Price: $159.99 - $139.99
(as of Dec 15, 2024 00:01:09 UTC - Details)

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Power Garden Tools

2-IN-1 FUNCTION: Dethatch your lawn to remove thick thatch and allow your lawn to get more nutrients and sunlight. Scarify to cut grooves that improve water and air movement through the soil
POWERFUL PERFORMANCE: The 13 Amp motor, gets up to 3700RPM. This gives adequate power to dethatch or scarify some of the toughest lawns
16” WIDE PATH: Equipped with 16“ dethatcher/scarifier attachments to tackle the job faster
ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT: Tackle many levels of terrain with the 14-position height adjustment, ranging from -0.35” to 0.19" for the scarify attachment and -0.19” to 0.35” for the dethatcher attachment
12 GALLON COLLECTION BAG: Easily collect and dispose of lawn debris and thatch without manual raking
EASY TO USE: Sturdy yet easy to maneuver for operational efficiency. The height of the handle bar is adjustable for user comfort
INCLUDED: Electric dethatcher/scarifier tool, dethatcher attachment, scarifier attachment
Reviewer: space kaiser
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My complete thorough review and experience
Review: This is a middle range consumer level product. Bad reviews either expected too much or were written by people who didn't read the manual. There is a lot of useful info included in the manual including the proper use of the machine and proper preparation before using it. You should definitely take the time to read it if you go for this Dethatcher/Scarifier. It should be suitable for most suburban lawns. Mine is 7500 SF and I did everything at least twice so 20,000SF wouldn't be a problem. I'll give my thorough review and add in some advice based on the mistakes I made. If you're like me then you haven't dethatched in a long while and you've noticed irrigating and fertilizing aren't giving the same results you expect. Thatch is a fibrous layer of plant material that builds over itself year after year. How much thatch you have depends on your soil biology and species of grass. Thatch should be broken down by microbes, worms, etc but excessive pesticide use or certain soils don't give an environment for them to thrive in so more thatch is put down each year than the biology can remove. Also certain species of grass produce significant thatch while others produce next to none. Thatch is not the dead or burnt out grass you can rake up. If you trowel out a square about 4" deep and look at it from the side, thatch will be a dark brown layer sitting right on top of the soil. It might be anywhere from nothing to 1" thick. Power raking is using a machine to rake for you. Power raking picks up a lot of dead leaves of grass and other debris to give more light and air to the soil. Dethatching is ripping up that top fibrous layer to expose the soil. This machine does both but cannot match the power of a gas powered dethatcher you might rent. For power raking purposes it's very well suited. For dethatching it will get it done with a little extra effort.This product should more be thought of as something you use to maintain your yard. It is designed around yearly or bi-yearly dethatching/power raking and not really designed to take the toughest of jobs with ease.That said, it can definitely be used to get a tough job done as it did for me. It will require more effort than you may be thinking it should however. The bag is small as many reviewers said, but after I got through the thickest thatch and was on my last pass the bag was actually perfectly sized. It is small enough so you don't overload it weight wise and easily detaches for emptying straight into a can or bag. For maintenance purposes I have no doubt the bag will be extremely useful. A few things you need to do/know first.1) Cut your lawn short to around 1-1/2" if you can do it. People complaining their healthy grass got ripped out didn't read the manual. It will scalp your lawn if the grass is too long. I'm on a hill and have uneven ground so I was probably around 2" and it ripped some up. I think even at shorter lengths you should expect some thinning but if you plan to overseed or have a spreading type species you want it thinned. 2) Understand that the height settings are not so you can dig deeper but so you can adjust the machine based on how much wear your tines or knives have. Get on the ground and look at where the tines extend down to. If they go digging into the dirt you will rip stuff out and wear them down way too fast. The dethatcher attachment works great on the highest setting right out of the box (transport mode) if you have a lot of material to clear out. The scarifier attachment should be set so the dig through the thatch layer and 1/8" into the soil to help open it up and aerate. Going deeper with either attachment will work but it will cause more damage to your existing lawn if that matters for your project.3) My first impression after opening the box was that it was going to be a cheap piece of garbage based on the feel. The plastic felt flimsy and it didn't seem to weigh enough. Gas engines are heavy, need heavy frames and wheels but this is very light. It's rugged enough and doesn't need to support a combustion engine. I'm glad I didn't return it based on first impressions.4) You need a quality extension cord. I used a 50' 14 AWG cord on a 15 amp circuit and I think I got as much power out of it as possible. They recommend a 12 AWG cord in the manual for cords 50' and up but the cord holder on the handle is too small for a 12 AWG which seems like a design flaw. I have a shorter 12 AWG cord I tried and I did not notice a difference in performance between that (25') and my 14 AWG (50'). The longer your cord the more voltage drop you have and that can drop performance but I think my 14 AWG was fine.5) The air intake vents to cool the motor are in a really poor spot right next to the height adjustment lever right over the wheels. The holes will get blocked up from material that you have to clear out often. As an electric motor it will burn out if it gets too hot. It was about 80 degrees out and I let it cool down every 30 minutes to be safe. You spend more time raking up anyway.6) The height settings are counterintuitive (to me anyway.) #1 is the tallest height while #3 is the shortest. 7) The cord will get in your way, but once you get the hang of it, it's not a big deal. Just make sure you start closest to the outlet and work your way out. The cord should always lay over the area you already worked so you don't run the risk of running it over.8) If you have sprinkler heads, tree roots, etc, mark them with flags or something else so you don't run over them.9) You have to keep moving. Slowing down or stopping with the machine running strips it bare.I started with the dethatching tines and the bag on but it filled too quickly. I took the bag off and stuck a piece of wood under the rear hatch which made it a little easier for the thatch to go out the back. I did the first pass on the transport height setting and it raked out many barrels of old material. I raked this up and then went again with it set a little lower and it still pulled out a lot. I raked that and then realized that the tines were not doing a great job of taking out my thatch layer. I switched out the dethatcher for the scarifier - super easy to do. The scarifier will kick back rocks so I took out the wood piece. It worked great on the thatch. It cut right through it to the soil in one shot. I played with the height to get it where I wanted it. The scarifier will chop up any little bumps or unevenness which is good but it destroys more of your lawn while doing that. At this stage I felt like I might've been ruining the lawn because it was looking pretty bare and weak. I overseeded so it was important to me that I actually expose the soil completely since you need soil contact to properly germinate. 3 weeks later and I can see good strong growth from my existing and the new stuff is coming in. Next spring I believe it will fill in and do great now that water and nutrients will actually hit the soil. I neglected the lawn for a while so it will take time to bounce back. But all I have to do is maintain it next year which should be easy.You can see how much wear I put on the tines and the scarifier. I did not call the company to find out how much replacements cost but I think I can get another couple seasons out of these and decide if I want to replace them then.This unit can definitely handle what you throw at it. I treated it gently in the beginning but not so much towards the end and it held up. It's tougher than it looks. A screw came out where the handles attach directly to the motor housing and I lost it somewhere. I just used a spare screw I had instead and it was fine.All in all, I would recommend this machine if you only need maintenance or if you can spare the extra days it will take to do the tougher jobs. The only drawbacks are that it could be a little more powerful and the tines and blades got more wear than I expected. For a middle range product it is good enough and for the price I got it ($95) it's a deal.

