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Old 19-10-2008, 06:59 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Scarifier vs Verticutter vs Dethatcher

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Lawn Guy said:

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Earlier this spring I was looking for an all-in-one machine that would
be used primarily in the spring, and it would do the following or have
the following capabilities:

- gas powered, 5 to 10 hp
- push or walk behind (not ride on)
- important feature is that it's a high suction vaccum cleaner
with large canister recepticle
- vacuum deck contains brushes, knives, blades, wires, or some
other spinning, whirling mechanism that can beat the ground
and dislodge loose debris for the vacuum to pick up (like a
beater bar on a vacuum cleaner). Minimal harm to grass.


If you're constantly beating the ground with "brushes, knives, blades,
wires, or some other spinning, whirling mechanism", how the hell do you
expect to do "minimal harm to grass"?


Uses:

- pick up gravel, sand, pea-sized stones or small broken bits of
asphalt on driveways, small parking lots, or the roadway in front
of your house in the spring that was left behind by winter road
dammage and sand/gravel put down by road maintanence vehicles
during the winter.


Doesn't your street department clean your street?


- clean the lawn in the spring of all the various loose organic
debris, leaf and twig fragments (etc) that even a lawn mower with
a bag and with the deck set low to the ground will not pick up.

- grind up (to an extent beyond what a lawn mower would do) and pick
up leaves in the fall.


Do you really expect a machine that you've used all year to grind gravel,
sand, stones, broken asphalt, etc, to still have the capabilities to mulch
leaves AND:

Cost: Between $500 and $750 USD.


LMAO. You're a ****ing idiot.


Is there such a machine?


Good god, no. Buy a ****ing rake.
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