Ames Thatching Rake does the job of two rakes in one with the elegance of your height and strength as an advantage.
Ames Thatching Rake is adjustable and makes an effective cut from both pulling as well as pushing through your lawn.
The biggest problem with thatch is that it accumulates in between the grass blades in such a layer of dead and rotten material that it becomes impossible for your grass roots to breath.
Suffocating the roots by impeding the entry of both oxygen and water alike, thatch needs to be dealt with on an annual basis.
Most thatching rakes are comb like in design and used more traditionally as a way to remove thatch from the soil surface, but the stoking action is tiring and the position your body needs to stay in to get a good swath at the thatch is astonishingly painful.
Thatching can be the job of champions, done by hand with a willpower and the joy of knowing that your body is doing a job that is both professional as well as rewarding with added muscle tone and stamina.
Who needs to go to the gym to lose a few pounds when they can get a great workout with a simple thatching rake?
So what makes the Ames thatching rake so different from the regular comb design?
Stroke. The stroke is energy efficient and uses your muscles in a more productive way that is healthy for the body as well as emotionally empowering.
Ames thatching rake gives the ideal stroke for your height and strength, making sure that the blades do all of the work backward and forward for the size of the wielder.
Ames thatching rake also has the advantage of being able to cut in, up and out of the thatch in a way that provokes the thatch to remove itself from the topsoil in an effective way.
Light weight, Ames thatching rake is also highly resistant to the kind of manual labor and stress applied to it during your seasonal thatching that includes bending of the blades.
Rocks and metals that are raked up along with the thatch can bend and brake most thatching rakes, giving Ames Thatching Rake an advantage of the competition, although it is not impervious to damage.
The more damage an Ames Thatching Rake takes, the more it comes back for more, making almost no difference in its performance until the day it hits something so hard that it breaks.
