pickin up leaves,what do you use?

[hitts427]

I'm using this Jacobsen 72 in,sweeper.12 hp kohler.Picks up leaves,sticks and even some acorns.

 

[rgamble3]

i Use a Cyclone rake.Makes short work in cleaning yard.

 

[MossRoad]

I use a Brinley lawn sweeper.

 

[retiredmgn]

I don't. I'm in the fortunate situation where the wind takes care of it. No nieghbors for a quarter mile. As a kid I had to rake the dam things, load em onto an old bedspread and haul up into the woods. Was just such a foolish waste of time. The wind would blow the nextdoor guys leaves back into our yard.
There ought to be a law for such things.

 

[Stick895]

I just lawn mowed them and let them compost in place. Don't just let them lay. I used to have a couple of maples and when the leaves dropped they'd be knee high walking through them, then I'd run a lawn mower and that sucker'd be spitting out a solid stream of leaf bits. Then rake it out all nice and even. Easy on me and good for the yard. I had some s**t hot grass then.

 

[zzvyb6]

A vintage Woods vacuum but modified to handle a 72" deck: 12" hose, bigger motor, reversed intake side. Runing behind a JD 935 front mower. Leaves, branches, hickory nuts, walnuts, horse poop, dog poop, a few bricks once in a while from driveway edging, a glove once and grass clippings.

 

[coveredbridge]

Cyclone Rake

 

[JimWalch]

Got this DR leaf vacuum for Mom's yard a few years ago. Does a good job if you want to get the leaves off the grass or don't mulch with the mower. I don't need it any more for Mon's yard she got rid of some trees from wind damage. My yard is too small for this so if anyone wants this for half of what it cost me PM me.

 

[MossRoad]

Got this DR leaf vacuum for Mom's yard a few years ago. Does a good job if you want to get the leaves off the grass or don't mulch with the mower. I don't need it any more for Mon's yard she got rid of some trees from wind damage. My yard is too small for this so if anyone wants this for half of what it cost me PM me.

That thing looks like a nuclear power plant! :thumbsup:

 

[RobertN]

I blow them in to the neighbors yard.

 

[hitts427]

I blow them in to the neighbors yard.

Lol.Neighbors are too far away

 

[pete59]

I have a homemade tractor and a pull type lawn sweeper, I then dump them along my plowed garden and the riding mower blows them into the furrows which work up very nice next spring.Beats raking.

 

[V1Rotate]

I made a cover plate that goes over the opening of the mower deck to block anything that tries to get out. Works real good for mulching leaves.

 

[RobertN]

No not really

But, I am interested, what do you guys do with all those leaves? Shred and mulch?

I blow them in to the neighbors yard.

 

[LBrown59]

I just leaf them lay.

 

[grnspot110]

I mow most of them! When they get too thick, I use this set-up & use them for mulch out back:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Cyclone Rake Z-10

 

[MossRoad]

No not really

But, I am interested, what do you guys do with all those leaves? Shred and mulch?

We just leave them in a pile in the woods. They compress down to about 1/4 their original size by spring. Sometimes I take the pallet forks on the tractor and push them back into the woods further and turn them over at the same time. Then I get the worms from the leaf pile and go fishing! :thumbsup:

 

[SPYDERLK]

I'm using this Jacobsen 72 in,sweeper.12 hp kohler.Picks up leaves,sticks and even some acorns

No not really

But, I am interested, what do you guys do with all those leaves? Shred and mulch?

8HP Track Vac fed by MMM behind Mighty Mouse. Shreds leaves nicely. We do acres around the edges of our fields. They go in the manure pile for composting.
larry

 

[turnkey4099]

I just lawn mowed them and let them compost in place. Don't just let them lay. I used to have a couple of maples and when the leaves dropped they'd be knee high walking through them, then I'd run a lawn mower and that sucker'd be spitting out a solid stream of leaf bits. Then rake it out all nice and even. Easy on me and good for the yard. I had some s**t hot grass then.

Same here, put on a mulching plug and go over them 2 or 3 times. done it when leaves were higher than the deck but as much as yours. One day later all disappeared - good for the grass, good for my back, why pick them up?

Harry K