what attachment for spring yard clean up?

deere755 · Apr 5, 2005

I used my blower to blow it away from the house and then used my pull behind lawn sweeper.

Laminarman · Apr 5, 2005

Is your lawn a lawn or a country lawn? I mean is it manicured green grass or Kentucky Blue, or is it like a rural lawn (read crab grass)? The lot which will be my lawn is heavy old growth grassy stuff, certainly not planted seed and all nice and perty. However, I turn my 6' chain harrow around to slightly less aggressive and drag away. It dethatches and drags all sort of stuff off. I built a lift for it to clean it off. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS IF YOU HAVE A REGULAR NICE LAWN LIKE THOSE FOLKS IN A NICE UPSCALE SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD. You will have some nicely chewed up lawn. But if it's rough country grass, it works awesome.

megotatractor · Apr 5, 2005

country lawn. crab grass and all. a draf might work for the poop and it would loosen up the weeping willow leaves...

beenthere · Apr 5, 2005

I find the best (for me) to be the power blower attached to my MC519 cart, on the Deere X485 54" deck. Picks up and cleans the lawn real well, of leaves, sticks, shells, and pine cones. Leaves the dirt and the new grass /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Jrrcorp · Apr 7, 2005

I've been asking the same question. This is what I found out. An estate rake (TCS has 4' ones for under $300), or a lawn sweeper (TCS has them for about $279), or if you want to spen big bucks there are powered sweepers with vacumn systems that work great for golf courses and million dollar estates. I wonder.... what would be the result of going over all the piles off dog land mines in my back yard with a lawn sweeper?

DaMadman · Apr 8, 2005

( I've been asking the same question. This is what I found out. An estate rake (TCS has 4' ones for under $300), or a lawn sweeper (TCS has them for about $279), or if you want to spen big bucks there are powered sweepers with vacumn systems that work great for golf courses and million dollar estates. I wonder.... what would be the result of going over all the piles off dog land mines in my back yard with a lawn sweeper? )

It depends on the consistency. The hard ones shoot right into the sweeper. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif hahahaha I won't go into detail about the mushy ones /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

bczoom · Apr 8, 2005

( It'd be nice if they made light attachments for twigs and stuff that didn't leave any marks in your lawn)

Since nobody else mentioned it yet, I will.... KIDS!!! Best thing there is for sticks /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I use a combination of an initial mowing (blowing inward to create windrows) and/or a lawn sweeper. I don't have poop but like DaMadman said, I believe it would be pulled in if it was hard.

Boondox · Apr 8, 2005

Sometimes, when all the snow is gone and I'm faced with acres of devastation in the form of fallen branches, half rotten leaves, landmines from my six beloved golden retrievers etc, I wish I had one of those vaporizers like they had in the old science fiction movies!

Pete

bczoom · Apr 8, 2005

I have one of these that I'm going to try today in an area that's pretty badly covered. I'll let you know how it works.

Jrrcorp · Apr 8, 2005

Anyone heard of a "flex-tine weeder"? I found out about them today. It's a 3 pt. hitch implement with a frame and several rows of 5/16" tines which are bend of curved. This was used a lot before the spraying of young corn plants became a standard practice. The long tines, usally 12" to 18" long are very flexable and are spaced about 1-1/2" to 2-1/2" apart in four or more rows. There are several articles written by university researchers which describe the various styles. These are still used by organic farmers. They also seem to be hard to find. Anyone with dealer info, please let us know. This would be a great clean-up and de-thatching tool. PS. I imagine it would make a mess of a fresh dropping!