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I have used this product for many years and had a hard time looking for one until I found it in Amazon. It works very well for my application.

Excellent. no comparison to the new blades with ridiculous plastic dethatcher devices which do not last for half a yard.

Excellent! I was amazed how much dead grass this rake produced. Well made and easy to install. Buy it.

It makes raking a whole lot easier! I have heard that these are extremely dangerous to use because the springs can break off and go shooting through the mower housing into your leg, but I've never had any issues...

Rake did the job. The tines will wear down the deeper you want to dethatch but very easy to replace.

Just right for your flower border.

Tough rake head and narrow enough to get into tight spots.Been rough on it and not one broken tine yet !!!

Sturdy but lightweight. Allows you to get into tight spots and under the bushes more easily.

Comfortable to use, not too heavy

well worth it !!!! extra long handle

Worked like a charm using medium back and forth motion.

worked great for cleaning up my Floratam lawn for the spring

For the price, I think it's pretty good. Not fabulous, but - price, right?
Had to modify a bit for my electric mower, but no biggie, and it worked well after that.

CAUTION: You can strip your lawn to DIRT if you don't pay attention to height settings, uneven places in the yard, tree roots, etc... The "springs" that do the thatching are mostly to keep it from breaking and flying apart if you hit something like a rock - they do not flex a great deal, and it will flat shave the grass down to nothing - trust me. (Yeah, my bad, but it's growing back... ;-) )

This product works as advertised and when I had an issue with one of the springs, the company was very helpful.

Works as advertised.

I had to slightly file the groves in the blade with a round file to get my Honda Harmony bolts to fit, but worked well.

does what it is suppose to

Product is Ok, works as suppose. I managed to fit it to 18" 6.5 amp black&decker electric mower (using file to shave some material in the hole and installing it over and across of the main blade). Started to use it, and it worked file for about half of the lawn. Then I noticed that the rotation is slowing, and in a minute smoke came out of motor. So, be aware that using this blade on electric mower can blow the motor, resulting in over $100 in repair (I actually will by new mower instead).

I really cannot say as it was not as "Universal" as I thought, and did not fit my 16in Remington cordless mower mounting holes.

Worked as expected

I got this product because I rent a house and didn't want to spend the money on a power dethatcher. The yard isn't technically my responsibility but my landlord only mows about 4 times a year here in central Illinois which basically leaves hay on the ground that never really digests. I had purchased a Cub Cadet walk-behind mower to mulch and bag leaves (not his responsibility at all) so I thought I would give this a shot as a compromise. I got mixed results.

Installation and use: Very easy to install on my Cub Cadet SRC 621 walk-behind mower. Did not have to use any of the adapter washers. For this to work best, you have to walk very, very, VERY slowly. Its more like slowly inching your way across the yard. However long it takes to mow your yard, with this blade it should take 4x to 8x longer to dethatch well. Because it only has two tines, if you go too fast, it will miss spots. Mower was very slightly harder to push.

I'll start by saying that my yard isn't very flat so I didn't expect tremendous results to begin with. There is a problem with this design and it is that the tines aren't angled down far enough. I had to set the mower so low that it took my green grass almost down to the bare dirt. It didn't rip it out, it just cut it so low that I'm afraid it might die now. If the tines were angled down more that wouldn't have happened. Maybe another company makes some differently design tines that are angled lower (further from the blade)?

After I used this, I put my regular blade back on to collect all the trimmings which revealed that I had about 2/3rds thatch and 1/3 green grass. I also used this to try to remove some ground moss in a couple of spots on my yard and again, it worked okay for that as well. Maybe removing between 1/2 and 2/3 of the ground moss.

Conclusion: While this did remove a good deal of thatch (probably 60-70% from my uneven lawn), it was so detrimental to the actual green grass that I probably won't use it again. Although if I just mow/mulch the lawn regularly, I hope to never have to use this again. If I do decide to dethatch this rented yard any more, I will most likely buy the power rake with the plastic tines because it looks like they stick down further from the blade (has anyone used both that can confirm or deny that?). The plastic tines might also be able to dig into the lower spots of my uneven yard and pull out more thatch while not harming the greenery as much. If I do buy and use that blade, I will update this review when posting my review for that one. Also, I will now only dethatch at a time when the grass isn't "in bloom" yet to further reduce the risk of killing viable grass.

In the past, I have hand raked my lawn, with regular lawn rakes and with a specially designed "de-thatching rake," with a lot of hard work for the desired results. And then what to do with all of that thatch stuff? Then I hired someone to do it for me, with mixed results for the money. Then I had my lawn service power rake my lawn (good job, for a lot of $$$$$). Finally I decided to try one of these Power Rake blades for my lawn mower. After reading one of the previous reviews, I combined this blade with the mulching blade on my mower, mounted at 90 degrees apart. The result was a fairly well thatched lawn with the thatch and clippings chopped up so fine that it was hardly noticeable, all with little more effort than just mowing the lawn. All in all, I would recommend the use of this product for a less than professional but still acceptable result for the money and effort.

Haven't used it yet but it is made like the old one so i expect it will do the job.

the springs wore out before the job was finished and I have a small yard.

The plastic finders broke soon after first use. This isn't a quality durable product.

This thing just didn't work... I just lost the packaging, and kept it.

Sealed package, but only came with 1 spring.

Beat the heck out of the grass and little else.

You'd think by the time I reached my 50s, I'd know better than to buy "once size fits most" products, but this seemed like an affordable alternative to the hassle of renting a thatcher. For all I know, it works great - but on my Craftsman electric mower (listed as one of the "compatible" models) the center hole on the thatcher blade didn't seat snugly on the drive shaft on the mower. Thinking it was just the nature of the design, I tightened the lug screw and started it up. Six feet into my thatching there was a huge bang and the thatcher blade shot out in front of the mower! Yikes! It took me awhile to find the mower lug and washers in my lawn, as this device had simply spun them off. In the process, it also stripped the threads on the drive shaft, so I spent an hour semi-rethreading it. Unfortunately, it is permanently damaged, allowing the blade to slip a bit every time I start it up. Ugh! Lesson learned... again! Amazon kindly took this product back, but my mower will never be the same.

First it didn't fit my mower so I had to slot the mounting holes, that done I tried it on the highest setting for my mower since I read about how it can tear up your lawn. Didn't touch the grass until lowered to the lowest setting then it tore the crap out of it. I would have tried to return had I not modified the holes. Not worth it maybe the plastic tips ones are better.