Troy Bilt Flex Lawn DeThatcher vs HomeMade

Troy Bilt Flex Lawn De-Thatcher vs HomeMade. What I learned during the installation of the new lawn In front of my house, there is No way to control mother nature. My front lawn is planted on a hill side, which is fine once the grass seed has germinated, but a roll of the dice after the seed and other soil amendments has been spread. While regular watering is necessary for the first few weeks after planting, hard rain is your worst enemy. Wash outs will occur and play havoc on your newly planted lawn. Enter the flex de thatching tool, designed as an attachment to the Troy bilt flex power head system. Dethatchers are usually pulled behind a garden tractor to pull up the dead grass and lawn clippings that smother the soil. Here I will use a modified Troy bilt Flex deThatcher attachment to loosen the spread loam. It will cut grooves in a perpendicular direction to the down hill flow of water, should bad luck bring hard rain during the first week of seedling germination. The rows made by the de thatching tool will also provide more area and better soil contact for the newly spread grass seed. Originally I was going to build a home made lawn dethatcher using available wheels and such from around the garage, with the only purchased parts being the spring tines. A search of local farm and garden supply stores proved these to be very costly for the amount I needed to build a pull behind dethatching tool. A bit of quick arithmetic proved I could not build the dethatcher for less money and so modified the Troy Bilt Flex dethatcher tool to suit. This video of the home modified de-thatcher in use and shows the operation and results of the Troy Bilt Flex dethatcher attachment mounted on the 3 point hitch of a garden tractor. = =