On Oct 19, 1:21*pm, Lawn Guy wrote:
Eggs Zachtly wrote:
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"?

Well, since there are things called "scarifiers" and "verticutters" and
aerators that apparently do beat or cut or slice into the ground, with
the goal of working the top layer without chewing up the grass too
badly, then I'd say that it shouldn't be too hard to dislodge and remove
loose shit on the ground and between the grass blades without chewing up
the grass too much.

Doesn't your street department clean your street?

Yea - halfway through the summer. *

And they don't clean my 5000 sq.ft. commercial office parking lot.

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

Sure, with an appropriate quick-change of internal components.

AND:
Cost: *Between $500 and $750 USD.

Anything's possible if it's made in China.

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

You're a ****ing ass wipe.

Youb have totally different pieces of equipment all confused as one
item under different names.

A scarifier is used to score or scarify hard pan soils and break it
up. Dooes not really work all that well for aeration as it destroys
too much surface area and pulls up roots etc.
An aerator is simply a device thatpoles elongated holes slots or a
round rod or tapered blade into the soil to allow water and air
infusion. It does not remove dead grasses nor does it break up the
soil it merely pierces the ground foro water and air infusion.
A dethatcher is just that, usually a stiff spring that scrubs along
the ground betweenthe tufts of grass that pulls up and deposits dead
and cut and built up grass and other debri onthe surface where its
raked and gathered up and hauled off to compost pile or trash. I may
scratch the soil surface a small amount but not enough to do any
damage to roots or disturb the soil as it is mainly intended and
designed to loosen up and bring tot he top the packed in grass
clippings etc.
Never heard of a verticutter.

FOr an already established lawn or redoing an establisehd lawmn all
you need is an aerator and dethatcher. ONly need a scarifier i fyour
breaking up hard pan to plant whatever initially, similar to a disk
harow but it does not go as deep and its usually much smaller in width
covered as well. Although the scarifiers on the backs of bulldozers
and largher ag type tractors usualy consist of one or two huge long
teeth that is drug into the soil to break up the hard pan to deeper
depths than most harrows will go. It takes decent hoprsepower to pull
a scarifier, where a dethatcher or aerator takes minimal power