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I wanted to mow my leaves today. Something bound up in the old John Deere pedal system between the parking brake and forward reverse pedals. Came in pissed and said they can stay there. Too damn cold. I had already put away the patio furniture and fired up the snowblower. | |||
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Leaves are hell on your blades. Don't bother sharpening them beforehand, they'll be dull in a few minutes. However, your deck will be clean as a whistle. Read this: http://www.grounds-mag.com/mag..._leaves_turn_litter/
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I was never a fan of mowing leaves. Mainly because on the years that it did snow, there were small pieces of leaves all over the kids snowmen. Stupid reason, yeah I know. | |||
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Wait, what? |
Combination of mow and mulch and blow into the woods with the riding mower. I have a nice green lawn of natural cover I never gave to fertilize or worry about some underground bugs eating the roots of. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Master-at-Arms |
I hate raking so first I blow them from the beds onto the grass. I then run them down with the mower, and bag them with whatever clippings are left from the lawn. Foster's, Australian for Bud | |||
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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
Gator blades turn leaves into small pieces that disappear after a couple rains. Blow them away from the house and mulch hell out of them. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house!  |
I have a mulch setting on my mower. Haven’t had to rake....yet. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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When I was a kid you could rake them to the curb and burn them. This was in the southwest part of KCMO! Now I'm back in northern New England, I just blew them into my woods with a back pack blower last Wednesday and mowed for the last time after that. Just in time, since there's now snow on the ground and more on the way. Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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| SF Jake |
When I read the thread title quickly I thought the first word was “mom”.......that really changed what I was prepared for and was confused when I started reading the thread....  Guess I need to catch up on my sleep....lol ________________________ Those who trade liberty for security have neither | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
AgriFab tow behind hard top leaf Mow-N-Vac. Easy! http://agri-fab.com/Products/Vacs/mow-n-vac.aspx If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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I never thought about that, why is that the case? Dry material v. living plant material? I mulch the yard leaves. I have a backpack blower for the driveway, about 75 yards pretty steep downhill. If we get snow or ice on a bed of leaves, clearing is much harder. Stuff comes up in very heavy plates. As a result, I have to keep on the driveway throughout the fall, clearing many times. A south wind and blowing downhill makes for quick work. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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I did the exact same thing. I prefer to rake/blow the leaves into piles and drag them on a tarp to the woods. Then I mow to take care of the rest. | |||
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Ammoholic |
This is what I do. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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My friend owns a large commercial landscaping company. He used to blow leaves into piles and vacuum them into a large truck. Then, he saw Brickman, one of the largest landscaping companies in the country, mulching the leaves. He then bought mulching kits for all of his mowers and did the same thing. The leaves turn into dust. Now, he only vacuums leaves on properties that have a lot of trees but not much turf area. His properties are some of the nicest looking in the area and he gains more customers every year. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
That's exactly what I did when we lived in Tennessee. About 1/3 of our 2 acre lot was lawn and shrub beds, the other 2/3 was wild woods in the back. I tied a large tarp to the back of my lawn tractor and we'd rake the leaves on to it and then drag them into the woods. Still took a lot of work but not near as much as bagging. I was younger, and drank beer in those days so I didn't mind it as much. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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Only the strong survive |
I get the nylon leaf bags and attach it to my riding mower attachment for collecting leaves. The bag holds a lot more leaves then the bushel basket types. My father would drive the neighborhood in the fall and gather up all the bagged leaves at the curb and then grind them up with Sears leaf grinder. 41 | |||
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I run the mower with the bagger and pick it all up, dump in the woods behind my house. I tried mulching them but it makes such a mess and then We are walking through it and tracking it everywhere. JC | |||
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Too clever by half |
Your approach depends on how many leaves you have to deal with. I mulch early until I can't any longer, then bag with a riding mower until I can't, then use a 10 HP Little Wonder walk behind blower when the bulk of the leaves arrive to blow them in piles, rake them onto a tarp, and drag to a curb for a vacuum truck to pick up. Because of the 100+ year old red oaks in my yard, without the blower, I'd spend days trying to get the leaves off the lawn. "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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I first blow my leaves away from the tree rings and then mulch with my Kubota Zero Turn with a mulching deck. My soil is alkaline anyway so the acidity of the leaves is a welcome addition. Mike I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Same here. The red oaks leave very thick leaves that don't break down as quickly as other oaks. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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