JRCO Dethatcher

[CTmower]

Just wondering for those who have purchased one recently, where did you purchase them from?? Did you find the online prices to be cheaper or did you just buy it from your local dealer for the support?? I've found a few sites (Russo's Power equipment) and one other that are selling it at a decent price. Is $600 in the ball park i should expect to pay for it? Its going on a 61" Ferris walk behind

[punt66]

Just wondering for those who have purchased one recently, where did you purchase them from?? Did you find the online prices to be cheaper or did you just buy it from your local dealer for the support?? I've found a few sites (Russo's Power equipment) and one other that are selling it at a decent price. Is $600 in the ball park i should expect to pay for it? Its going on a 61" Ferris walk behind

Bought mine through my dealer. I think it was 529 with the mounting bar.

[grass-smoker]

I'm just starting out this year so I went to the MGIA show in MI last week to check everything out. I didnt see JRCO there but I found this dethatcher at the Mibar booth. It lifts with a 1000lb actuator and has downpressure which I didnt know I needed. The springs can be turned up so you can use the other attachments without always dethatching. I asked what mowers it worked on since I was buying a new one and he said any since it is a universal mount.



http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=139359&stc=1&d=1236728255

[task125]

http://www.powerequipmentwarehouse.com/jrco36inchtinerakedethatcher-p-1617.html

[lawnboy2068]

We have been using the JRCO dethatchers for years. They work great. We bought ours from a dealer long ago and just keep changing the tines each year ourselves. Not really a big deal to do this. I wouldn't spend the money to buy the fancy dethatcher with the down pressure as you don't need it for spring clean ups. Passive pressure is more than enough for spring dethatching. Just do multiple passes if you are not satisfied with the first pass. We normally do 2 passes and that is sufficient.

James

[grass-smoker]

I was told that the tines are supposed to have modest pressure and the downpressure is for holding the tires to the ground. That way you can go alot faster without the dethatcher bouncing all over the place.

[Jason Rose]

The Jrco dethatcher won't bounce. You also don't want the tines too low. I've done that accidently and found that I've broken a number of them off. You set it so the tines just touch the concrete (sitting on the driveway) when they are bent down. You can't drive too fast with it, because the mower has to have time to suck everything up good.

Biggest problems I had with mine were that in short turf or thin turf there's not enough there to grab the tines and pull them down. Also the tine breakage, I still don't know if I had it set too low or what, but it was fine for a couple years, then all the sudden it shed almost half of the tines over a few uses. Maybe the steel was brittle?

[mowerbrad]

I bought my JRCO last year, easily one of the best investments that I made. The down pressure is not needed, the weight of the unit is more than enough to keep it down. The nice thing about it is that to adjust the depth of which the tines go in you just have to adjust the two caster wheels on it, takes just a few seconds. Once I found my ideal setting, I haven't changed it since. You basically can go as fast as your mower will suck up the clippings. Very easy.

[humble1]

I'm just starting out this year so I went to the MGIA show in MI last week to check everything out. I didnt see JRCO there but I found this dethatcher at the Mibar booth. It lifts with a 1000lb actuator and has downpressure which I didnt know I needed. The springs can be turned up so you can use the other attachments without always dethatching. I asked what mowers it worked on since I was buying a new one and he said any since it is a universal mount.



http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=139359&stc=1&d=1236728255

who makes that unit,

[task125]

Is it ok to use the tine rake a few weeks after putting down pre emerg?

[grass-smoker]

Mibar Products makes it and the reason I liked it so much was because the dethatcher frame uses the same mount and actuator as the snow plow. You can switch between the plow and the dethatcher by pulling just a couple pins.

www.mibarproducts.com

I took more pics of it but I havent yet been able to find them on my computer.

[punt66]

Mibar Products makes it and the reason I liked it so much was because the dethatcher frame uses the same mount and actuator as the snow plow. You can switch between the plow and the dethatcher by pulling just a couple pins.

www.mibarproducts.com

I took more pics of it but I havent yet been able to find them on my computer.

yea, because its so important to thatch the lawn and plow the drive right after.

[Jason Rose]

yea, because its so important to thatch the lawn and plow the drive right after.

:laugh:

I was just looking at the plow... An ATV/ZTR plow that has down pressure. That has WIN written all over it. I bought a plow for a 4x4 ATV I had once, it was useless. Too light and would just ride up and ontop of anything that had been driven or walked on. I know it's not going to scrape 100% clean, but leaving a couple inches behind was useless. Give me a decent plow, with real down pressure, that's user friendly, that I can attach to MY machine (zero turn mower) and I'm sold.

