Uses for a Landscape Rake

Landscape rakes are attachments for small lawn tractors that homeowners use on their lawns. They are also used on bigger tractors, such as a Bobcat, by professional landscapers. The pros use them to care for golf courses, beaches, resorts, cemeteries, parks and the grounds of businesses, schools, office parks, universities, museums and other institutions.

Function

Landscape-rake attachments are used on residential lawns for several tasks including grading and leveling the surface of the lawn; removing rocks, sticks and other debris from the soil before the lawn is sodded or seeded; and spreading topsoil. Professional applications include spreading sand, gravel, crushed stone and cinders, as well as spreading and leveling asphalt and tar. Landscape rakes can also be used to mulch leaves.

Features

Some rakes fit the front of a tractor; others are on the back. Some have adjustable wheels to control how deep the rake goes into the surface. Some rakes can break up earth that is packed and hard. Rakes are made in different widths to fit different sized tractors.

Effects

Landscape rakes can be used to create terraced lawns as well as drainage ditches and other topographical features that could improve the functionality of a property. Landscape rakes can be adjusted to approach the earth from different angles for other special effects or to reach nonflat surfaces.

Size

Landscape rakes come in various sizes to fit everything from the smallest lawn tractor to larger front-end loaders and earth movers.

Leisure uses

Landscape rakes can even be used to keep baseball diamonds -- and other sports fields -- in top form.