Leaf Vacuum

[WinterDeere]

Unless you have pine needles or oak leaves just mulch them in. In peak fall I run around with the mower every 2 days. A quick mulch then do a really good one as a last mow. In spring you wouldnt even know.

Depends on density. I get away with "mulching in" the walnuts leaves, who drop their leaves early in the season when it's still dry, and leaf load isn't that bad. Even the oaks, who drop their leaves so slowly from fall into spring, can be mulched in with good Gator style blades.

But the enormous silver maples that line our rear property line? Forget it!!! I'm working leaves that are damn near knee deep for a few weeks each fall, from those damn trees. Even mulched-in, the leaf debris would be deeper than the grass is tall.

 

[oldnslo]

I rake the leaves into piles then grab them with my homemade thumb type grapple and haul them off to dumping area. Getting older so trying to work smarter not harder plus it gives me more seat time.

 

[ultrarunner]

I also have an Echo PB-9010T backpack blower that will blow leaves into the next county. I can quickly blow leaves out of sheds, bushes, etc. then sweep them up.
We've come a long way from the 1950's when we raked them up with a wooden rake onto an old bedsheet. View attachment 4175859View attachment 4176403

May be going back to the rake?

Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where.

Many cities and a few states are banning gas-powered leaf blowers due to pollution, noise and health risk concerns. They've gotten some unlikely help.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

May be going back to the rake?

Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where.

Many cities and a few states are banning gas-powered leaf blowers due to pollution, noise and health risk concerns. They've gotten some unlikely help.

www.usatoday.com

Not me. I'll remove the muffler & use a lower oil/gas ratio making that baby SMOKE while I blow leaves with a fat cigar going!