I do trail cleaning for mountain bike trails. It seems that I get a few days use before the cheap red steel tined rakes from Ace Hardware have taken on a new and not helpful shape. The chrome spring also has sprung. Seems I had some other rake with black tines that did not do so swell either. Anyone find any rakes that handle some work? Note that I am not a burly guy so in theory I am not overloading the rakes. Yard raking does not see me abusing or deforming a rake the same way trail clearing does. Not interested in wide rakes either. I tried a few different wide plastic tined rakes and they did not work well. Too wide to start with. I do not recall what other reasons I did not like the plastic rakes. I do not recall tearing up rakes 45 years ago when I raked leaves for money. On the other hand rakes were not made in China when I was a child.