Gravel Separating Rake

[hemmjo]

We have some crushed limestone gravel walkways and a patio around our home. They are just a base of #57 which ranges in size from 1/2" - 1". Over that base is a couple of inches of #8 limestone which ranges from 1/8" to 3/8". Over time the larger can work it way up, or the smaller works its way down, either way some of the larger ends up on top. My wife does not like that look. Since she puts up with me. I needed a way to clean the big gravel off the walkways. The tines on a standard garden or road rake are spaced too wide to be of any help. I made a new rake to separate the large from the small gravel.

The handle is from a concrete grooving tool. For the rake I just used materials from my collection of left overs. I do not have any SCRAP material, all the stuff I have is left overs or collected from the junk piles of other people or businesses for the specific purpose of "making something someday". Just FYI, that is how I explain the collection of stuff I keep that others think is junk!!! So in addition to getting the gravel cleaned up, I managed to score points because I was using stuff from that "ugly pile" for her!!!!

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Mixed gravel sizes vs Separated Gravel


Rake tines and Gravel and Handle Attachment


Drawing

[Frank S]

Scoring points from the other half is never a bad thing. Without them we can never feel whole, I often wonder why mine has put up with me for 34 years.
the thing I like most about your rake would be its weight, Garden rakes are fine for scratching and smoothing the soil between the rows or removing the weeds after you hoe. A good heavy steel leaf rake for raking the fall leaves or grass trimmings or scratching the thatch is getting impossible to find. But a gravel rake? forget trying to find one of those.

[Jon]

I do not have any SCRAP material, all the stuff I have is left overs or collected from the junk piles of other people or businesses for the specific purpose of "making something someday".

This is a classic homemade tool builder line

[DIYer]

Thanks hemmjo! We've added your Gravel Separating Rake to our Farm and Garden category,
as well as to your builder page: hemmjo's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Gravel Separating Rake by hemmjo

tags: garden

[WmRMeyers]

I differentiate between junk, which is stuff I'll be putting in the dumpster when I'm not busy with something else, and Junque. Which is good stuff that I know I'll need someday. Bits of metal, broken tools, cans and bottles of labeled chemicals or paints, random electronics, and so on. One man's junk is another man's Junque.

[Hans Pearson]

This reminds me of many years ago when a storeman in the Douglas hangar of the airline where I was an apprentice, ordered a whole handful of AN4-40 aircraft standard bolts and had them welded onto a steel bar to make a rake. I made a rake later using 4" roofing screws and I still have it.

[tonyfoale]

I do not have any SCRAP material, all the stuff I have is left overs

Once I saw that, I immediately renamed my stuff.

[Jon]

I am reminded of the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer meme, a reference to when television was entertaining, about 30 years ago.

[bruce.desertrat]

What's he doing describing my shop like that!!! :-)

[hotdog0627]

Yep.... That's me.... Guilty, your honor.