new use for an old dump rake?

i opened my mouth and got another job, like i really needed one lol, this one is cleaning up a large gently sloped hilside, it had about 6 inches to a foot of pine needles, on it, ive been working on it with a chainsaw as one of the wanna be foresters did a thinning project in the area i say wanna be as i used to do this too before i got so busted up, he left all his stumps 8 to 12 inches out of the ground, a no, no, also his equipment, studly new dodge pickup nice new gooseneck trailer about 2 sizes too large for the truck new skid steere with a grapple rake, and... thats it other than 2 gentlmen from "south of here" with chainsaws, no chipper, no log truck so he can sell the marketable timber to the 4 sawmills in the area, no dump truck to haul off the chipps which he can also sell, he has the brush which includes the marketable timber cut into 4 foot lenghts piled along the road 8 feet high for 800 yds, hmm.. but what this is about is the needles im thinking about using a old horse drawn dump rake behind a tractor the rake is sitting on the neighbors place complete with modifies hitch for a tractor i think he was using it into the late 70's , and i think with a little tinkering i can get it going it looks in decent shape for its age, wonder if it will have enough pressure to pull the needles, anybody tried it? i dont want to use my landscape rake as that will remove everything and leave large dirt scars and a big mess, and i got to reseed this area too

Probably only know if you try. I"d be concerned about hooking into the stumps, etc.

I'm sure the stumps will be a problem. I have had good luck using a 5 wheel hay rake for that kind of cleanup.
If you know someone with rasburies - they may want the pine needles for mulch.

got a place in the county that had a large tub grinder, [ 500 hp] they grind them up add topsoil and sell it this county had its whole north end in deep conifer forest, including a tourist resort so they got plenty of em, at least they did a 100,000 acre fire last year, and one currently burning around 43,000 kind of put a dent in it

If you could find an old corn weeder - adapt a horse drawn unit or be lucky and find a 3ph unit - that might work. Tines are farther apart than the landscape rake; maybe a little closer together than the dump rake that I remember. Used the one I have to rake pine straw about 20 years ago.