New leaf sweeper for your tractor

[woodlandfarms]

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Meet Murray, Your Leaf-Collecting Best Friend - There, I Fixed It - Redneck Repairs

Carl

 

[ragkar]

This year I've been using a 40 inch leaf sweeper pulled by my lawn tractor to collect my leaves. But doing that results in about ten smaller piles as you have to make separate stacks since you can't drive your mower into a leaf pile. then I use my jd tractor with front snow plow to push the stacks together. The plow has a rubber cutting edge which is why it doesn't tear up the lawn.
This guy has invented a cheap alternate to my rubber edge snow plow.
By the way my leaf pile is about six cubic yards and takes me a morning to gather. formerly it took three days to blow, rake, drag the leaves.

 

[wolc123]

I do the same thing with a little snowplow on my Farmall cub and a 40" sweeper behind my riding lawn mower. I have a "rough" area of a couple acres behind my manicured lawn (about 1 acre) where I dump the sweeper by pulling the rope, never slowing down with the rider. I use the plow to push up a leaf pile back there on the rough. I let that pile rot over the winter, mixing in some wood ash from my woodstove to make a great, neutral-ph compost for the garden in the spring (the ash-base, cancels out the acid from the rotting leaves). That 40" sweeper cost me $20 at a garage sale and it worked great for the last 10 years after I adjusted it properly. The snowplow I made up from junk I found in the weeds behind my dads farm, took about 2 hours to make from free materials. These (2) tools have made leaf collection something I really look forward to each fall. My girls (7 an 8) have a ball in that big pile when I push it up.