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Maintaining green spaces

Forestry rake

On the left, the rake catches stumps and roots, the fine soil falls back between the tines. On the right, the bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps and strips the plot. Computer-generated image.
Left: the rake catches stumps and roots, the fine soil falls back between the tines. Right: the bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps and strips the plot. Computer-generated image.

Spaced tines that hold back stumps and let the soil through.
The whole tool lies in that gap:
you take away the wood, you keep the soil.

Other names for this tool: windrowing rake, land clearing rake, rake bucket, stump rake, forestry comb, stump-clearing rake.

The essentials
Family
Maintaining green spaces
Classes (t)
0.6 to 15 t
Coupler
We calculate it with you for your machine
Power source
None — passive tool
Use
Land clearing

Compare with the skeleton bucket →

01 Use

What it is for

On the left, the rake catches stumps and roots, the fine soil falls back between the tines. On the right, the bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps and strips the plot. Computer-generated image.
the rake catches stumps and roots, the fine soil falls back between the tines the bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps and strips the plot
Left: the rake catches stumps and roots, the fine soil falls back between the tines.
Right: the bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps and strips the plot.
What sets it apart:
it separates the plant matter from the soil without taking one away with the other.
Computer-generated image.

By scraping the ground, the tines catch stumps, roots, branches and stones, while the fine soil falls back between them.
You windrow what you have pulled out, you load, and the plot keeps its soil.

Land clearing, bringing land back into cultivation, cleaning up after a forestry felling, clearing a corridor:
everywhere the plant matter has to be separated from the soil without taking one away with the other.
A model recorded covers machines of 0.8 to 9 t and calls for no hydraulic line.

What it avoids is more important than what it does. A full bucket takes the topsoil away with the stumps — and that soil goes to tip, then is bought back.
The rake leaves it on the spot.
On a farm plot or a landscaping site, that is the essence of its value.

02 Key technical data

On which machine?

On a micro-excavator up to 2 t: a forestry rake from 400 to 800 mm wide.
On a mini-excavator from 2 to 5 t: from 400 to 1 200 mm.
On an excavator from 5 to 10 t: from 600 to 1 500 mm.
On an excavator from 10 to 20 t: from 800 to 1 500 mm.
It fits all quick couplers, or directly on the pins.

What the tool does

It is used for land clearing.
Its working width ranges from 400 to 1 500 mm.
The usual widths are 400, 600, 800, 1 000 or 1 200 mm, to be checked with you.
The weight of the tool: we calculate it with you for your machine.

What is needed on the hydraulic side

It needs no hydraulic connection: it is a passive tool.

Figures taken from 20 models on the market.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.

How to read these values →

03 Your study

Have your machine checked.

Give us your excavator model, the area to be cleared and the nature of what you are pulling out.
Above all, tell us whether you have to keep the topsoil:
that is what separates the rake from the bucket.

What we need to answer you
  • Your machine Its make and its tonnage.
  • The auxiliary circuit Its flow in l/min, its pressure in bar, single- or double-acting.
  • The coupler in place Its system and its class.
  • The work The use, and the material.

Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.

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Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.

Forestry rake holding stumps and roots while the soil falls back between the tines
The stumps stay in the tines, the soil falls back. It is that gap that makes the whole tool — and that avoids carting away the topsoil with the timber.
Synthetic image.
04 Choice

What determines the choice

  • 01 — The spacing of the tines It is the single criterion for this tool.
    Too close together, it takes the soil away and becomes a bucket again; too far apart, it lets the fine roots through and the work has to be done again.
    The spacing is chosen on what you want to hold back.
  • 02 — The width It decides the output on an open plot.
    Under trees or between trees to be kept, it is the opposite:
    an excessive width makes manoeuvring impossible.
  • 03 — The strength of the tines They work in bending, on roots that resist and sometimes on blocks.
    A bent tine is not straightened:
    check that they are bolt-on and replaceable one by one.
  • 04 — The back of the tool Some models have a solid back that makes it possible to push and to windrow.
    Others are entirely open and serve only to gather.
    It is not the same working method.
05 Check

What is checked before ordering

  • The weight at the end of the arm A wide rake works with the arm extended, and it pulls.
    It is the most unfavourable position for stability.
  • What you are trying to hold back Whole stumps, fine roots, stones, or all three.
    It is that answer that fixes the spacing, and it cannot be guessed.
  • The nature of the soil In sticky ground, the soil does not fall back by itself between the tines and the tool loses its main value.
  • The interface Coupler type and size, or pin dimensions.
    The tool is supplied with the matching plate — see the couplers.
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