Yard Tuff Pine Straw Rake Lawn Sweeper w/ 24 Spring Tines Pin Hitch ATV/UTV/Utility Tractr

Bought this pine straw rake after Helena. Arrived undamaged ship to store, it took me a little while to put together after I check all the parts. I found out that it was missing the (1) 1/2 inch flat washer, (2) 1/2 inch half inch bolts and (13) 3/8 inch hex lock nuts, that I needed to put the pine rake together. I called customer service and told them what my pine rake was missing and the guy that I talked to said that he couldn't send me the missing parts because they didn't have what I needed. He did say that I could buy the missing parts that was missing and that they would refund me for the parts. I had to drive 36 miles to get the missing parts. I didn't get it put together until dark, so I couldn't use it till the next day. The pine straw rake has really saved my back from raking sticks, leaves and pine needles after the storms. Just hooked it up behind my riding mower and started working. It worked better than some of the other reviews that other people had left. Now to call customer service to see about getting the promised money back. I hope so.

We recently had a large part of our property cleared of invasive bushes. Now there are sticks everywhere, which was my reason for buying this. My mister put it together and said the instructions were not specific enough. It's pretty solid and well-made. When I used it, I found it worked pretty good, but I had to make many passes over the same areas. I was losing a lot as I went—much like trying to brush my Pyrenees with a full brush…it just stops grabbing, though the rake would only be full on the end, about 1/8th up the length of the tines. I was getting a lot of thin stuff with some sticks mixed in. I may need a bit more weight on it, we'll see. But I was able to cut most of the grass/new bushes sprouting up without too much wood going through the mower blades. I still had to dismount the tractor to clear the tines most of the time, as the sticks would get lodged pretty good in them. But still much better than doing this project by hand or with the DIY version I have. Overall, it works much better than picking up the sticks by hand—which would probably take weeks—but it's still a bit of work with the repeated passes.