Grass? Leaves?- Snow?

[oldballs]

What's a guy to do? I'm still mowing and sucking up leaves. Every time I think the summer/fall tractroring is done, it rains and is mild....about 50 deg today, going to about 60 deg with rain tomorrow.

The switch over to snow mode will have to be quick...unless it hardly snows like the past two winters. Mother Nature sure is fickle.

 

[LD48750]

I could do with a no snow winter.
This broken leg has messed up my seasonal transition BIG TIME.
Forget the leaves, they are just not going to get done this year.

 

[oldballs]

LD, it's funny (not) how one's life goes on even with a broken leg.........

Maybe by Spring, you'll hardly remember what all didn't get done......except it will probably be staring you in the face then too.

Darn it all. No snow ain't a bad idea either.

 

[LD48750]

LD, it's funny (not) how one's life goes on even with a broken leg.........

Maybe by Spring, you'll hardly remember what all didn't get done......except it will probably be staring you in the face then too.

Darn it all. No snow ain't a bad idea either.

Oh yes... Life has indeed continued without a thought about if I was ready or not.

I just look back & remember that things didn't get done when I was working and figure I lived through that & will live through this too.

 

[2ndhalf]

My mowing a raking are done for the year. I have leaves out there but they will blow away or feed my yard. I have raked twice.. not doing a third. I cheated though.. used a pull behind leaf sweaper... but everything is put away for the year.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

What's a guy to do? I'm still mowing and sucking up leaves. Every time I think the summer/fall tractroring is done, it rains and is mild....about 50 deg today, going to about 60 deg with rain tomorrow.

The switch over to snow mode will have to be quick...unless it hardly snows like the past two winters. Mother Nature sure is fickle.

I have a Husqvarna 54in mower in the garage to fight the great leaves war, it's been a tough battle which is not over, lots of leaves still on the trees in my area.

I also hooked the grader blade up to the 4320 and it's parked in the barn ready to go. I actually got bored today and worked the gravel section of the driveway today lol. So I'm set for both.

Also I chop my leaves up, I don't collect them, I did last year but only to use it as bedding in the chicken coop.

 

[Thomas]

LD, it's funny (not) how one's life goes on even with a broken leg.........

Maybe by Spring, you'll hardly remember what all didn't get done......except it will probably be staring you in the face then too.

Darn it all. No snow ain't a bad idea either.

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Keep eye on the weather channel plan 3 or 4 days head,in mean time mow or leaf duties until,getting the little things done before old man winter comes knocking....its never ending cycle.

 

[check]

LD, it's funny (not) how one's life goes on even with a broken leg......... Maybe by Spring, you'll hardly remember what all didn't get done......except it will probably be staring you in the face then too. Darn it all. No snow ain't a bad idea either.

We need snow up at the cottage, as the local economy was devastated by last year's mild winter. When you don't live up there, you don't realize how many people in the surrounding small towns depend upon the snowmobilers coming up in the winter and patronizing the local businesses.

 

[Budweiser John]

We are awash in mud here in central Michigan, time to be done and time for a really hard freeze.
Aside from puttering around the farmstead, ground is too wet to fall chisel plow and getting into the woods is an exercise in axel deep mud.
Oh well, good excuse to organize the work shop and may be make a trip to the local scrap yard.

B John

 

[Gary Fowler]

I am not messing with leaves till they all fall to the ground. Right now it is a toss up as to whether or not leaves will fall. Due to summer drought, many trees are already nearly bare because they started shedding leave in August/September while other like sweetgum are pretty much fully leafed out. I did take the mower and consolidate the falling pine needles around all my pines last week. I don't like them getting on the grass thick because they kill the grass, so I just piled them up around the tree trunks.
IF I gather leaves it will just be for compost in my garden, otherwise I shred them with the mower and feed them back into the lawn. What I really hate is folks that burn (and that is being generous) leaves. Most they just create a lot of smoke while doing it. I would suggest that it is much better to shred them into bits and let them compost than smoking up the neighborhood at least for those with acreage enough to have a large composting area. Rotted leaves are excellent compost for gardens and flower beds and great for the lawn as well.

 

[bigtiller]

I've got 6 big trees and several new trees on 4 acres. I can see 2 more trees a quarter mile north and another dozen half a mile to the south. East and west there are trees a mile away each direction.

It's kind of a windy place here so the leaves disappear before I can get the rake out.

 

[oldballs]

Bigtiller, you are a lucky guy. Aside from the beauty of the trees, I'm been known to mumble something about cutting down all of them.
Forty year old Sycamores, Walnuts, Soft Maples, Red Oaks,,,,,,,,Pine cones, Pine needles, Walnuts, surface roots, leaves, storm branches, sticks, clogged gutters, Bag Worms etc.

I did cut down a 60 year old Cottonwood that was starting to get in the septic system. Really hated to do that because it was a nice shade tree out back. Rants over.???....

 

[jones6780]

We are having the longest dry spell in over a hundred years. Over 50 days of no rain. Got trees dying from lack of water. Finally see some relief tonight or tomorrow.

 

[TheMan419]

We usually have a big wind that blows all the leaves off our property. I try to keep the grass mowed down low at the end of the season so the leaves blow off our property into the woods.

We have one tree that is dead and will have to be removed. It is a very old tree and I am sad that it is gone.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

HOPEFULLY, this will be the last time chopping leaves, you can still see the line on my yard and the neighbors from when I chopped my leaves last week and they didn't lol. The kicker is I still have 2 trees in the front yard that still has leaves.

 

[plowhog]

Broke, how does that Husqvarna work for you? I have been looking at the "GS" and "GT" models. With or without power suction unit. I bag LOTS of leaves so I am looking at the largest bag system there is, which I believe is 9 bushels. Seems like the power suction is worth the cost for me since I have so many leaves.

I finally decided on a L6060 tractor after much hand-wringing. The mower selection at times seems even more difficult. Would appreciate any feedback on this or other models.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Broke, how does that Husqvarna work for you? I have been looking at the "GS" and "GT" models. With or without power suction unit. I bag LOTS of leaves so I am looking at the largest bag system there is, which I believe is 9 bushels. Seems like the power suction is worth the cost for me since I have so many leaves.

I finally decided on a L6060 tractor after much hand-wringing. The mower selection at times seems even more difficult. Would appreciate any feedback on this or other models.

Well I'm bias on the garden tractors, when I was in HS my divorced mother needed a lawn mower and wanted to buy new, so after lots of research I bought a ariens lawn mower for her from HD, it compared to the craftsman but a fraction of the cost.

It's been 5 or 6 seasons now and that 42in 20hp Kohler is still mowing strong, I was the primary user and used that mower to blaze and upkeep trails for the quad, used that mower like a bush hog mowing 4-5ft brush blazing new trails when I lived with her.

After looking for parts I found out that that mower was made by Husqvarna but was the same design as the old craftmans, when I was looking for a mower for my own house this past summer it just happened I found a good deal on a 25hp 54in Husqvarna with 235h on it. I have 1/2 a season under my belt on that mower but it's been a good mower. I would only prefer the foot pedals over the hand knob on the fender, not sure what it's called. But can't complain lol.

I have had a lot of luck with Husqvarna products, my mower has a 25hp B&S. I prefer the Kohler over B&S.

Only thing I have to compare it to is a 445 JD garden tractor my dad bought new in 1999 and has 1005h on it now. I have a ton of hours on that tractor, it's fantastic but was 9X what I paid for mine lol.

Mine is a GTH2454T and I have only cut leaves and grass with mine but it moves and controls is very similar to the Arians at HD.