PTO DRIVEN LEAF/GRASS VAC

[grsr3]

Can't find anything about a leaf or grass vacuum/collector that would be driven off my PTO. Seems to me that an attachment like that would be available for all tractors.
George

 

[Deerlope]

Build one using an old snowblower .

 

[JackIL]

Check these Trac-Vac models out. Model 854 and Model 856

JackIL

 

[grsr3]

Hi Jack,
I guess I'm thinking about something that doesn't exist. I'm looking for something that would not have to use a mower deck----is that possible? Just a pull behind that would turn from your PTO and have some kind of rolling enclosure that would suck up whatever you want to gather and blow it into a cart or closed wagon. Make sense???????
George

 

[3238dpw]

Here is what you are looking for, Except I think they are pricey. The sort of thing you are looking for exists for use with sports turf
golf turf equipment A. Therrien & fils

 

[grsr3]

Hi Scott-
That's a beauty. But I don't own a golf course, Haha. Something like that would be great. I think I could modify my home meade 4' x 8' garden cart with high sides and a top and put some kind of liner in it that would be able to be pulled out with the load for easy dumping. But the problem is finding, mounting, and hooking up a blower, and then fabricating some kind of scoop or plenum that would skim the ground to pick up whatever it is you are gathering. Got any ideas?????

Geo

 

[Grrrr]

I think that you have too options for a PTO collector to go behind a tractor.

One has a rotating brush and simply brushed everything it goes over up and pushes it into a hopper.

Look something like this



Our local rugby club uses one and during the Autumn covers about 50 acres of thick leaves that fall a week. There quite effective.

The other option is more of a hoover.

Something like this

There website is here

This might be easier to make. You would just have to have the fan unit and then a massive hoover head to drive over the leaves with.

What are you going to be using it for?

 

[Rara Avis]

I think that you have too options for a PTO collector to go behind a tractor.

One has a rotating brush and simply brushed everything it goes over up and pushes it into a hopper.

Look something like this



Our local rugby club uses one and during the Autumn covers about 50 acres of thick leaves that fall a week. There quite effective.

The other option is more of a hoover.

Something like this

There website is here

This might be easier to make. You would just have to have the fan unit and then a massive hoover head to drive over the leaves with.

What are you going to be using it for?

So does their Horse Manure Vacuum...The Stud??? really work at picking up the piles or should I ask how much of a pile will it pick up...

 

[sandman2234]

Mine might pick up dry manure, as it picks up all kinds of s..., if you know what i mean. If I don't get employed before long, my grass vac may go up for sale. I really like it, so it won't be cheap.
Mine is a Giant Vac and has a hopper big enough to park a small riding mower in. I don't know how much it holds, but a lot more than I can ever p/u in one session and that include the sand it picks up.
David from jax

 

[fish6942]

Mine might pick up dry manure, as it picks up all kinds of s..., if you know what i mean. If I don't get employed before long, my grass vac may go up for sale. I really like it, so it won't be cheap.
Mine is a Giant Vac and has a hopper big enough to park a small riding mower in. I don't know how much it holds, but a lot more than I can ever p/u in one session and that include the sand it picks up.
David from jax

David - Is your Giant Vac PTO driven?

To the OP, consider that if you use a system that collects from the mower deck that it will be compacted much better that a simple vacuum.

 

[Grrrr]

The fan system that the Terra Vac Colt that I posted a picture of has a very clever fan system. We had a demo machine shown to us the other day because we need something to speed up the poo collecting in the horse fields and we were very impressed by it's suction.

Picked up any poo you could put it near, leaves and water from a trough very easily. We are now either considering getting a new one or trying to find one second hand one.

When we get one I am going to have a good look at how it gets such good suction as it seems to work so much better than lots of other poo collectors.

 

[Rara Avis]

Just got a quote back from them on the Stud....6995 GBP...
Going to have to think about those numbers...

 

[sandman2234]

No, my Giant Vac isn't pto driven. Probably not hard to change over to it, but getting the needed speed would be the problem for the impeller to run fast enough. It would require some sort of speed increaser, like is used for a pto generator.
As far as the material being compacted better from a mower p/u, I don't know, but mine pretty much chops/breaks it up into powder sized pieces with just the impeller chewing it up.
David from jax

 

[SkunkWerX]

No, my Giant Vac isn't pto driven. Probably not hard to change over to it, but getting the needed speed would be the problem for the impeller to run fast enough. It would require some sort of speed increaser, like is used for a pto generator.
As far as the material being compacted better from a mower p/u, I don't know, but mine pretty much chops/breaks it up into powder sized pieces with just the impeller chewing it up.
David from jax

David,
I just used my Cyclone Vac this past weekend. Same result as you stated, it pulverizes eveything.
I was mowing into it, which was giving a little reduction, but the vast majority is the impeller fan itself doing to reduction.
I can now say, it does as good a job at reducing as either of two shredders with the flails. Easily 10:1. The pieces of leaves were no larger than 1/4".

 

[sandman2234]

TRAC VAC, MODEL 854 PTO , VACUUM - (eBay item 330189633774 end time Nov-24-07 14:39:01 PST)

David from jax