Sweeper

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hwp

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I recently purchased a well-used sweeper which I rebuilt and is now ready to use. My main use will be light snow removal. It was in good mechanical condition but needed a fair bit of TLC.
 

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One problem I had was that the frame of the sweeper could drop down far enough for the angling cylinder and post on the swivel plate to drag on the ground. I attached a piece of angle to the swivel plate and then mounted a pair of anti-scalp rollers from a mower deck on swivels to keep the mounting frame off the ground. So far it seems to work.
 

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I guess you have pretty dry snow up there, down here that wouldn't work. Our snow is wet and very heavy.
 
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I have a walk behind sweeper and use it when there is just a dusting or after I plow to get the balance off before it turns to ice. Works well, but sometimes it can be slow going with only a 30" sweeper....
 
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Howard,

That sweeper makes a pretty good de-thatcher also. My neighbor uses something just like that and you wouldn't believe the crap that he gets out of his lawn by sweeping it. Give it a shot and see if it works for you.

Murph
 
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Hi Murph:
I had an old walnut tree on the edge of my property die this summer and I finally got around to cutting it down. I asked my neighbour if I could fall it on his property and he said that was OK with him. There was a tremendous amount of small twigs and branches left after we cleaned up the stuff we could burn as firewood and use as kindling. So I decided to try using the sweeper to clean up the mess. It did a great job of putting the debris into a windrow and it dethatched his yard at the same time. I didn't use it to dethatch my lawns this year but I will in the future. I also used it to spread sand on part of my lawn. I first aerated the lawn and then spread sand over to help break up the clay. The sand was too wet to flow through my salt spreader so I spread it by hand. Then I used the sweeper to even out the sand. It apears to have gone into the holes from the aeration which is what I wanted. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif It will soon be time to put the cab on the tractor and mount the snowblower and salt spreader to deal with winter snows.
 
 

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