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Petrops
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2004-03-24          80925


I am looking for an 84" rake for my L35 (5'6" wheel width)for use in a part time landscaping business. I would like to spend as little as possible while getting a rake that will last for a long time under moderate use. I have my eyes on a Landpride LR1584 whick is available for $850 including wheels. It is the lightest duty of the Landpride rakes but is still considerably heavier than the lightest duty Woods. Does anyone have any experience with this or other models or have any words of wisdom for choosing a rake?

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Chief
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2004-03-24          80933


I have the LR1584 Landscaping Rake and I love mine. It is MUCH more heavily built than the King Kutter and other brands in my opinion. I use mine to maintain my gravel drive way. They are substantially more costly than most others but depending on how much use you put them to may be justified. I got mine at a substantial discount and I doubt I would pay the usual asking price. They come with more options goodies such as the grading wheels that some others don't have. I am sure you will be very happy with it but if you have very occasional light use in mind you just may be better off with the King Kutter. Shop and compare is about all you can do. Good luck! ....


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Murf
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2004-03-24          80936


As Chief mentioned the Land Pride is a solid unit.

Rakes are something, like other 'ground-engaging' implements, which just works better if it's a little on the heavy side.

They are well built units, we use them constantly and other than the odd tine bent from an imovable object they have certainly stood up to everything my guys can do to them.

Best of luck. ....


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loghouse95
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2004-03-24          80941


agree with chief and Murf I also own a landpride rake and I have used it for eight years and it has stood up well..Very well built ....


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hardwood
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2004-03-24          80962


I just used my 1584 this morning to level crushed rock in a driveway. This is the only thing I've used it for so far as I just got it a couple weeks ago. It really worked nice. Mine doesn't have the wheel kit, but by going slow and keeping one hand on the 3pt. lever you can do a nice job. The gravel truck had spread it as he dumped, then I set the angle of the rake to sort of swath the rock to the center of the drive then set the angle back to straight and just leveled down the swath. There might be a more proper method but this is my first experience with a rake, so if I'm doing it wrong somebody with more experienc let me know. Frank. ....


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Abbeywoods
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2004-03-24          80983


You could do a lot worse than Landpride, they make excellent products. I have a York, which was for years the industry standard - I swear by it, not at it. If you are a legal business, licensed and all that good stuff, you should be well aware that the purchase price of the best rake can be written off, either in your first year of use or over several years. You'll get depreciation value too. The IRS just revised its rules for equipment purchases for businesses, actually in our favor for a change. So, being a business has financial advantages over the average buyer. Check with your accountant, it probably will be extra money up front, but you'll get almost half of it back either in the form of refund or lower taxes. ....


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2004-03-24          80997


Petrops, I agree with the previous posters that Landpride is good quality and makes a nice rake. Shop around for a better price, Last fall I bought my LP 3584 w/out wheels for $916. out the door. With the 35 series you have the ability to offset the rake and have nine diff. angle postions.

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Petrops
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2004-03-24          81003


Thanks David and all.

It seems like the word is that Landpride makes a good product. David that seems like a good price for a very heavy duty rake and only a bit more than the light duty with wheels. In your opinion is there value to wheels (I have no idea what the value is) and what is the liability of getting the lighter duty version, is it really a bit frail?

Thanks again to everyone ....


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loghouse95
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2004-03-24          81013


I can see no value to having wheels if you have hydraulic 3ph, but I have never had one with wheels, I would recommend buying the heavy duty. I just use the position control to determine how low or high I want to rake Good Luck ....


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dsg
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2004-03-25          81069


Petrops, the value of wheels comes into play when you are working with fine materials like inch. minus gravel or sand and loam. It allows you a very uniform depth of your material, especially on uneven ground.

David ....


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JParker
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2004-03-30          81615


From this thread and a few others, it appears that a good, heavy landscape rake can do much the same thing as a rear blade, but leaves a better finish for gravel, sand... Am I on the right track?

I was thinking about getting one for clearing sticks and branches out of pasture grass and small rocks (6-10"), out of what will eventually become a yard. Presently just weeds, vines and a little grass. Basically anything to prevent errosion for now.

I don't really want to tear up the pasture a lot, just clean up the branches... before shreading the smaller ones with the bush hog.

I don't really want to tear up the future yard too much either because it started having some errosion problems after it was first cleared. Eventually we will regrade and replant, but the more rocks I remove now the less to deal with later. When the septic went in, they found a lot of rocks that are now half burried all over the place.

Is this the correct impliment or should I be thinking about something else for spring cleanup? ....


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arnoldbanner
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2004-04-18          83485


I'd appreciate any views on the value of adding the flip-down scraper blade to the landpride rake. Does it really come close to being a box scraper, or is it not worth the $300+ I've been quoted? ....


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hardwood
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2004-04-18          83489


ArnoldB; I've used my 1584 quite a bit since my first post on this thread. Unless the soil is loosened up by another inpliment first the 1584 just doesn't weigh enough to penetrate undisturbed soil with or without the blade atachment. I've been using mine to move soil around that was torn up by a chisel plow to fill in some low spots. I don't have the blade attachment, but it will grab enough soil in the first few feet of travel to make the 4410 snort a bit and pull it to where you want it. I have an LP box scraper that will loosen up the soil and pull it to where you want it in one operation. So which is best? The box scraper is heavy enough that even with the teeth fully withdrawn it would tear up grass more than you want, but would probably jerk the half burried rocks out, but on the other side of the coin it can't be angled to swath soil or crushed rock and I doubt that the box scraper would work very good to gather trash, etc. it just wasn't designed for that purpose. I really did'nt answer your question directly, but just tried to point out some of the things I've learned since I've got both machines. Enjoy your weekend, Frank. ....


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harvey
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2004-04-18          83490


I use mine (I think it is a 1572 with out looking) the land scape rake is really for doing finish work, removing larger stones etc. The rocks you have to hand pick. I would compare its use with a hard garden rake not a leaf rake.

I do use mine for raking up brush and probably lots of other stuff. I hate getting off to clean the debrie out of the teeth.

The problem with using it for driveways is its tendancy to want to seperate the stone from the fines. You end up with all the course rock on top and the fines on the bottom.

The really best way to use it is with guadge wheels. Alought I've used mine more than 12 years with out them and have did ok.

I would not consider a flip down scraper blade for it. I would buy a scraper blade as first choice. The scraper blade is more versitle. The york is more specialized. ....


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