Fall clean up is a major task here at El rancho del Poko. We must have 20+ trees. Plus trees bordering the property. The co. that does the next door neighbor's keeps yelling at me that for the low, low price of $300 a pop, (they want to do it 3 times!) they will do it for me. LOL, bump that!
So I normally use a ridding mower like a blower & and a push blower to round the leaves (leaf, leave, leaves, %^$^$# English!) in to rows and then rake em on to tarps. Then tow the tarp to a wooded area to dump. It takes 2 people about a week all totaled and just plain sux.
So I whip out my handy dandy laptop and google it. Found a way to make a collection bag out of a tarp that attaches to the out chute of the lawn tractor. Only problem is unmulched, fills up every 3 and a half minutes. Link below
So I buy a $50 mulch kit for the ridding mower. Works great. But not having made that bag thing yet, I use a lawn sweeper that tows behind the ridding mower. ($300. Link below)
Takes just a little longer then mowing grass, works like a charm and cost less than 40% of what those landscapers wanted to do one pass. That and we now have the tools for next year.
I am not counting the cost of the mower as we use that for grass and towing a work trailer for heavy stuff, around the yard
Bag collector; http://www.instructables.com/id/Tarp-leaf-bagging-system/?ALLSTEPS
Mulch kit. Covers out shute of mowere and blades chop up grass clippings and leaves; Fall clean up is a major task here at El rancho del Poko. We must have 20+ trees plus trees bordering the property. The co. that does the next door neighbor's keeps yelling at me that for the low, low price of $300 a pop, (they want to do it 3 times!) they will do it for me. LOL, bump that!
So I normally use a ridding mower like a blower & and a push blower to round the leaves (leaf, leave, leaves, %^$^$# English!) in to rows and then rake em on to tarps. Then tow the tarp to a wooded area to dump. It takes 2 people about a week all totaled and just plain sux.
So I whip out my handy dandy laptop and google it. Found a way to make a collection bag out of a tarp that attaches to the out chute of the lawn tractor. Only problem is unmulched, fills up every 3 and a half minutes. Link below
So I buy a $50 mulch kit for the ridding mower. Works great. But not having made that bag thing yet, I use a lawn sweeper that tows behind the ridding mower. ($300. Link below)
Takes just a little longer then mowing grass, works like a charm and cost less than 40% of what those landscapers wanted to do one pass. That and we now have the tools for next year.
I am not counting the cost of the mower as we use that for grass and towing a work trailer for heavy stuff, around the yard
Bag collector; http://www.instructables.com/id/Tarp-leaf-bagging-system/?ALLSTEPS
Mulch kit. Covers out shute of mowere and blades chop up grass clippings and leaves; Fall clean up is a major task here at El rancho del Poko. We must have 20+ trees plus trees bordering the property. The co. that does the next door neighbor's keeps yelling at me that for the low, low price of $300 a pop, (they want to do it 3 times!) they will do it for me. LOL, bump that!
