Mecanil Rake

Looks effective for a solo loader operator, especially for the lawn. I question how clean the lawn really is and whether manual efforts are needed after the fact, but if that’s your crew’s day in day out kind of work, hydraulics are great…especially in dead Ash country!
 
Maybes you should make a long portion of the grab bar out of round material so the rake angle can be adjusted for a slope and then have enough square stock toward the back end that sliding the grapple back a few inches will lock it in level.
 
I do the same with my grapple rake, with my grapple truck. I pinch the square portion that the bmg grapple goes in and can rake grass or blacktop. Typically I use the mini in any grass situations, but the truck loader works great to push the final debris back into a pile to finish clean up.


Typically I grab slightly higher, but here's a short clip of using mine. https://photos.app.goo.gl/yJRParPGRQ7h9M4R7
 
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I’m thinking he means use it with a loader style boom but do not use it with a long reach knuckle boom made up of several boom sections.
 
oceans said:
This was my rake the other day. Worked pretty nicely. I was laughing and thinking about this very thread while using it! It’s definitely a throw away item, though…

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ha ha used a lot of rakes like that

forgive me I is old
I always called my prentice and Serco loader style clamtrucks, Knuckle boom loaders

Thought booms like EFFER and such were called K booms, which cannot take the sideloading my BM rake would put on it
 
tnttree said:
ha ha used a lot of rakes like that

forgive me I is old
I always called my prentice and Serco loader style clamtrucks, Knuckle boom loaders

Thought booms like EFFER and such were called K booms, which cannot take the sideloading my BM rake would put on it
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It’s funny. My understanding was that “k” was for “knuckle” and they were one and the same. Some k booms telescope and some do not. If you search CraneTrader under the knuckleboom tab, they compile everything from z fold log loaders to 100’ city cranes.

There was a thread here a while ago with folks going back and forth about what’s a block and what’s a pulley. I’m not trying to split hairs. We all have our understanding from somewhere…Point is to use the tool right which is what you’re doing. Hope the rake does well!
 
oceans said:
It’s funny. My understanding was that “k” was for “knuckle” and they were one and the same. Some k booms telescope and some do not. If you search CraneTrader under the knuckleboom tab, they compile everything from z fold log loaders to 100’ city cranes.

There was a thread here a while ago with folks going back and forth about what’s a block and what’s a pulley. I’m not trying to split hairs. We all have our understanding from somewhere…Point is to use the tool right which is what you’re doing. Hope the rake does well!
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Only because I'm a stickler for nomenclature. The AMSE makes those definitions. They define as an Articulating Boom Crane, and an Articulating Boom Loader. There is no hard and fast definition for Knuckleboom that I can find but that doesn't mean its not out there somewhere. Just some trivia you can impress all your friends at the next kegger. LOL
 
Steve Connally said:
Only because I'm a stickler for nomenclature. The AMSE makes those definitions. They define as an Articulating Boom Crane, and an Articulating Boom Loader. There is no hard and fast definition for Knuckleboom that I can find but that doesn't mean its not out there somewhere. Just some trivia you can impress all your friends at the next kegger. LOL
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up here in MN we mostly called them a Prentice loader no matter what brand, technically thought it was called a Knuckle Boom loader mounted on your debris truck making it a clamtruck
Minnesota nomenclature ?
 
oceans said:
Looks effective for a solo loader operator, especially for the lawn. I question how clean the lawn really is and whether manual efforts are needed after the fact, but if that’s your crew’s day in day out kind of work, hydraulics are great…especially in dead Ash country!
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looks like Justin has it dialed in - no secondary raking needed
 

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Reviving an old thread, but it seemed like the best one to show this video under.

Branch Manager grapple rake cleaning up after an Oak removal. The grapple truck does not run the rake as effiently as the miniskid does, but running it like this avoids a lot of trips up and down the ladder while working solo.

After this video shut off, I hopped on the mini, did a final rake, and collected debris along the truck that I couldn't see while I'm the operator seat. Leaf blow and climb back up for a final loading.

No modifications needed to the rake to use it like this, and it works well with my other mini grapple as well, a grapple rake.
 
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