When I drag the elodea and entangled FA from our pond, I use a heavy 5' rake I've made from 1 1/2" aluminum square tubing with 8" bolts for teeth. I attach a repurposed rock climbing line to the handle, run it through a redirect block hung form a tree on shore, and loop it on the hitch of my tractor or quad. I set the rake from my aluminum boat.
The wad of vegetation that comes in with each drag weighs in excess of several hundred pounds. The most difficult part of the whole job is getting that dragged load onto some sort of conveyance. Some of it is still in the water at shoreline. I lift it with a pitch fork or drag it with the back blade of the tractor. How are you getting it onto the yard glider?
I have piles of weeds the size of my wife's small SUV drying out here and there around the pond.
