Qualcast Lawnraker 32

Went to use my Lawnraker yesterday and it is dead,zilch nothing.

In all honesty I have not used it for probably 4 years but it was stored in a dry shed.

When it was working it was great did a fab job of taking out the thatch my only gripe is the bloody useless collection box wich was poorly designed, keeps falling off.

So I'm going to buy another lawnraker/scarifier but probably not Qualcast having read so many poor reviews wich is a pity because I have a Qualcast lawnmower and it's brilliant. Oh well time to shop around. ????

I inherited this machine from my late father. I've used it for years and find it is brilliant. It must be 20 years old now and has only one missing rake wire. That happened in the dim and distant past. If I had to criticize it at all I would say it could do with a bigger collection bin. My grass is in a rural location and weeds come up through it. The Lawnraker 32 deals with it superbly, though I do take care to remove any sticks I see laying in its path. I find that scarifying does just as much to improve the look of my grass as mowing does.

I don't understand why so many don't get on with this machine. Maybe some users are careless or just set the height too low. You can tell if it is getting a bit heavy going as you hear the motor slow down.

It has been reliable and folds up quite neatly. I'd buy another one as a spar if they were still made.

Total waste of money....I purchased the product in 2016 and the 1st time I used it, I managed about 6 feet of my lawn before it refused to pick anything up !! I used the height adjuster on the unit as per the instruction manual but all the tines on the scarifier bent out of shape. Spent a while bending them back but it still picked nothing up. I tried the rake unit but that was useless as well. It has been languishing in the back of my shed ever since. Just dug it out and decided to give it one more try but same result.

A piece of junk and £80 down the drain....live and learn but dont waste your hard earned cash on one of these machines.

Bought it on 2014 March 22nd. Used the first year, then used in 2016 once, brought it out of the shed this year 2017 and the motor burned out after 2 meters. I tried to get another motor but no joy. Bought from Argos, surely should get spare parts electric motors etc. Surely when you buy from a firm they should make sure to get spare parts for what they are selling.

Burnt out after 2nd time of use in 3 years. I bought it on 2014 march 22nd. I used first year, didn't used second year, third year gotnit out and burnt out. I have 3 small lawns and they are small. And I can't get the motor anywhere. And I have really tried. After 3 years parts for the machine should be still in the market.

The Qualcast Lawnraker 32 that I use is 11 years old and still working. It is very good at raking the moss out of the grass. It rakes out lots of moss and thatch but it is far too much for the flimsy collector to cope with. You will need to do the collecting either by hand or with a large leaf collecting mower. The height setting is important. If it is too low and the rake is labouring than the motor will burn out. The motor must be kept spinning at high speed and I find that I need to move the lawn raker backwards and forwards to achieve this. My lawnraker has just broken down. The switch handle has cracked and will not function correctly. There are lots of online suppliers who will sell you a new handle.

Overall I am generally pleased with my lawn raker and I accept its limitations. I do not know of a better one on the market. Final sentence - however hard I try the moss keeps coming back.

I bought this about two years ago but as my Black and Decker lawn rake was still servicable which IO had used for many years I used that last year. This year I got the Qualcast out. At first the flimsy tray kept falling off without collecting anything. Then after about 20 minutes of use, the holder for the tine spindle broke making the machine completely unusable. This machine is a total waste of money. Don't touch this or any other Qualcast product with a barge pole

Bought this from Argos despite the mixed reviews. This was a real mistake! As other reviewers have said, whilst it removed a huge amount of moss and dead grass from the lawn on its first use, it simply didn't pick it up. On the second use, the motor started working intermittently and has now died completely.

Absolutely terrible design and even worse quality. Awful!

I bought the Qualcast lawnraker/scarifier at the beginning of the May and took it out for the second time to do front lawn and within 15 minutes I also had big puffs of black smoke and a strong burning smell coming from it. I returned it to Homebase and managed to get a replacement but now too frightened to use the replacement in case the same thing happens. Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong????

I bought this about two years ago and this is the third season it has come out of the shed. It worked for twenty yards, changed pitch and slowed and emitted a puff of smoke and that was it! It is still in immaculate condition but only fit for the tip!

The two years it worked the grass collection was so awkward that I even preferred raking it up.