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Well, that's just fine and dandy but you gotta get them into a pile first. oke:

 

Well, that's just fine and dandy but you gotta get them into a pile first. oke:

That's what the rake's for.

 

I didnt have to lift a rake this year.....My JD STX38 has the high lift blades and blows them to the side real nice.....You do have to keep after them and do it every few days.....A lot of them got ground up and what was left ended up in the garden where I tilled it in with a couple of loads of horse manure.......

 

You guys couldn't possibly have as many leaves as I do, most of my property is covered in trees.

 

Get yourself one of these, mount it to your tractor and plow the leaves of your lawn.

Rittenhouse | JRCO Leaf Blade Plow

 

I've never seen one of those before,neat.

 

Wow! That's a rake on steroids!

 

Maybe now I figured out why I had kids?

 

If your kids are like my 4, it would've been cheaper to have a landscaper

I use a 10 hp wheeled blower, hand held blower, and lawn sweeper and rake just to get into bushes
Lots of pine needle's, but no neighbor's so I can blow 99% into the woods.

 

Ya I think there neat, never used one, back when I worked for the landscaper we would plow leaves with the big mowers once you got the leaves to build up in-between the 2 front caster wheels of it you could push quite a big pile of leaves. The mower that pushed the most was the widest and tallest. First year I worked for them I used the 3 wheeler that I have now to push leaves.

 

Maybe now I figured out why I had kids?

:bigrofl:

 

Maybe now I figured out why I had kids?

:rofl2:

 

Currently I use my electric blower for all the area I can't get the tractor in and blow them to where I can chop them up with the tractor a pick up with the sweeper.

Would like a back pack blower and a cyclone rake (or something similar)

 

Early on I just mulch them with the mower, but you'd have gotten a chuckle earlier this week, I was out in the dark [where I usually am anyway:rolleyes:] shortly after 6am Tues raking the driveway and front down to the street. The city makes one pass around the neighborhoods to pick up leaves that would otherwise plug the storm drains. So we are allowed to move "our" leaves to the curb where the city windrows them and picks up the windrows with their loader mounted snow blower into the city trucks and hauls them to their HUGE mulch pile and Tuesday was the day for our street......
Peter

 

Early on I just mulch them with the mower, but you'd have gotten a chuckle earlier this week, I was out in the dark [where I usually am anyway:rolleyes:] shortly after 6am Tues raking the driveway and front down to the street. The city makes one pass around the neighborhoods to pick up leaves that would otherwise plug the storm drains. So we are allowed to move "our" leaves to the curb where the city windrows them and picks up the windrows with their loader mounted snow blower into the city trucks and hauls them to their HUGE mulch pile and Tuesday was the day for our street......
Peter

So you like raking in the dark? Did ya get all of em?

 

Heck no, but any the city hauls is less I gotta haul,:thumbs: funny thing is we have NO trees in our front door yard, but I'd swear we end up with more of our neighbors' leaves than they all do......:wtf:

 

I know they make two stroke powered backpack leaf blowers but do they make a backpack vacuum shredder? Would be perfect for cleaning up the leaves around the pool area.

We were out today and stacked the firewood we had loaded on the trailer and then I put the blower head on the weed trimmer and started blowing leaves into piles. I got one pile outside the pool fence done and tried to start on the pool area inside the fence and what a pain in the arse.

 

You could shop-vac them & carry them all 5 gal @ a time.

 

This is what I use :thumbs:

 

I'll be back later with some pics...

 

This is what I use :thumbs:

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Brian,
Does the lawn sweeper work pretty good? I thought about one for the yard but it still doesn't solve the dilemma for the pool area.

 

Brian,
Does the lawn sweeper work pretty good? I thought about one for the yard but it still doesn't solve the dilemma for the pool area.

Yeah, There is an adjustment for how low you want the sweeper to go and if I set it on low it Picks up 98% of the leaves.
The only problem is it fills up pretty quick.... It is still alot better than raking LOL

 

Yeah, There is an adjustment for how low you want the sweeper to go and if I set it on low it Picks up 98% of the leaves.
The only problem is it fills up pretty quick.... It is still alot better than raking LOL

Might have to see about going out and getting one of these. I hate raking and the blower gets annoying.

 

The best part is you get seat time! :dancingbanana:

 

Yea I use the lawn sweeper also, and i dump most of the leaves into the garden then till them in and they are gone by spring