Leaf Collection with your Walk Behind

[TimberXX]

Who collects leaves with a walk behind tractor?

The obvious answers are:
Rotary Sweeper
Pull Behind sweeper
BCS 38 inch mower

I would consider a trac vac Trac-Vac 47 Walk Behind Leaf Collection Vacuum

But I am curious if anyone else has a better idea.

 

[NibbanaFarm]

I've been wishing that BCS would come out with a leaf blower to go on the tractor. The Giant Vac leaf blowers look pretty nice but I'm running out of room in the shed. I try to blow them around with the CC lawn tractor but it doesn't work very well. Leaf cleanup always ends up being a lot of raking.

 

[leonz]

Hello NibbanaFarm,

you might want to check the European BCS and Grillo web pages for a leaf blower attachment Joel could probably get you one.

 

[jaxs]

Bagger on the lawn tractor mower or catcher on 22" push mower reduce's bulk while cleaning to suit me. From bagger and catcher to compost heap. Blowers should be outlawed,they just make a bunch of annoying racket while moveing the problem from one place to another until wind scatter's them again.

 

[TimberXX]

Hello NibbanaFarm,

you might want to check the European BCS and Grillo web pages for a leaf blower attachment Joel could probably get you one.

I don't see anything like this online. Do you have a link?

 

[ottawarob]

I don't see anything like this online. Do you have a link?

Not a super popular opinion, but you could leave them on the ground.
Skip the rake and leave the leaves for a healthier, greener yard : TreeHugger

Alternatively, I bet you could tow a lawn rake with a bcs or your lawn tractor?

 

[TimberXX]

My dad used to do that, I get way to many leaves to attempt that! Thx

 

[Ford850]

I use a pull behind lawn sweeper. A big one. I got it at Home Depot because it was the largest one I could find locally (26 cu ft). This think is heavy, weighing 100 lbs. AllFitHD 58.5 in. 26 cu. ft. Lawn Sweeper-AF-526LS - The Home Depot
I have the curved coupler and a sulky that I use on my BCS, and tow the sweeper behind it. I use the sweeper behind my Grasshoppers too, which are easier to back and dump compared to the BCS/sulky/sweeper train. But overall the BCS does an excellent job pulling it and the sweeper has done a much better job than I expected. I think this is the third year I've had the sweeper.

 

[scodyw]

I also use a lawn sweep, pulled behind a wagon I converted to use with the curved coupler. I have a 45" Agri-Fab, with 25 cu ft capacity. Like stated, the train it is not fun to back up, but works pretty well.

 

[rickyd79]

I've been wishing that BCS would come out with a leaf blower to go on the tractor. The Giant Vac leaf blowers look pretty nice but I'm running out of room in the shed. I try to blow them around with the CC lawn tractor but it doesn't work very well. Leaf cleanup always ends up being a lot of raking.

I am hopeful there will be a "blower" attachment to fit BCS out in the spring. I have seen a prototype.

 

[Ford850]

I am hopeful there will be a "blower" attachment to fit BCS out in the spring. I have seen a prototype.

I stopped at a larger dealer I was passing by a few weeks ago. They had a row of dedicated blowers out front, and I stood there staring at them wondering why in the world BCS doesn't have a simple blower attachment. There's not much to those blowers, since most are all plastic now.

 

[rickyd79]

I stopped at a larger dealer I was passing by a few weeks ago. They had a row of dedicated blowers out front, and I stood there staring at them wondering why in the world BCS doesn't have a simple blower attachment. There's not much to those blowers, since most are all plastic now.

Yes, very easy. Not much to them. Like I said, hopefully all goes well and they are out by spring.

 

[RalphVa]

Our old Gravely 30 inch mower did a pretty good mulching job. That's all I ever do with leaves: mulch them with a good mulching mower. Don't collect them. Mother Nature meant for them to be there. Just chop them up so they don't smother your grass and leave them there. I used a Scag mower to mow 4-5 acres of church property in NJ with gobs of big oak trees on the property. It wasn't a mulching mower. So, I'd drive around, discharging the lawn and leaves to where I was going the next round. Kept doing this until the thing would hardly run. Then turned around the other way for one round. Beat using the old Sears underbelly mowers with an engine attached to their discharge to blow the leaves into a huge tented wagon behind. That rig was a mess to use and to maintain.

Today, I used our Honda walkbehind on our trails to chop up the leaves. It's a great mulcher: twin blades.

Ralph

 

[ottawarob]

Our old Gravely 30 inch mower did a pretty good mulching job. That's all I ever do with leaves: mulch them with a good mulching mower. Don't collect them. Mother Nature meant for them to be there. Just chop them up so they don't smother your grass and leave them there. I used a Scag mower to mow 4-5 acres of church property in NJ with gobs of big oak trees on the property. It wasn't a mulching mower. So, I'd drive around, discharging the lawn and leaves to where I was going the next round. Kept doing this until the thing would hardly run. Then turned around the other way for one round. Beat using the old Sears underbelly mowers with an engine attached to their discharge to blow the leaves into a huge tented wagon behind. That rig was a mess to use and to maintain.

Today, I used our Honda walkbehind on our trails to chop up the leaves. It's a great mulcher: twin blades.

Ralph

I did that with my lawn tractor this year. A week after, you could barely even tell there were leaves there.

 

[NibbanaFarm]

I did that with my lawn tractor this year. A week after, you could barely even tell there were leaves there.

That's my preferred method of attack every year. I make sure to mow right before the leaves come down so the grass is short. Then I try to do the round up after most of the leaves are down but before they get real wet. It works to a point but the pile eventually gets to where it's too big to move and then it's time to rake. If I leave many at all, it really does a number on the grass. Sure beats living in the city and not having any leaves though.

 

[jaxs]

" Sure beats living in the city and not having any leaves though. "
Any day and twice on Sunday! :dance1: