Leaf cleanup- Saw this used

[asylum575]

I was watching a bunch of guys doing a lawn cleanup and noticed a new gizmo. There were two guys blowing leaves with 8-11hp blowers. The third guy was on a walkbehind with velky. He had a plywood board with a rubber door sweep on the bottom. It raised and lowered with the deck. He used it like a plow and pushed large quantities of leaves around.

Has anyone come up with something like this for a FEL.?

 

[amigauser]

Never heard of it but I just did a quick Google search and found some YouTube vids and these links.

My Leaf Plow

JRCO Inc, Heavy Duty Attachments - Leaf Blade Plow - AdvancedMower.com 877.428.1546:

even an old TBN thread
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/19151-leaf-collection-w-leaf-plow.html

 

[ragkar]

That is a neat idea. This morning I was pushing 15 cu yds of leaves, and I only have a 1/2 acre front lawn, using my fel. I only managed to plow the grass on one pass.
Since I have a toothbar, it might be a difficult design.

 

[asylum575]

Never heard of it but I just did a quick Google search and found some YouTube vids and these links.

My Leaf Plow

JRCO Inc, Heavy Duty Attachments - Leaf Blade Plow - AdvancedMower.com 877.428.1546:

even an old TBN thread
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/power-trac/19151-leaf-collection-w-leaf-plow.html

It was similar to the first one. It had a metal frame and plywood boards. The bottom had that rubber doorsweep material. Worked great with the leaves that were blown onto the road. Pushed them into a nice neat pile.

 

[Aggieville]

maybe a bit overkill, but why not i say?

 

[MossRoad]

I was watching a bunch of guys doing a lawn cleanup and noticed a new gizmo. There were two guys blowing leaves with 8-11hp blowers. The third guy was on a walkbehind with velky. He had a plywood board with a rubber door sweep on the bottom. It raised and lowered with the deck. He used it like a plow and pushed large quantities of leaves around.

Has anyone come up with something like this for a FEL.?

I used to use my snowplow or my FEL bucket to push the leaves into the woods after I windrowed them with my blower. Now, I just mow them up and use my lawn sweeper to brush up the chopped up leaves. Works great.

 

[Kevin M]

LandscaperPRO sells an all metal one (leaf plow) with rake like tines at the bottom , for walk behinds, they start at $495 plus a $119 mounting bar landscaperpro.com

 

[Stimw]

Do you mean something like this? I built this to use on my Branson FEL for pine needles. It works great for branch and bush trimming.
I made this out of stuff that I had laying around.

 

[Kevin M]

I was watching a bunch of guys doing a lawn cleanup and noticed a new gizmo. There were two guys blowing leaves with 8-11hp blowers. The third guy was on a walkbehind with velky. He had a plywood board with a rubber door sweep on the bottom. It raised and lowered with the deck. He used it like a plow and pushed large quantities of leaves around.

Has anyone come up with something like this for a FEL.?

The company I mentioned earlier is in Spring Valley NY on Chesnut Ridge road
You could adapt it to your loader bucket easily

 

[LBrown59]

My leaf dumpster is as big as all out doors in fact it is the out doors as I just leaf them lay .
This makes the forty third fall I've done it this way.
Couldn't be any quicker and easier.