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What does everyone else do about leaves?
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
i let them blow away , then complain to the wife why she hasn't raked up what's around the walk. she rakes them up and i clean them up.
One Life , One Love , A Love Supreme
The only thing new is untold history, Harry Truman
The only thing new is untold history, Harry Truman
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
There is an Italian word to cover a situation like that and you got em in brass.
Bill
"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
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" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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"Life's tough.It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
" We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
- Aesop
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
blow them into the woods.
Jason A.
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1948 CUB (ser.# 326XX)
sicklebar
Cub grader blade
Cub-193 moaldboard plow
Woods 59C belly mower
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1948 farmall f cub
1955 farmall f cub
1955 international lo boy
1952 vai case
2005 236B Caterpillar
1999 TDI Jetta MK IV I like!
2008 H.D FLTRI - Location: Pa. southeast
Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
beaconlight wrote:There is an Italian word to cover a situation like that and you got em in brass.
come on bill she needs the work and a family that works together stays together. i know i'm a light weight to some but we've sorted it out for thirty one yrs now.
One Life , One Love , A Love Supreme
The only thing new is untold history, Harry Truman
The only thing new is untold history, Harry Truman
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
I have a Cyclone Vacuum attached to my riding lawn mower. Leaves is the easiest thing for it to work with, but by no means easy in the end. It holds a lot and though I have only a tree line to deal with it refills quick and I am unloading as much as collecting. I can't imagine doing even an acre of leaves this way. I like the lawn vac, but I couldn't justify it given the size of your place. I compost my leaves and grass, but try turning that pile (around 30 feet long)!
bust it? you bet I can!
53 w/ sicklebar mower, dirt & snow plows, potato harvester, potato hiller, 3 types of harrows, and a old fashion hayrack all in ellsworth maine
53 w/ sicklebar mower, dirt & snow plows, potato harvester, potato hiller, 3 types of harrows, and a old fashion hayrack all in ellsworth maine
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
Well, now I don't have to worry about the leaves...they are covered in about 25" of snow in my yard now! Honestly, living in the city does have its advantages....just move the leaves out to the front "boulevard" (grass strip between the sidewalk and the street), and the city comes along with a big vacuum to clean them up!
Mike in La Crosse, WI
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
Bill Hudson wrote:I use a Cub Cadet 1450 with a 42" mower deck to grind up my leaves in-place. I used expanded metal to make a block for the exit chute. No drilling needed, two holes are there in the perfect location. Then simply mow to your heart's content. This dramatically reduces leaf volume and virtually eliminates leaves blowing from one spot to another. The final result is, as the leaves decompose, organic fertilizer for the lawn. Works great for me, however, I don't have 5.5 acres.
Bill
We've only got a couple acres with leaf problems but my wife does the same. Just mows them till they ain't, or they become the neighbors problem.
Smiley
smiley - upstate NY --- Git r done
Learned fixin and tinkerin from my Father and scavenging from my buddies grandfather, who could go to the dump with a half load and come back with a full one
Learned fixin and tinkerin from my Father and scavenging from my buddies grandfather, who could go to the dump with a half load and come back with a full one
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
I was looking at this gadget. I saw one at the nearby Family Farm and Home store for $299. It looks like
you could chop up the leaves and then rake them with this "Estate Rake". It looks like a hay rake.
Have a look-see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63pAl2cBz8
Curt
you could chop up the leaves and then rake them with this "Estate Rake". It looks like a hay rake.
Have a look-see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u63pAl2cBz8
Curt
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
I just mow over them.
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Re: What does everyone else do about leaves?
I've got 2 1/4 acres and lots of trees. Yes its a pain, and a learning process which is still going.
If the leaves are light I mow the lawn shreding and throwing them toward the center as each pass shinks the circle until its all mulched down and in a line down the middle of my yard. I'll then collect them with the grass baggers hooked up. This way I'll fill and empty the bags about 10 times instead of 50 times. The smaler pieces don't clog the shoot either.
If it heavy i'll use a backpack blower and blow it onto a 6x8' tarp which my wife and I flip and dump it onto a landscape trailer pulled by my cub. I have a hillside at the bottom of my property leading down to a river thats had erosion problems so I dump the leaves onto the hillside. Its far enough back from the river so it doesn't get washed away. I change the spot on the hill each year giving it a chance to turn to soil which it has done very well. The leaf litter has turned a ragged washed out hillside into an attrative vegitation sustaining park like setting. And you wouldn't believe the earthworms that the leaves produce!
Mike.
If the leaves are light I mow the lawn shreding and throwing them toward the center as each pass shinks the circle until its all mulched down and in a line down the middle of my yard. I'll then collect them with the grass baggers hooked up. This way I'll fill and empty the bags about 10 times instead of 50 times. The smaler pieces don't clog the shoot either.
If it heavy i'll use a backpack blower and blow it onto a 6x8' tarp which my wife and I flip and dump it onto a landscape trailer pulled by my cub. I have a hillside at the bottom of my property leading down to a river thats had erosion problems so I dump the leaves onto the hillside. Its far enough back from the river so it doesn't get washed away. I change the spot on the hill each year giving it a chance to turn to soil which it has done very well. The leaf litter has turned a ragged washed out hillside into an attrative vegitation sustaining park like setting. And you wouldn't believe the earthworms that the leaves produce!
Mike.
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