im curious to see how well the 54 inch deck on my new bx does with the leaves this year, my old ingersoll could barely handle it. Thanks for everyones input, definitely look into a cyclone rake, ive offered to pay my wifes cousins to do it for me, but those boys get about 1/4 the way thru and give up haha. love those trees when its hot out, but sure do hate the clean up! Hmm... Maybe ill fashion up a monster scoop attachment for my loader, and just scoop em off... give me another excuse to put hours on that new BX!