Feed Your Addiction: Tacomaholics "Anonymous" Support Group

Since @lynyrd3 took all the bad weather today I took advantage and did some painting outside.

 

Still hasn’t rained . Friggen weather idiots . Probably tonight and tomorrow

 

How do you dethatch?

 

Tow this around and it pulls all the crap laying horizontal in the lawn . It also scratches the surface to let water ,air,and fertilizer get in . There is some raking and use of a leaf blower to get rid of thatch once it’s pulled up .

 

I got a lawn sweeper to pick up the crap. I hate raking. Works on light leaves, too.

 

My neighbor has a sweeper I can borrow . It saves some raking but doesn’t get down deep into the lawn like a de thatcher

 

Oh yea

 

Oh no. Dethatcher first, then sweeper. I actually have the one you posted.

 

Oh ,got ya .​

 

I have too much to pick up to use a sweeper . I’m better off using the blower and picking it up in the lawn cart or raking it up on a tarp . But yea I hate raking too .

 

Cool, my damn property is too hilly to tow shit around. Not because these aren't effective on hills, but because I am constantly backing up.

I think I am going to try these:

https://www.truevalue.com/detaching...vB8xFh_meQz5_di1KWBoCSQ4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I remember something exactly like this from a long time ago on a commercial and it seems to make a lot more sense for me. I have a 3 blade deck and old blades I can make these work on.

 

You can also rent a walk behind dethatcher . I’ve done that in the past .

 

So you haven't seen these springs before?

 

I have but not sure what you do with them . Do they attach to a mower blade or are they for a specific machine

 

Yea, almost all mower blades have holes in them out on the ends. These attach to the bottom of the balde, and the spring keeps them from being tore off on roots, rocks, etc. As the blades spin the metal end does all the dethatching. The height of the deck dictates how deep they go. I imagine if you has one of these on the end of each of 3 blades spinning at 2500 rpm you could seriously create one hell of a dust cloud. Since there's a natural discharge, you could by rights connect a bagger to it.

I think I might give it a try this year.

 

Love how it turned out.

 

Looks so damn good! I want that steering wheel so bad

 

Thanks! .. and

 

Looking good