SURF RAKE Sand Cleaning Applications

The SURF RAKE line of sand cleaners is the most versatile beach cleaning machinery on the market.

This is because SURF RAKE uses patented tine raking technology that can instantly adapt to all kinds of beach debris, sand conditions, debris volumes, and cleaning windows to remove all kinds of unwanted material from sand. Review the SURF RAKE’s ability to handle common, proven cleaning applications by choosing from the following:

How Is the SURF RAKE Used?

LITTER COLLECTION

Clear litter from large turf areas fast; including fields, picnic areas, and ball fields.

SEAWEED

Remove post-event debris across grass, soil, and paved areas for large-scale outdoor events.

SARGASSUM

Collect wind-blown litter from slopes and compacted fill to stay compliant.

STONE & ROCK

Remove roadside litter quickly from the safety of a tractor.

SHELL

Collect debris from the grassy areas surrounding airports to ensure safefy.

DEAD FISH

Pick litter from grass, soil, and paved areas after the game.

HURRICANE & DISASTER CLEANUP

Remove roadside litter quickly from the safety of a tractor.

OIL SPILL CLEANUP

Collect debris from the grassy areas surrounding airports to ensure safefy.

ENCROACHING GRASS

Pick litter from grass, soil, and paved areas after the game.

CORAL FRAGMENTS

Remove roadside litter quickly from the safety of a tractor.

GOOSE DROPPINGS

Collect debris from the grassy areas surrounding airports to ensure safefy.

INFIELD STONE REMOVAL

Pick litter from grass, soil, and paved areas after the game.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — one machine. Every application on this page runs on the same core tine-and-conveyor system: tines lift debris off the sand, the perforated S-belt conveyor returns clean sand to the beach, and the hopper collects what’s removed. No separate attachments are required for the vast majority of use cases — operators adjust tine depth and pass speed between jobs, not equipment.

It’s built around three: litter, seaweed/sargassum, and stone/shell removal — the highest-volume, most frequent problems beach operators face in terms of size, characteristics, and frequency. That same tine-and-conveyor mechanism happens to be effective on a wider range of debris beyond that core, which is why the additional applications on this page exist.

In most cases, yes, in a single pass. The SURF RAKE doesn’t require reconfiguration to switch between debris types — it’s built to handle mixed loads, which is the normal condition on most working beaches.

That being said, it can be finely-tuned for different debris types by making slight operation adjustments– for example: increasing the conveyor speed and increasing tine cleaning depth to remove tiny debris like small stones or plastics. Or slowing the conveyor speed and raising the moldboard to remove heavy mounds of sargassum.

Typically customers buy the SURF RAKE for more regular cleaning situations and then are relieved to find it adapts to less-common, ‘one-off’ cleanup situations when needed. That said, if one of these is your main or most frequent problem the SURF RAKE could likely be the tool you need with the added benefit of being able to handle your other beach and grounds cleaning needs. Contact us to confirm suitability for your needs, and we’ll tell you directly whether it fits or whether something else solves your problem better.

All SURF RAKE models share the same tine-and-This list covers the most common situations we see, not every possible one. If you don’t see your problem here, contact us directly — we’ll tell you honestly whether the SURF RAKE is a fit.

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