SCUT owners looking for PTO driven leaf vacs

missourithunder · Oct 21, 2009

Gents,
It appears that Harry has suffered a minor setback with one of his parts manufactures and his leaf vac won't be available this fall. Looking more like next summer but that's OK, I can wait.

MissouriThunder

RedDirt · Oct 23, 2009

Missouri,
While we are waiting for "the great leaf collector" to materialize check this out.

Bunch of pictures in these posts so you can just flip through them to see if the system would work for you then read on if it does. Maybe view the last one first. The first two or more about the builds.

Two yard bolt on leaf bucket:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/112403-2cuyd-leaf-bucket-scut-works.html

The rake to collect the leaves:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/112451-good-landscape-rake-cheap.html

And the two working together:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/112402-big-bucket-leaf-moving.html

I also recall a post of a member that mounted a discarded swamp cooler to a rack (or trailer; I don't recall specifically) as a side discharge blower powered by his to a rear pto. He moved a lot of leaves (but I bet it was dusty).

missourithunder · Oct 23, 2009

RedDirt,
Your attachments are incredible. Simple and effective. Thanks for sharing.

MissouriThunder

SPYDERLK · Dec 25, 2010

missourithunder said:
Gents,
It appears that Harry has suffered a minor setback with one of his parts manufactures and his leaf vac won't be available this fall. Looking more like next summer but that's OK, I can wait.

MissouriThunder

How did this item turn out?
larry

BXpanded · Dec 25, 2010

Sorry guys. We haven't been able to get the cost down to our target. We haven't given up yet. We're still looking for better sources for the components we need to buy. We're also considering equipment to make some of those components in house.