Brinly DT-48BH Tow Behind Dethatcher, 48-Inch

Once I finished the assembly the Thatcher was on my yard tractor working it's very sturdy and worked fine with the wheel adjustment and no weights on the tool if you want something that does what you expected this is recommended by me

After assembly and set up this operates flawlessly and can really get out a lot of thatch, moss, etc. It's quite heavy duty and will no doubt last my lifetime as long as I don't abuse it. I have the lawn rake  Brinly STS-427LXH 20 Cubic Feet Tow Behind Lawn Sweeper, 42-Inch  and got 5 full loads of thatch out of a bit more than 1/2 acre of lawn. The lawn looks amazing, it's easy to use and has held up well.Assembly is much easier than the lawn sweeper ( see my review there ) but it isn't a walk in the park. The instructions are a bit better probably only because it's a much less complex product. A few assembly tips follow.My unit didn't come with carded and identified nuts and bolts, they were simply randomly dumped into to plastic bags. Go through the nuts and bolts and sort and identify them as some of them look close but are slightly different. Having a small 12 volt drill/driver and a nut driver set really helped putting this together. Wear safety glasses and gloves, the rake prongs will often be aimed right at your eyes during assembly and it's easy to bend over into them. As you get to each stage of assembly set your fasteners out in an easy to reach place as at times you'll be upside down and backwards. Don't lose any nuts or bolts...there are no extras!The assembly instructions have you putting the draw bar together piece by piece on the de-thatching unit... don't do that! Assemble the draw bar as a unit and then mount it, it's far far simpler and easier to get all the angles right. After assembly make sure all your bolts are properly tightened and seated as it's easy for one to slip out of register.It works really well, I added three regular sized red bricks to add a little weight and it runs right along digging out piles of dead grass. It's a bit of a bear to put together but nothing like the devil's spawn the leaf sweeper was. It's worth the money.

I bought this mainly for raking up moss. We have lots of moss in the PNW and raking up dead moss is time consuming.This dethatcher works great. I put down moss killer and in a few days it was time to rake/dethatch.I did not use added weight, but might in the future.I'm not great with tools but assembly was pretty simple and took 45 minutes. I recommend watch YouTube videos on this exact procedure. There are plenty and it did help.Ater assembly there were 2 large lock washers left over and upon watching the video, he explained that there were no instructions on what to do with the left over lock washers, but we both assumed they were for the wheels. I guessed about how much to tighten the wheel nuts so the wheel will turn and not have the nut unwind. 1st attempt nut came off. 2nd was a little too tight, but the wheel turns somewhat.I was amazed at how it did raking up the dead moss. Extremely time saving and easy to work with. I am happy with this purchase. Built in the US and is sturdy. It should last several seasons.

Very easy to assemble. You will have to cut off one bolt to bolt on the Tow Bars on the Right Side Front. Other than that, no issues at all. I pulled it behind my Textron Stampede and ran my back pasture first with a 50# bad of Play Sand strapped on. There is no crab grass on that pasture and last year it did not grow very well at all. The photo on the left is why. All that came from an approx.. 10 by 15 area.My Front Pasture due to an irrigation issue on my neighbors ranch had alot of crab grass grow in it late in the summer, The photo on the right is from that front pasture. It removed almost all of the long arms of the crab grass and left very nice water rows.It worked so well on my back pasture it would take me 3 or 4 straight days to clean by hand so I ordered a lawn sweeper to speed things up. I wont put my Steers on it until it greens up a bit. All in all I would recommend this to anyone that does not want to buy a full blown harrier drag. My neighbors thought it was cute and a waste of money..... He's using it to do his back pasture today after seeing how well is did. On a straight lawn with pop-ups I would not use the weight. I did the front lawn behind my zero turn and it cost me 4 sprinklers so I speak of what I learned. This is a SOLID PRODUCT and worth the mild amount of money as compared to larger hard to handle and storage options.

It works very well. It does what is suppose to do.

Bent the first time I used it. I’ll reinforce it. Just not well built. Does a fairly good though.

This was not my first choice for a tow behind dethatcher. I was look at these three brands Craftsman, Agri-Fab, and Brinly Hardy 48-inch Dethachers. The Agri-fab and Craftsman dethatcher need to add weight(two cement blocks) to work proper and for that reason I chose not go with those two brands. The Brinly DT-48H Tow Behind Dethatcher(built in the USA!!!!!) was the only Tow Dethatcher where no added weight is needed to work properly. The assembly was not too bad but if you have no experience with assembling large mechanical items I would not recommend this product( for a novice, the assembly can be challenge). After the assembly, the DT-48H is solidly built it will not fall apart( make sure to tighten all those nuts)and will last a long time. Before you take this lawn dethatcher on your lawn you must place the dethatcher(connected to lawn tractor) on a flat surface to perform a towing arm level check. Once that is done you are really to begin dethatching your lawn. I could not believe the amount of dead grass, moss, and other organic material that was coming up. My grass looks a lot better for it. If you are in the market for an excellent tow behind dethatcher look no further and get the Brinly DT-48H. What a great buy!!!!!! One last thing, watch the package of this item. My box was open the three plastic ring to keep the box together were to big and did not do their job. I was missing a total of four parts. I called Brinly customer service(do not call Amazon for missing parts) told the operate what parts was missing and two days later my missing parts were at my door(Fedex delivery).

works good on large lawns

Well made easy to assemble good value wish I had purchased the bigger model