Lawn / Leaf rakes with metal tines

[lakelover]

Anyone know where I can buy a "real" leaf rake, with steel tines and a 30" span?

I've been buying the poly 30" rakes from Home Depot or Lowes for the last several years, replacing them every 1-3 years, depending on when they inevitably break. They work great as long as they hold together. This morning, I learned that you can't use a rake with plastic tines when it's 36? out! :facepalm::laugh: At this point, I'm willing to pay for a good tool that will last, but I can't find any that big with the metal tines.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: Lawn / Leaf rakes with metal tines

Anyone know where I can buy a "real" leaf rake, with steel tines and a 30" span?

I've been buying the poly 30" rakes from Home Depot or Lowes for the last several years, replacing them every 1-3 years, depending on when they inevitably break. They work great as long as they hold together. This morning, I learned that you can't use a rake with plastic tines when it's 36? out! :facepalm::laugh: At this point, I'm willing to pay for a good tool that will last, but I can't find any that big with the metal tines.

Good to know. I have a couple of lawns to take care of yet. May have to use that excuse and push them off until spring.

The only "real" rakes I've seen have been small......

 

[lakelover]

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Yup, I have two steel tined ones that are who knows? maybe 10-20 years old, but they aren't as wide as I'd like.

 

[GA_Boater]

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Got a Menards near you? They carry a 30 incher. 30" Steel Rake at Menards

 

[greenbush future]

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Throw your rakes away, and buy a back-Pack leaf blower. I have 8-9 massive Oaks in my fenced back yard, used to take me 1/2 day of hard raking just to get them to the back area. With this thing, I do all my flower beds, and the entire lawn in about 20-30 minutes. I was wasting my time doing the old fashioned leaf raking stuff. I clean gutters, my drive way, and when it snows, I can usually blow it off the drive way as long as it's cold enough. It's really a worth while item if you have a big lawn and you want it cleaned up.

 

[lakelover]

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Got a Menards near you? They carry a 30 incher. 30" Steel Rake at Menards

Thanks, would love it, but the nearest store is over 500 miles from me! I've often wished we had them in my neck of the woods.

Throw your rakes away, and buy a back-Pack leaf blower. I have 8-9 massive Oaks in my fenced back yard, used to take me 1/2 day or more of hard raking just to get them to the back area. With this thing, I do all my flower beds, and the entire lawn in about 20-30 minutes. I was wasting my time doing the old fashioned leaf raking stuff. I clean gutters, my drive way, and when it snows, I can usually blow it off the drive way as long as it's cold enough. It's really a worth while item if you have a big lawn and you want it cleaned up.

This year I used my lawn mower to mulch/blow the leaves from 4 big maple trees down to the road where the town leaf-sucker truck could get them. Took me about 40 minutes, compared to, like you say, at least 1/2 day of raking and dragging on tarps. I can't say I could clean my gutters that way though! The rake would just be for clean-up & little jobs here & there.

 

[chriscraft254]

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Landscape/plant supply companies around you probably carry better stuff for the yard than your local hd or lowes. Backpack leafblowers are sweet though.

 

[fat fanny]

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Leaf blower is the only why to go why waste time

 

[rivermouse]

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I got a back pack blower and it does move the leaves but I have yet to find a way to use it to bag up my leaves for the curve side pick up. That requires a good rake . My town requires all leaves to be in clear plastic bags for pick up. Piling them up beside the curve is against the law and can bring a heavy fine.

 

[oldjeep]

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Just a note - if you use a leaf blower to clear your lawn, your neighbors are secretly plotting your demise. Seriously folks, get a rake or a bagger for your mower.

As for the metal tine leaf rake - menards or true value, although I've never had trouble with my big plastic rakes in 30 degree temps. My yard is full of big maples and oaks that don't drop their leave until it is ready to snow most years.

 

[lakelover]

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Landscape/plant supply companies around you probably carry better stuff for the yard than your local hd or lowes.

Good idea, I'll try that.

Just a note - if you use a leaf blower to clear your lawn, your neighbors are secretly plotting your demise. Seriously folks, get a rake or a bagger for your mower.

That's part of the reason I like to keep on top of it. My neighbor is a widow and her lawn is her hobby. They've been good neighbors over the years, so I try to not let my leaves give her a lot of extra work. However, I won't do it twice! I wait for everything to be down first. And I can't control the wind!

I got a back pack blower and it does move the leaves but I have yet to find a way to use it to bag up my leaves for the curve side pick up. That requires a good rake . My town requires all leaves to be in clear plastic bags for pick up. Piling them up beside the curve is against the law and can bring a heavy fine.

That's tougher, our town got a vacuum truck a couple years ago and it sure is a fantastic service.

 

[oldjeep]

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That's part of the reason I like to keep on top of it. My neighbor is a widow and her lawn is her hobby. They've been good neighbors over the years, so I try to not let my leaves give her a lot of extra work. However, I won't do it twice! I wait for everything to be down first. And I can't control the wind!

I'm talking about the high pitched noise. We've got neighbors behind us that run a damn leaf blower for 5 hours at a time rather than take an hour and actually rake the leaves.

 

[britisher]

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Our good friends Harbor Freight are selling a 17?" Stainless Steel all metal lawn rake for $17.99.

 

[lakelover]

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I'm talking about the high pitched noise. We've got neighbors behind us that run a damn leaf blower for 5 hours at a time rather than take an hour and actually rake the leaves.

Ahh, I get it now!

 

[greenbush future]

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I'm talking about the high pitched noise. We've got neighbors behind us that run a damn leaf blower for 5 hours at a time rather than take an hour and actually rake the leaves.

Makes good sense if you live in the city, need to respect the neighbors, but 20-30 minutes isn't to bad I don't think. I also don't have curbside pick up, I just blow em all to the back, where it's kind of wild (fenced yard).

 

[Volphin]

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I always just mulch them into the grass with the riding mower. That's just the less fertilizer I have to buy...

 

[smclear]

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Ace Hardware has them (if there is one in your area).

You can order on line and have shipped to your door.

Corona? 24in Spring Brace Rake (RK24061) - Rakes - Ace Hardware

You can also search on Amazon for "metal rakes" - There are many to choose from.

 

[lakelover]

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We have Ace. Nice rake, but I'm looking for at least a 30" spread - maybe I'm hoping for too much.

 

[jigngrub]

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I'm talking about the high pitched noise. We've got neighbors behind us that run a damn leaf blower for 5 hours at a time rather than take an hour and actually rake the leaves.

Unless you live in a neighborhood of slackards everyone is going to make yard work noise on a regular basis. Mowers, weedeaters, leaf blowers are always running where I live and you can't hold it against someone for keeping their yard looking nice.

I live in a sub-division with 1 acre (43,000 sf) lots and it takes everyone a while to mow, trim, and clean up yard debris and I've never had anyone complain about the noise I make no matter when I do it.

I would be mad if my neighbors didn't make yard work noise and just let their yards go overgrown and unkept.

 

[canoemang]

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I'm talking about the high pitched noise. We've got neighbors behind us that run a damn leaf blower for 5 hours at a time rather than take an hour and actually rake the leaves.

I think me running my Stihl backpack blower for a couple hours is nothing compared to the hours/days/weeks/months of summer when my neighbors kids yelling and screaming at all hours..

Ill stick with my blower..