Leaf bucket

[sequoyah101]

Short post.

Lots of leaves to move out of the yard. Like a mountain of them.

Pallet forks, two 16' gates covered with field fence, strap them on with some ratchet straps and Voila! You can move big piles of leaves out of the yard pretty fast.

A bit awkward and not deep enough to make full use of the gate height. The angle of repose for oak leaves is highly variable but low. I need to build about a 12' x 6' deep by 4' high basket with a front lip more conducive to scooping the leaves. One day when I've nothing else to do.

I'm retired! What I don't get done today can usually wait until tomorrow. What I don't get done before I die won't matter anymore!

 

[Knorrman]

Well done! I could use something like that too! Cheers!

 

[RalphVa]

Hope you're using them on a compost pile. Even unground-up, they'll eventually compost.

I just used a ZTR to bush up leaves underneath big oak trees on 5 acres of church property back in the 80s. Left them on the grass where nature wants them.

Ralph

 

[Thomas]

Good idea. :thumbsup:

 

[Citydude]

Gotta love good old common sense engineering!

 

[Big Barn]

I like it! Nice work.

 

[GeneV]

Good idea. I also mulch mine into the lawn in the fall, but still have a bunch on the flower beds that we clear out in the spring and haul to the compost pile.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Neat idea

 

[Stomper]

Great thinking out of the box. I love the ideas that people think up to make jobs easier.

 

[Gem99ultra]

Geez, Seq/101 - you DO have a lot of leaves. When you mentioned leaves I was thinking of maybe a 55 gallon drum full. Heck - you could fill a dozen of those with one load of your home-make leave-hauler. Super idea.

On the other hand, I'd probably simply mow over them, chopping them up into mulch. Great for the lawn, and a lot less work.

 

[zzvyb6]

A leaf vac makes more sense to me. As they go thru the suction impeller, they get chopped into small pieces. Then they can be dumped into a 'loaf' and burned or sold to city people as fertilizer for their 2 tomato plants.

 

[shooterdon]

Put two hinged sections on the verticals that fold 270* back to front to make sides.

I was going to do something as I have a LOT of leaves too. Last year bought Gator blades for the rider and just mulched the leaves up. Worked well enough for my rural lawn. Need to do it 2-3 times to keep the level of leaves reasonable, so a lot slower than scooping them up once...but adding nutrients back seemed like a good trade off.

 

[MoArk Willy]

Good idea.
I recently bought some forks for my bucket to speed up hauling a few brush piles from yard cleanup.
But about mulching leaves.
I tried that last year but unfortunately the leaves stayed pretty wet and didn't mulch well. I would up raking them up anyway.
A leaf vac is a consideration.....but I would like to see a 3 point one at a price point I can afford.

 

[shooterdon]

I doubt a leaf vac will be very effective if they are too wet to mulch...but others will have real experience.

BTW, I really like your concept. The more I think about it, the more I like it. 16’ would be a bit too wide for my situation but an 8-10’ “bucket” with sides will move a lot of leaves. Luckily, I have a remote place to dump leaves, so mulching them is not necessary.

Good work!