Homemade Leaf Vacuum

[Bird]

And it worked just fine, Doug.

 

[therrien]

This collecter still has to be tweeked.
I want to narrow axle, or offset it to the right of the mower.
I was given the blower unit. It sat brand new in someones garage for a few years, bad gas!. The box is made out of 9/16
Lexan. It will hold just short of 2 cubic yards.

 

[therrien]

Another one

 

[therrien]

Another one2

 

[therrien]

Another one3

 

[therrien]

Another one4

 

[therrien]

Last one. I got carried away. I finally got t shrink pictures since they were required to be 100000.

 

[therrien]

Bird
Nice shirt! and the color is right also.

 

[Egon]

That's a nice looking outfit.

Egon

 

[RalphVa]

Our church property in NJ had one of these to handle the leaves on about 5 acres with LOTS of oak trees. Used Sears tractors, cart, blower, etc. AWFUL noisey rig. When I took over the mowing chores, I dumped all that stuff, bought a Scag ZTR mower and chopped up the leaves with it. Just discharge the leaves to the inside of ever-increasing rounds until the engine starts going chunk-chunk. Then turn around and discharge them the other way. Worked fine.

If the Scag was a mulching mower, it would have worked without doing the chunk-chunk stuff, as this is what I used in La with leaves falling 6 months out of the year: a mulching mower.

You're losing a lot of nature's fertilization for the grass by not mulching those leaves right in place. If it lowers the pH (rare), lime is cheap.

I vote to tow it out onto a frozen pond like the one poster said. Use it for ice fishing.

Ralph