Jenlis Weed Raker Heavy Duty Aluminum Maintenance Tool, Lake Aquatic Landscaping Weed Removal Rake for Shoreline or Beach, Light Weight

Have a small pond (1/2 acre+) that has not been cleaned in a number of years and is not looking healthy with surface floating algae, live and dead cattails, and reed grass. The bottom of the pond has a significant layer of algae. Bought the Weed Rake and the WeedRazer Express to address the cleanup.Product Description: The Weed Rake is lightweight, easy to assemble, comes with attached 25' of floating poly rope and with the float attachments, for this Woman, is easy to cast. I tied a bowline loop at the end of the line to step on so as not to launch the whole works into the pond. The rake tines are very sharp and do a very good job of cutting aquatic vegetation*. I like the ability to fold the front of the rake for easier storage.Performance-Surface Raking: My initial project objective was to remove the floating surface algae. I attached the floats with the provided Velcro straps, following the instructions in the Product Manual. With about 2-dozen casts, I was able to make fairly rapid progress pulling the floating algae masses to shore. Once I pulled the mass on land, the rake tines were fairly easy to clean by shaking the rake forward and back a few times and it was ready for another toss.I then concentrated my efforts on the algae floating in the vegetation near the edges of the pond, and this is where to performance changed. After about half-a-dozen casts and pulling the rake back through the vegetation consisting of cattails and reed grass, one of the Velcro straps holding a float, broke and is lost somewhere in the pond.My examination of the other three straps shows significant wear. I believe this was caused by trying to rake the floating algae from the surface vegetation and the friction caused by raking the vegetation over the sharpened tines caused the wear and subsequent failure of the strap.Performance-Sub-Surface Raking: As seen in the company videos, the rake does a very good job of cutting some of the vegetation, i.e. in this case, cattails. *However, the Weed Rake does not work very well on tall green reed grass. To the contrary, it does rake out the "dead" reed grass with relative ease. To address the bottom algae, after each cast I allowed the rake to sink and made short firm pulls on the rope. The rake cut through the algae and formed rolls of the gunk once I pulled it into shallow water. This was a bit more difficult to remove from the tines, but flopping the rake over and shaking the rake worked to dislodge the worst of the mess. Repeated casts over the same area resulted in the rake coming back fairly clean and I take that as most of the algae removed.Results: After working the same area from opposite sides of the pond, I noticed the bottom of the area where I started is free of vegetation and the water clarity noticeably clearer. I can actually see the bottom, where I could not before I started this project. With the exception noted about the straps, I am very satisfied with the product and would recommend it to others.Support: I contacted the company asking if only the Velcro straps are available as replacements. Since the equipment is new, I see no sense in buying their complete Rake Hardware Kit, just for the straps. I am awaiting their response.

The rake worked very well to remove several kinds of weeds along our lakeshore. It worked effectively with only the long handle as well as when thrown with the rope and floats. The tines are heavy duty enough to remove large roots. It's a good investment for keeping our lakeshore cleaned up. Recommend this rake.

Only thing that we didn’t like is the strap that holds the float things broke right away. We just put zip ties on instead. Not a deal breaker

Our nearby lake was recently cleaned up and now has plant growth for the first time many years. However that has now made it a challenge to swim off our dock and keep our boat lift area free of weeds. This tool worked very well to remove the weeds. Nothing real complicated about it. We just toss the rake out of the water and drag it back with the rope. The rake seems sturdy and should last a long time.

Worked better than expected. Made short work of all the debris around the docks.

Nice quality, easy to assemble. The tines are plastic so don't do much. Works good to use after the cutter and to pull in the Lilly pads you cut off. Doesn't do much for the weeds in the ground yet. Not worth the price. A landscape rake is half the price and works better

The spring release buttons are hard for me to operate, but I just turned 70 so maybe some things will not be hard for others. I had no difficulty using the rake, tossing it out and pulling it back really made removing weeds from our beachfront easy.

A robust rake with longer teeth than usual, we bought it to remove algae and weed from our lake, it works. The tether allows the rake to be thrown into the water and then it is strong enough to be hauled in together with its load of green weed.

Does exactly what it says and works very well

This rake works really well. I used to grab a mask and snorkel and dive down several times a summer to pull weeds out of the water at the end of our dock (about 5-6 feet of water). Now, using this device, I simply stand on the dock, loop the rope over a dock pole, toss the rake in the weedy areas at the end of the dock and further out, and pull the rope to bring the rake back—along with a load of weeds. The rake is well constructed, sturdy and seems durable (I’ve used it about 10 times so far). And it works well to rake natural debris off the sandy area at the water’s entrance. I’m very satisfied with this purchase.

The media could not be loaded. Rake works well on long enough weeds to grab on the teeth & they bundle together . It won't work too well on shorter weeds; less to grab on & go through the rake teeth.It is labour's intensive and you get tired of throwing after a while but it does a good job in pulling out lighlty rooted weed species. Throw, let it sink wait a few seconds then pull slowly and steadily. It is well made. Throwing with the float foam works for long stringy floating weeds.

The product worked great and was easy to assemble. For our needs, we ended up wiring a piece of pool noodle across the top of it so that it would float across the water and not sink. Worked like a charm.

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