Dr or Cyclone lawn vacuum

[oldballs]

Hey two bit....

.the CR will pick up most of the pine needles as well as most of the pine cones........I've done lots of that.....and it is better than using the Pine Needle rake ...in which you end up forking the needle pile into a trailer to haul them off.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[KennyG]

Mine isn't real efficient in picking up pine straw with the mower deck. It will pick them up but you have to go over it multiple times. Seems to be a limitation of the mower deck. The pickup tube will clean them up completely.

 

[two_bit_score]

Hey two bit....

.the CR will pick up most of the pine needles as well as most of the pine cones........I've done lots of that.....and it is better than using the Pine Needle rake ...in which you end up forking the needle pile into a trailer to haul them off.

Cheers,
Mike

Thanks Mike!

That is something Ive wondered for awhile.

Good pictures too!

 

[KJSBX]

I found the easiest way to get the leaves out of the ditch is a back pack blower. Then I blow them into the woods.

 

[Boss 302]

How is the cyclone at picking up acorns? I have spoke with a couple people that have yard vacs and they tell me that they don't do well in picking them up.

 

[KennyG]

How is the cyclone at picking up acorns? I have spoke with a couple people that have yard vacs and they tell me that they don't do well in picking them up.

Mine seems to do pretty well. I've got lots of oaks and the ground ends up clean under them.

 

[Boss 302]

Thanks Kenny, sounds like I need to check it out

 

[TerryR]

I found the easiest way to get the leaves out of the ditch is a back pack blower. Then I blow them into the woods.

I agree with you. However, in our case the side of the ditch towards the woods a bank 8 to 10 ft high, covered with various kinds of brush. So blowing the leave up the back is a trial. The last few times I used my leaf vac to collect them I used my backpack blower to put the leaves in a windrow on the road, and collected them from there with the vac.

Since then, I've found a solution that works better for me is to find a fit much younger man with a more serious backpack blower and hire him to blow the leaves into the woods. At 80 you find there's some tasks it just better to hire out.

 

[lacritz]

Have an Agrifab chip vac.
The chipper is useless. The vac works well. The deck adapter takes a bit to get setup correctly.
I have it on a zero turn and had to rig up support for hose.

I have a Sears craftman model which was made by Agifab. Chipper gets jammed often, when shut down to refuel can't restart twigs stuck in shute. I removed chipper shute so I don't even try. The hose often cracks, Duck tape!