we're going to push this back in but if you were truly trying to clean this off that's about as much as you're going to get done with it with a tool like this it's going to get do a good job so going over a bank like that bull roots it's probably the last thing that most manufacturers want you doing with a root rake but it seems to be holding up well as you can tell he's spinning a little bit with that tractor but it's you know it's a it's a larger tractor the tires are half worn but he's still getting a good pool at it and with that extreme Duty rake which is rated up to seventy-five horsepower you know it's going to take about anything the tractor will put out a lot of seventy-five horsepower tractors now are no heavier than that one only being 32 so he's just got a water crap there and if you wanted to filter that out he would simply drag it along in a row and let some more that sand filter out end up with a nice pile of roots to the side because there's only about an inch of spacing between this times if you know what you're doing for certain things you can remove every other time if you need it to filter through larger stuff or not get caught up in small stuff just depend on what you're doing and how large your job is

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Keywords: landscape rake, root rake, rock rake, york rake, kubota, john deere, mahindra, farming, landscaping, lawn care

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Length: 23min 27sec (1407 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 09 2013