PTO driven lawn sweeper?

[TCowner]

Kevin, I just looked and Turfmaster has their own website that shows a 60" pull type and three point hitch (both pto driven) sweeper.

 

[kevincook]

Thanks TCowner,

That is the type of sweeper I was looking for. The price is pretty steep though. I think what I remember seeing is essentially a European version of the Turfmaster Sweep-All.

Turfmaster

I'll keep looking for the other make I thought I saw.


Thanks,
Kevin

 

[dougzdog]

what is their price? i didnt see any on the website.

doug

 

[kevincook]

This site has a price of $4375.

Edney

Agri-Metal has a product called Tuff Vac 4000 that uses a sweeper and apparently a vacuum combination. The sweeper can be replaced with metal blades for dethatching and verticutting. I don't know the price yet but I'm sure it is very high. Agri-Metal

 

[kevincook]

I received some information in the mail yesterday about the Turfmaster 4000. The PTO version is about $12,000. I could just about buy a new ZD with a grass catcher for that.

Maybe I should just hand rakes to the kids /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Kevin

 

[Mosey]

I looked and looked for a lawn sweeper for a CUT a couple years ago and couldn't come up with anything either. I don't even care if it's PTO driven or wheel driven like the pull behinds for lawn tractors. I ended up getting a 42" pull behind (which was the biggest I could find) at Home Depot and use my Craftsman lawn tractor to clean up the parts of the yard that are real thick and just let the grass lay in the rest of the yard (my yard is 3 1/2 acres, so I don't have time to do it all). The pull behind wheel driven type work good and are fairly cheap (I only paid about $200 for mine on sale), so if someone would make one just like the one I have in a 6' width it would be great for a CUT, but no one makes them that big.

 

[kevincook]

I also have a 42" sweeper and 4 acres of lawn......it just looks ridiculous towing the sweeper behind my L3010 /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Maybe we should design and Build some 72" models????

 

[Mosey]

I've thought about taking 2 3' ones and hooking them together. But, there would be a gap in the center and I haven't figured out how to get around that. The other problem with the current ones is that they don't hold very much. I spend as much time going to dump it as I do filling it. It's really bad in the fall with leaves, it fills up really fast.

 

[homerjer]

Any luck ever finding a 72" or larger pto sweeper?

 

[redleicester]

Kubota make them, as do JD and NH, or there's Wessex / Sisis / Major and so on.