I'm going to get a couple of those rakes before I head out to the farm tomorrow. I'm staying in town tonight, and I'm right near a Lowes. Both ponds get one heck of a lot of leafs each season. My other smaller pond (about 0.3 acres) gathers a lot of leaves. While doing so I took out a lot of leaf muck, which is my ponds' other nemises. I was out with my backhoe today taking out my annual crop of purple loosetrife on my main pond (0.7 acres). I want to really thank BDCANETTI for posting what he has been doing with these rakes. Hopefully by hand but if it's too heavy we will use a 4-wheeler to tow.Īnyone here ever seen or heard of this idea? I will post pictures of the contraption and hopefully results this weekend. Then we will drop that in the middle by boat and pull it to shore. Creating one large 9 foot version of the common lake rake. The plan is to fasten all 3 rakes side by side by bolting them through the face to the heavy duty angle iron and use the shorther piece at the end of the handles to stop them from moving side to side, strengthen the assembly and hold the eye bolts. (1) 6 foot piece of heavy duty aluminum 'angle iron' (1)9 foot piece of heavy duty aluminum 'angle iron' I just returned from Home Depot where I bought Good idea only that it will take forever doing this with a 3 foot rake.

One of my neighbors who I share the pond with suggested we tow it out with a paddle boat to the middle and drop it. The problem is my pond is approx 300 ft across in some areas so I cannot cast to the middle.

I cast it, let it sink and since I have a muddy bottomed pond, the weeds come right out with ease. Just a 3 foot aluminum landscape rake attatched to a rope. I have been using the commonly seen 'lake rake' with some success.

Hand dredging a lake