[grass-smoker]

yea, because its so important to thatch the lawn and plow the drive right after.

Are you serious?
In Michigan it is highly possible that someone could do a spring clean up and plow snow all in one day. Meteorologist around here are hired thru temp services and called by their formal job title “fortune tellers”.

April shower can bring snow plow dollars!

[snowman 2008]

JASONROSE
Just by a Kimpex plow under $400 cdn.
Lift with the winch, for snow works great.

Paul:canadaflag:

[Jason Rose]

JASONROSE
Just by a Kimpex plow under $400 cdn.
Lift with the winch, for snow works great.

Paul:canadaflag:

Nice idea, but I don't have an ATV any more. And if the blade dosn't have some way to put down pressure on it, no thanks. Some, like my old Dixon mower plow, you use your foot to hold it down, and it works great, but the mower is too light to push more than about 4" of snow. My plow I had on the ATV was a Warn I think, and it used a wench. Man that sucked.

[grass-smoker]

The same company that has the plow/dethatcher also had an ATV in their booth with a plow mounted on it. www.mibarproducts.com They were selling four wheeler plows but also they have bolt on down pressure kits for any plow for any ATV. You could have bolted one of their downpressure kits onto the Warn plow you had or even a new Kimpex like JasonRose suggested and just disconnected the winch.

Oh well to late any ways.

[humble1]

Is it ok to use the tine rake a few weeks after putting down pre emerg?

dethatching after pre m or dimension goes down will break the barrier. We have had a lot of discussion in pesticide thread. Although you will have some control it wont be adequate.

[foreplease]

I bought one at the end of August after reading about it here. Had my (Toro) dealer order it. Paid $627 installed on my Z.

You didn't ask but it is not something I would buy again. In the down position it works well, however the lift mechanism broke (fatigued) the second time I used it. That part of it was not designed or built well IMO. I found it difficult, terribly difficult, to take on and off the mower and spent part of the winter reworking that to make it easier. Transporting it on a trailer is hard and, I think, hard on the unit.

It does work well in the down position though. I use it for overseeding worn areas in athletic fields and like that when it worked as designed that I could pick it up to cross base paths, jump from place to place on a field, etc. In my opinion it is more of a homeowner quality tool but it doesn't come with a professional tool price tag either.

[grass-smoker]

I bought one at the end of August after reading about it here. Had my (Toro) dealer order it. Paid $627 installed on my Z.

You didn't ask but it is not something I would buy again. In the down position it works well, however the lift mechanism broke (fatigued) the second time I used it. That part of it was not designed or built well IMO. I found it difficult, terribly difficult, to take on and off the mower and spent part of the winter reworking that to make it easier. Transporting it on a trailer is hard and, I think, hard on the unit.

It does work well in the down position though. I use it for overseeding worn areas in athletic fields and like that when it worked as designed that I could pick it up to cross base paths, jump from place to place on a field, etc. In my opinion it is more of a homeowner quality tool but it doesn't come with a professional tool price tag either.



You must be talking about a JRCO unit you purchased last year!

I say this because Mibar hasn’t ever had a mower attachment for sale before and I have been told their plow and dethatcher won’t be released to purchase for another month. At the show, they told me it was the first time their dethatcher was ever shown to the public, plus they don’t even have pictures or info about it on their own web site.

[foreplease]

Yes, I was responding to the first post.

[Jason Rose]

My JRCO rake has held up fine structurally, but mine is a 46 or 48 inch model. Yes, the mechanics of it are pretty wierd, and I'd have to lube up everything periodically in order to get both latches to hook when I'd pull the handle back to raise the rake off the ground. Never had anything break though, and I've taken a LOT of bumps with it in the "transport" position. Yes, they are a cluster.... to get mounted up, figuring out what hole is what each new use for the season. I never had a problem with mine in the folded up position either (straight up 90 degrees), but it's usually easier to just pull it off the machine and set it somewhere else, since to fold it up you have to pull 2 of the 4 pins anyway and reposition them.

If they use the same latches/handle on the larger units, I can see where they wouldn't last. Mine "feels" like it's at the breaking point in the transport position, but like I said, never had a problem with it.

[grass-smoker]

I dont even know if I need one yet but I was just checking them out to see if I could make a couple extra bucks off it. If worse comes to worse mabey I would get a small JRCO and sell it on Craigslist when I'm done using it this spring.