Reviewer: Kimberly Paiva
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Worked great
Review: Arrived quickly and easy to assembleThis did a fabulous job de-thatching my lawn. The bag is too small and it was quicker to just rake up the dead grass rather than stop and empty every 2 minutes. (I was emptying more than actual detaching.)Will see how long this holds up but it does the job and a great price !

Reviewer: Kurt
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect for the price
Review: The unit is obviously not something that could be used commercially -- it is economically built for casual use. With that said, I was very impressed with the design, construction, and features. It was very well thought out, so I expect with casual use it should continue to perform very well as long as I use it within limits. I have centipede grass which has very tough runners, and I have a lot of thatch. It would be easy to try to do too much, but there is an excellent over-protection current shutoff that worked very well when the motor load exceeded design limits, so you are somewhat protected from overworking the machine. I'm impressed with the quality considering the low price. I quickly found out that the centipede would jam the machine so I had to use a higher blade position that I wanted, but it turned out to be perfect, as a lower setting would have torn up my turf too much. Overall I am very pleased as it did a fine job, and had features that kept me from damaging my lawn, all at a great price.

Reviewer: J. H
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Power!
Review: I used the scarifier and worked amazing! Plenty of power to “till” up top 1/2” of soil on my lawn renovation.Very impressed! Performed better, lightweight & easier to handle than those 200+ lb rentals, now I have it when I need it.Rest of lawn will be using thatcher bladeOnly complaint is vent/filter for motor should be on top, not front, as clogged while using. No deduction in rating however

Reviewer: Clifton Day
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Clift
Review: Worked good except it did not catch grass in the back bag. The front vent got dirty quick it’s spit grass in front of it. It only work for 10 ft.² and then died and will not start anymore. no one answers the support telephone number

Reviewer: Emma
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ok for price
Review: Works ok. Screw holding handle on fell on on first use so now I have to find a replacement screw.

Reviewer: REG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great little Dethatcher
Review: read the reviews for this and thought why not try. This works great, read about over heating, and I am guessing that it was for people that added bigger collection bag. I did yard once at default level, then once again at lower level and this dethatcher did great. Yes bag it small, yes you empty it a lot, but I figure that the empty gives it chance to cool. Amazing how much dead grass I got. Easy to put together and easy to use.

Reviewer: dadio
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I only used it once so far but it worked great!Ya people complain that the bag is small but I would rather empty the bag a few times more than rake the grass!Plus use it once and it’s paid for considering what they charge to power rake my yard!Using a cord is a little cumbersome but if you don’t like the cord then go spend 3 times the cost on a gas one, but you only use it once or twice a year so who cares about the cord.Great little machine and found out it’s made by black and Decker that’s why the build quality is pretty decent.

Reviewer: ARESH T.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lasted about 60 minutes before the gears on the thatcher attachment wore out. Trying to reach customer service was an absolute joke. Hours and hours on the phone and never talk to anyone. They will not handle the warranty claim online. Returned it. For the price it is absolute garbage. I picked one up at Canadian Tire for 140 dollars and it is still working about 4 hours in.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It is a good product but would be better to have it cordless

Reviewer: Frank
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Je viens de finir mon terrain de 10,000 et cette machine a assuré solide!Quel produit merveilleux, je ne regrette pas du tout mon achat!

Reviewer: Dona r.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great machine and have lots of power on it.my lawn is pretty bad and I use the this machine and after add little bit of seeds and soil and now I have a pretty good looking lawn.(you can see on the pictures before and after).you won't be disappoint with this machine.