Fall clean up

[MossRoad]

Why do you vacuum or even rake leaves? I've always just chopped them up with the lawn mower. Best if you plug off the discharge or have a designed mulching mower, but when I mowed the 5 acres of church property with GOBS of oak trees on it, I just discharge everything to the inside as I made rounds. When the mower started to chug a bit, I turned it around the other way, discharging outwards.

ModernLeviticus 42:3 says: "Thou shalt not rake or vacuum leaves."

Ralph

There are so many leaves that the chopped leaves smother the lawn.

 

[MossRoad]

This is something a made some years back and it turned out to be one of my favorite attachments. It's from a steiner.

Is that the same hydraulic motor that's on the PT finish mower?

 

[coolconnection]

MossRoad that is the same motor. I used to have some videos on here under 'converting a leaf blower' but they don't seem to work anymore. That blower is a great tool for fall leaves. Getting ready to hook it up soon to blow the cherry and maples leaves back. I got the blower really cheap on an online auction and it was in really good condition. With that hydraulic motor on there it is faster than it was on the steiner and sounds like a jet engine.

 

[KennyG]

There are so many leaves that the chopped leaves smother the lawn.

Got that right. And if I don't keep after them, they get so deep I have to use the pickup hose since trying to run the mower (with cyclone rake) through 8 inches of leaves doesn't work.

 

[MossRoad]

MossRoad that is the same motor. I used to have some videos on here under 'converting a leaf blower' but they don't seem to work anymore. That blower is a great tool for fall leaves. Getting ready to hook it up soon to blow the cherry and maples leaves back. I got the blower really cheap on an online auction and it was in really good condition. With that hydraulic motor on there it is faster than it was on the steiner and sounds like a jet engine.

I'll bet it does! :laughing:

I still can't justify the cost of a leaf blower (or snow blower, for that matter) for our needs. I used to have a hand-held leaf blower that was good for flower beds and blowing off the Power Trac. The plastic impeller wore out and there are no replacement parts. I might get one next year. Probably a back-pack model.

As I've mentioned, the tow-behind sweeper three-four times a fall does good enough for our needs. Lots of trips to dump it, though. Sometimes the leaves are so thick I get maybe 20' before it fills up! But that's only in the heavy spot in the back near the woods. I can deal with that.

 

[woodlandfarms]

We have Big Leaf Maples.. And they mean big leaf. 12 to 20" each leaf. Lawn is a gonner in the fall.

 

[coolconnection]

We have Big Leaf Maples.. And they mean big leaf. 12 to 20" each leaf. Lawn is a gonner in the fall.

I would love to see a picture of those. The biggest I have are 5 to 6 inches across. I could imagine the leaf storm my blower to could to with those.

 

[woodlandfarms]

What is messed up is when one dries up in the tree in the fall (does not fall) and then through the winter comes down wet and flat on your windsield.

The maple trees tend to not have much grass around them (or it is late coming up) as we do not broom the "lawn"