Lawn aerators
YEELOR YLUS1173
The only item here that publishes a working width — and it is a dethatching rake rather than an aerator.
What the thing really is
A rake.
It appears on this shelf because sellers file dethatching and aerating under
the same heading, and this page will not do the same.
Dethatching means dragging dead stems, moss and clippings out of the mat
that builds up between the green grass and the soil. It happens at the
surface.
Aerating means making holes in the soil underneath, so water and air reach
the roots.
They are different jobs with different tools, they are both done in early
spring, and the sensible order is thatch first: there is no point opening the
soil under a layer that will keep the water from getting there anyway.
The numbers, which are the best on this shelf
43.2 cm head — the only working width published by any of these six
products.
21 pairs of manganese spring-steel tines.
167.6 cm maximum handle length, from a segmented stainless shaft.
1.1 kg all in.
That is a genuinely specified tool on a shelf where four of six publish nothing
measurable, and it is worth saying so.
Spring steel, and why it matters on a rake
A dethatching tine catches, loads, and lets go, several times a second.
Mild steel bends and stays bent; after one season a mild-steel rake is a row of
tines pointing in slightly different directions, and it stops cutting into the
mat. Spring steel takes the same load and returns.
The listing also names a double-screw head fixing rather than a single screw —
which is the joint that fails on cheap rakes, because all the pulling load goes
through it.
The claim this page does not accept
“Improves cleaning efficiency by up to 45 %.”
Against what, measured how, the listing does not say. It is attached to the
hook shape of the tines.
It is reported here because it was published, and it is not treated as a fact.
The honest downside of a wide head
43 cm is wide for a hand rake, and in thick thatch that is not purely good.
A dethatching rake is pulled, hard, and the effort scales with how many tines
are engaged. A 43 cm head with 21 pairs of tines loaded into dense matted grass
is heavy work, and most people end up taking narrower bites rather than full
passes.
At 1.1 kg the tool is not the problem. The lawn is.
Availability
From 37 € to 40 €, that being the spread across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Beyond the euro zone, the American and British Amazon stores price it in their own currencies, which the spread above sets aside.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
