I Tested 3 Lawn Leveling Rakes (One of Them was Hilariously Bad)

if you look in this cardboard right here you could see where the paint came off of the handle and it's stuck to the cardboard [Music] hey what's up guys and today we have a highly anticipated and i must say a highly requested review of the top three leveling rakes on the market right now first up we got the ryan noor rake that he just came out with i'm excited to try that out then we got the r r products rake which is tried and true been my daily driver for the last few years now and then we have the new kid on the block which is the raisin rico which comes all the way from germany so we're going to take a look at the build quality of each one then we're going to test them out in the field and we're going to see which one of these rakes hails this king so one of the most important factors when buying new equipment and i feel like a lot of people tend to overlook this is where the product is made so first off we're going to take a look at this rnr products rig i actually called r r products and asked them exactly where their rake was made because on their website didn't explicitly say and they said that their head is manufactured in america and that the handle was imported but they wouldn't exactly tell me from where so i'm gonna assume it's probably imported from china all right next up we have the rhinorake over here and i took a look on the lanzi website which is the manufacturer who makes this rake and it doesn't say anywhere on the website where the rake is made i emailed them twice already and i still haven't heard back from them to see where it's actually made from but judging from the paint job and the build quality because it just kind of feels like creaky then i'm going to assume that this is made in china as well and last up we have the raisin rico which comes all the way from germany like literally they mailed it to me from germany and i might be a little biased with german engineering because my first car that i ever owned when i was 16 years old was a 1999 s320 mercedes and that car was like literally bulletproof and just like the mercedes i could tell that this rake has that fine german engineering to it so over here in chicago it's not quite leveling season just yet it's like 90 degrees outside grass is not really growing but what's a comparison video without actually doing a comparison in the field so we're gonna do some spot leveling today if a little bit dies off i have a little bit of a seating project coming up and we'll be all right by the way this is my daughter sophia i love her so much [Music] so over here we have three different materials on the ground we're going to test out all the rakes and a few of the things that we're going to be on the lookout for is how easy they are to spread the material around and generally how good they feel to handle so the first rake that we have up here is the r r products rake i've been using this rake for a long time and right off the bat one of the things that i like is it has a really wide head it's 36 inches so that really comes in handy when you're trying to get like a smooth complete flat surface on larger properties so right now we're going to test it to see how well it pushes material so as you can see it's doing a really good job almost one pass all the materials went down into the canopy so one of the things i really like about the r r rake is if you look at the head of the rake you could see that there's no open slots over here where dirt and material can get trapped so when you go back and forth on the lawn you know that all that material is getting down into the canopy another thing that i really like about this rake is the extra long handle but something that's really nice about this long handle is you could kind of stand back and take wide open swaths with the rake so next up we have the rye noor rick so one of the things i can tell off the bat from this one is that just doesn't feel as robust as the r r products rake let's see how this pushes around material [Music] so as you can see it did a pretty decent job putting into the canopy so i'm going to go back and forth here try to massage it down [Music] like i was saying about the build of the r and r over here it's almost like uh it has like these angle iron type slots so you can see that material gets caught up in there so one thing i noticed about the rhino rake is over here in the middle of the handle it has a potential failure point i don't know if they did this to save on shipping or what but over here you have to connect it and spin it on and there's no type of locking mechanism to hold it in place so when you push the rake back and forth there's the potential that it'll come down on loose so if any of you guys do end up picking up this rake i would probably lock tight it just to have that extra security so you don't have to worry about it in the middle of your project all right so next up we have the raisin rico this one is 32 inches wide so let's see how it pushes the material [Music] so like the ryan or rake and a lot of other leveling rakes it has the pitting over here in the head where the material gets caught up and i can't say that i'm a big fan of that i really like how r r products made it solid so none of the debris could get cut off so something i find interesting about this rake specifically is if you take a look at the head it's 32 inches wide but it's a lot deeper than all the other leveling rakes that i've used it has a more square shape rather than rectangle although it is still a rectangle it's a lot more fatter and deeper than all the other ones and i think that there's something to that because when i move it around it just seems a lot more buttery in the way that it moves and if i was doing a major leveling project i would probably bet that it would equal out a lot more smoother results because of that extra deepness it has so now we're going to take a look at how much the rakes weigh it's important that we have a little bit of heft on the head of the rake if you take a look at any homemade leveling drags online or on youtube you'll see a lot of people add cinder blocks to them and that's because we want to have a firm push against the ground which will ultimately lead to a much flatter surface when leveling it up the head of the rye nor rake weighs just over four pounds alright so next up we got the raisin rico and the head weighs just over eight pounds and last up we have the r r products rake and that weighs just over seven pounds so after weighing all the rakes the r r products rake and the raisin rachel are both substantially heavier than the ryan norrick so on the rhino website it says that his rake was powder coated but when i went to go open the box i was in for a surprise when i lift up the handle if you look in this cardboard right here you could see where the paint came off of the handle and it's stuck to the cardboard like it was a fresh paint job and when you feel this rake here you could just feel all the orange peel in the paint like they just freshly painted it with spray paint or something i know ryan nor was using the standard golf level lawn before he started selling this rake and that was an awesome rig tried and true a lot of people had a lot of good success with it but this new rake that he has is just bad actually scratch that it's completely unacceptable that they're actually shipping this out to customers given the price point so when it comes to build quality of the r rake i think they did a really good job the head looks like it's made out of this like galvanized steel type of of metal and it really holds up there hasn't been any rusting or pitting with it and it's still performing and looks like the day i bought it and i've already had it for about three years now so the most premium feeling out of all the rakes is definitely the raisin rico which doesn't surprise me because of that german engineering the rake head is actually made from v2a stainless steel and i didn't really know what that was so i had to do some research and i found out that it's one of the hardest stainless steels on the market actually it's so hard and tough that they need a special big machine just to cut through it and another benefit of it being a high quality stainless steels you don't ever have to worry about it rusting so by now you probably realize my least favorite rake was this ryan noir norwick but that doesn't mean it can't potentially help one of you guys so in the spirit of giving just like in my last leveling rake video that i did on the cheapest leveling rake on amazon we're gonna give this bad boy away all you have to do is drop a comment below tell me a little bit about your future leveling project that you have coming up this season or next season now we're going to give it away on monday september 6 which is labor day on instagram live we're going to do a random comment generator to pick one of the comments and if you're the winner i'll respond back to your comment i'll send you my email and i'll get this bad boy shipped out to you oh and psa i bought this leveling rake with my own money this giveaway is not sponsored by anybody i'm giving it away on my own accord good luck [Music]

Channel: Princess Cut Lawn Care

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Length: 9min 34sec (574 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 20 2021