PTO driven lawn sweeper?

[kevincook]

I was sure I saw a link here a while back to a pto driven lawn sweeper. I think it was a European piece of equipment.

I would like to find a sweeper with a 72" width and "manly" enough to tow behind my L3010. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I've searched for about an hour and I can't come up with anything. Is anyone else's memory better than mine?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[DannyD]

Kevin,

do a search on "lawn sweeper". It brought up several posts on them. Had to go out to newer than 6 months to get it

 

[OkieG]

Kevin,
Trac-Vac is a popular brand name in lawn vacuums. They are the company I have kind of zeroed in on. A TBN search brings up several hits. This may not be the brand you're looking for, but other brands may be discussed, too. The Trac-Vac site is: http://www.trac-vac.com/. About half way down their list of models you'll find their PTO driven units.
I could sure use one of these to supply raw material for my compost experimenting. Let us know what you discover.

OkieG

 

[TCowner]

Kevin, THe MC Mathews Company (mathewscompany.com) has a product called the lawn genie that is a PTO driven lawn sweeper. The sell the product in widths from 48-72". I believe they have both pull type and three point hitch models.

 

[TCowner]

Kevin, I checked the MC Mathews website and the PTO sweeper I described in my earlier post is actually a mower. I thought it was a sweeper when I first looked at it.

I need to pay closer attention.

 

[kevincook]

Thanks for the link......that is close, but I swear I saw a link to a pto powered sweeper. The more I think about it the more I am sure it was from Europe. They always have neat stuff over there. Can any of our European members point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Kevin

Am I the only one interested in such a contraption? Or should somebody build these things?

 

[OkieG]

Kevin,
I guess I'm not sure what a lawn sweeper is. When I posted about Trac-Vac lawn vacuums, I thought we were talking about the same kind of implement, but maybe not. Is a lawn sweeper a bristle device? How does it sweep?

OkieG

 

[Junkman]

A lawn sweeper is a broom that has a bag attached to it to pick up the sweepings. I have never seen any that were suitable for a sub compact or compact tractor. Most are used with small garden tractors or riding lawn mowers. You could use a front mounted or rear mounted rotary broom that would windrow the debris, but you would have to keep moving it to one side and then pick it up when finished. This is what I do with my walk behind broom in the spring and fall to clean up dead leaves and twigs. They are available from the tractor manufactures as accessories or from independent companies such as York Modern or Sweepster Corporation & FFC Corporation Merged ....

 

[OkieG]

Thanks.

OkieG

 

[TCowner]

Kevin, I remember seeing a pto driven sweeper at the Minnesota State Fair last year. It is a smaller unit than the 72" you were looking for. I beleive it is only 48" wide. But it does sweep leaves, pine needles, debris into a collection cart behing the sweeper.

The company showing the sweeper is called Edney Distributing. THey have a web site (Edneyco.com/) and the product is listed under their turf equipment heading. The product is called a TurfMaster Sweep-all.

 

[TCowner]

Kevin, I just looked and Turfmaster has their own website that shows a 60" pull type and three point hitch (both pto driven) sweeper.

 

[kevincook]

Thanks TCowner,

That is the type of sweeper I was looking for. The price is pretty steep though. I think what I remember seeing is essentially a European version of the Turfmaster Sweep-All.

Turfmaster

I'll keep looking for the other make I thought I saw.


Thanks,
Kevin

 

[dougzdog]

what is their price? i didnt see any on the website.

doug

 

[kevincook]

This site has a price of $4375.

Edney

Agri-Metal has a product called Tuff Vac 4000 that uses a sweeper and apparently a vacuum combination. The sweeper can be replaced with metal blades for dethatching and verticutting. I don't know the price yet but I'm sure it is very high. Agri-Metal

 

[kevincook]

I received some information in the mail yesterday about the Turfmaster 4000. The PTO version is about $12,000. I could just about buy a new ZD with a grass catcher for that.

Maybe I should just hand rakes to the kids /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Kevin

 

[Mosey]

I looked and looked for a lawn sweeper for a CUT a couple years ago and couldn't come up with anything either. I don't even care if it's PTO driven or wheel driven like the pull behinds for lawn tractors. I ended up getting a 42" pull behind (which was the biggest I could find) at Home Depot and use my Craftsman lawn tractor to clean up the parts of the yard that are real thick and just let the grass lay in the rest of the yard (my yard is 3 1/2 acres, so I don't have time to do it all). The pull behind wheel driven type work good and are fairly cheap (I only paid about $200 for mine on sale), so if someone would make one just like the one I have in a 6' width it would be great for a CUT, but no one makes them that big.

 

[kevincook]

I also have a 42" sweeper and 4 acres of lawn......it just looks ridiculous towing the sweeper behind my L3010 /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Maybe we should design and Build some 72" models????

 

[Mosey]

I've thought about taking 2 3' ones and hooking them together. But, there would be a gap in the center and I haven't figured out how to get around that. The other problem with the current ones is that they don't hold very much. I spend as much time going to dump it as I do filling it. It's really bad in the fall with leaves, it fills up really fast.

 

[homerjer]

Any luck ever finding a 72" or larger pto sweeper?

 

[redleicester]

Kubota make them, as do JD and NH, or there's Wessex / Sisis / Major and so on.