Customer Reviews

Yard Butler LT-20 World's Greatest Rake

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I would not normally get this excited about a rake, but this is the rake I have been looking for. This was the rake I grew up with. I made my first money mowing lawns and raking leaves. Of course at the time, I just thought this was what all rakes were like. But after buying my own house and raking my own yard I quickly learned the difference. When I couldn't find the World's Greatest Rake, I just bought whatever green rake they have at Home Depot. It was okay but got pretty beat up pretty fast. It also did not perform the way I remember a rake should.

The World's Greatest Rake has free floating steel teeth that are incredibly flexible while still having a really good bite. It will pick leaves up out of gravel and landscaping and leave the rocks behind. You can rake right over bedding plants to get the leaves without damaging the plant. Seriously, this is one incredible rake and totally works better than any other tool I have ever seen or used. I am glad the company is still making them.

I actually bought this rake for my Aunt who is 94 years old. I had it shipped to her.

I contacted her to find out if she received the rake and she was raving about how she loved the rake. She said it was wonderful and she was very happy with it.

I asked her on a scale of 1 - 10 how would she rate it and she gave it a 10.

This is a nice rake, but I have had to work on it multiple times already and have had to replace one of the nuts. I do love the way it rakes (it is very flexible, easy to clean off stuck leaves) but it needs to be put together better. I have another rake that isnt as flexible or easy to clean but I havent had to work on it once.

My first impression of this rake is that for the $, it is a lot smaller than I expected. The label reads easy to rake over beds. It looks impressive, but I was looking for a larger commercial grade rake. I am not sure how long the bolted tines will stay together? It's not what I was looking for.

The new season of "Dancing with the Stars" began last night. I mention the show in passing because I have my own "dance" show going on right in my own yard. It's called "Dancing with the Rake."

And dancing, I do. Sweep. Sweep. Turn. Underarm sweep. Thrust out. Pull in. Chop. Chop. And again. Sweep.....

Oh my, it's that time of the year if you have Live Oak trees. Nasty little buggers. When your trees are shedding in the fall, mine is sitting there with its dark green little leaves, just biding their time. Then in the spring when all other yards are looking good, flutter, flutter, zip, zip, down they fall, singly, in pairs, in dozens. They look like a horde of butterflies coming in for spring.

On Sunday I took out this rake (actually a Sears model) and began my annual dance. Since my Live Oak has a tree trunk with a circumference of four feet (oh yeah, it's a whopper), it puts out the leaves--er, puts down? drops out? dumps? delivers with glee? with malice? OK, I'm exaggerating. It's just a tree doing its tree thing (without getting into the realm philosophy).

On Sunday I bagged two 39 gallons bags by raking just within arm's length. Today I did it again and sacked three bags' worth. My lovely neighbor came out and said, "You have millions of leaves." Yes, I wanted to say, you are so observant. Actually, I think her husband blew MY leaves which were on THEIR driveway back into MY yard. Can you believe that? Nor did I mention that half the leaves came from HER pecan tree. But I rake those without complaint because I "borrow" pecans from her yard.

Meanwhile I just have to dance and will dance about 40 bags full. Baaaaaa.