Seems to me that in the UK, scarifiers are a common product to be found for sale at the average lawn/garden store (ie the eqivalent to Home Depot or Lowes) but in Canada (probably US too) all you will see (seasonally) for sale are lawn mowers and snow blowers.
Does anyone know for sure is a scarifier is the same as a verticutter (verticle cutter), and is either of them also known as a de-thatcher?
Examples:
AL-KO 3800VB Powerline Petrol Lawn Scarifier:
Billy Goat CR550H 5hp Honda Compact Power Rake
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Earlier this spring I was looking for an all-in-one machine that would be used primarily in the spring, and it would do the following or have the following capabilities:
- gas powered, 5 to 10 hp
- push or walk behind (not ride on)
- important feature is that it's a high suction vaccum cleaner with large canister recepticle
- vacuum deck contains brushes, knives, blades, wires, or some other spinning, whirling mechanism that can beat the ground and dislodge loose debris for the vacuum to pick up (like a beater bar on a vacuum cleaner). Minimal harm to grass.
Uses:
- pick up gravel, sand, pea-sized stones or small broken bits of asphalt on driveways, small parking lots, or the roadway in front of your house in the spring that was left behind by winter road dammage and sand/gravel put down by road maintanence vehicles during the winter.
- clean the lawn in the spring of all the various loose organic debris, leaf and twig fragments (etc) that even a lawn mower with a bag and with the deck set low to the ground will not pick up.
- grind up (to an extent beyond what a lawn mower would do) and pick up leaves in the fall.
Cost: Between $500 and $750 USD.
Is there such a machine?