Would be hard to show the trapped air on a video if the cap was on. But in general yeah I agree.

After you do a “real” or through dethatch, it works well in a maintenance or maintaining low levels of thatch. If you have severe thatch, it really isn’t the proper tool for the job. For a $20 purchase and it not adding any more time to mow the lawn. It has its place and it is what it is. Cheers from the Bulldog 🍻

Appreciate it! Cheers from the Bulldog 🍻

Thanks! And cheers from the Bulldog 🍻

Awesome farm-engineering! Yeah, it’s not going to be the end-all attachment. But in my opinion it has earned it’s place in my tool box. For the weekly “maintenance” and for how simple it is it’s a fine modification. Cheers from the Bulldog 🍻

Thank you!

Nice find! Cheers!

Awesome! Information sharing and helping everyone continue to get better is what it is all about! Thanks for the FYI! Cheers 🍻

I had to take a look at them. After I fell off my chair for the price of $280 (or 4 easy payments of $70). I did see they said it would work on the Timemaster but only shown the Exmark for the pictures. I would like to see how the front adjustable axel on the Timemaster would interfere with their mounting plate. I think it is great the aftermarket has made a plug-n-play kit for these mowers. I would have like to see it a double row like the one I used. That would double the dethatching rate of probably 4” on the Red Magic unit to what my cobbled together unit has of roughly 2”. Happy to see the aftermarket step it up though!! Thanks for the FYI!! 🍻

Keep checking your local social media ‘for sale’ pages. They pop up. Cheers from the Bulldog 🍻

Caught that, did ya? 🤣

I do like a “little” exercise and if I can accomplish a chore while I exercise. Well that’s just a win-win. But my old 21” just made everything longer than it needed to be. The Timemaster is a light duty machine. Light enough my wife is comfortable operating it. But at 30” big enough to actually make forward progress. The tine Dethatcher really opened up the versatility!

I picked the Dethatcher up used, on one of those local sell-it-yourself sites. So I honestly don’t know much about it, and for the life of me, i can’t find any identifiable product numbers. I measured the total tine width and find it to be approximately 20”.

@@BulldogTractor thank you

I purchased it used off a local on-line webpage. Unfortunately the Dethatcher has no identification or part numbers. There is a John Deere sticker, and i assume it was off one of their 21” walk behind mowers?

Correct.

Unfortunately I just picked it up used on FB MarketPlace. I’m sure many can work, just need a little modification

Why did i do, what i did? I dunno i guess? Just felt this approach was the most unbiased approach. I didn’t visually flag or fence off the area for the camera. i did explain in the video the exact same area was used for all 3 cuts. I wasn’t really trying to get scientific, rather one day i just felt like i wanted a dethatcher and Toro refuses to make one for these light duty residential walk behind lawn mowers. So i found a used attachment (that has zero part identification numbers) did some metal fabrication and made it work. My intention was to show a dethatcher on a Timemaster. As a bonus, I tried to show my real world results in a way that made sense to me at the time. I thought and still feel that showing the debris in the bag is a valid measurement. By the third cut of the same area, and being previously bagged. The third cut and final bag should have very little to no extra clippings other than what the dethatcher kicked up. Agree to disagree. Maybe next year I’ll incorporate some of the comments and try to make a better video? 🍻 Cheers for viewing, and thanks for the comment. -Bulldog

@@BulldogTractor I guess the reason I wish you did some dethatching without the blade running was so I could compare it to what my Greenworks electric dethatcher pulls up. Not criticizing your work, just asking some questions..

@@mellowjammer Oh, I now I understand. I now can see where the confusion is. I own a corded power tool, the Sunjoe AJ801E which would be a fair comparison to the Greenworks corded dethatcher/ power rake. However trying to compare the Greenworks/Sunjoe Vs. front mount tine Dethatcher would be a slaughterhouse. The dedicated type power rakes are great at performing their sole purpose. My Frankenstein version of a front mount spring tine Dethatcher is more for “maintenance” or every day use. It really doesn’t add any additional time other than the time to perform regular mowing. It does however do light scarification to help with weekly maintenance. The comparison between a dedicated Dethatcher to the Toro Timemaster front mount spring tine Dethatcher was something i knew, but held bias against. I should have caught that, and addressed it but it slipped by me. That is actually a good video idea for a follow up to this video. It will be a runaway blowout, but would definitely show the comparison between a daily maintenance tool and a dedicated purpose built tool. Gimme a couple days and I’ll make a follow up to this one. Cheers for the comments and the video idea 🍻 -Bulldog

I looked for it, but couldn’t find one. I just picked it up used, then got busy with the air grinder and made it work 👍

BM22339 John Deere but good luck finding one. looks like they have been discontinued.

Nice video 👍 Thanks to this I just got one of these 2nd hand for maintenance! Hiring a proper detatcher or buying a little one and walking miles with it on our 1/2 acre did not appeal! Sooner do it little and often.

I picked it up used. Has a picture of John Deere on it. But that’s the only distinguishing mark. Wish it had a part number 🍻

@@BulldogTractor thanks

This is also my second Timemaster. Bought my first one in 2015 with the small motor. This second Timemaster with the larger motor works just fine for me. As I’ve owned these specific mowers for around 7 years, I guess my experience is different than yours. I’m wondering if yours is the smaller motor? As that could be the difference in our experiences. Cheers 🍻

Yeah, that is true.