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Middle Tennessee--mostly I see zero turns and residential riding lawn mowers. I think the advantages of standers are that commercial mowers can squeeze more of them onto a trailer to run larger crews and supposedly standers have lower centers of gravity when it comes to hills. And they don't...

I haven't been able to use my grapple without thinking about picking up a #2 pencil lately.

Which sweeper do you have? Looking at the new ones for sale today, the user ratings vary a lot.

My Dad had an International Cub Cadet 106 with a belly mower that was pretty heavy, but probably not as heavy as the belly mower on today's subcompact tractors. I never liked putting that thing back on despite it being made about as easy as it gets to install and reinstall. After getting a...

Pull behind lawn sweepers and vacuums used to be more popular, but IMPO, I couldn't see buying one today when mulching decks/blades take care of normal leaf accumulations as well as chop up the grass clippings every week. Trying to pick up sticks would be rough on the bristle brush.

Must be talking about a giant chubby pencil from kindergarten. Still waiting to see someone pick up a standard No. 2 pencil with a grapple.

Unless you really have a lot of limbs or big limbs to deal with, using a rake plus a cart or wheelbarrow is a very practical option that doesn't tear up your yard.

That could easily happen. If your yard is perfectly flat, it might work to some degree. If your yard pitches and rolls, you'll probably wish you had just raked them the normal way and put up with the ones that get crushed into your turf. If your limbs are big enough and you have enough of...

If your landscape rake is reversible, you could try pushing them into a pile in reverse, but there isn't a good answer that I know of.

I'd be extremely impressed to witness anyone pickup up a pencil with a grapple.

I have a tooth bar on my bucket. I'd rather use a landscape rake instead for this, but it's not going to get the bits and pieces that you need to get up in order to mow your yard.