Too many leaves

[Venturous Randy]

I like having a lot of trees around my house, but this time of year becomes a lot of work. I have already hauled about 15 loads of leaves on a tough vinyl sheet that is about 8 by 18 that I load as high as my lawn tractor. This about what one load looks like.

RandyA

[slowrollwv]

That is a lot of leaves. I have about about 20 trees in my yard and have yet to rake leaves. I use the mower and let the wind take care of the rest.

[pbjman]

Randy, what do you do with them?

I use a similar method; here we rake them onto a tarp and then drag it to the curb so the leaf-sucking truck can come by and vacuum them up.

[Marcarl]

Get a bigger lawn tractor = less loads.

Always more than one way to skin a cat.

[Carbon_One]

Time to get a shredder.

[Venturous Randy]

Randy, what do you do with them?

I use a similar method; here we rake them onto a tarp and then drag it to the curb so the leaf-sucking truck can come by and vacuum them up.

 

Yep, that's how we do it here. About the only advantage living in the city limits. I have a surprisingly strong electric leaf blower I use to pile most of them up and I have a large gas powered with about an 8 HP motor on it that I pull around behind my lawn mower that really moves a lot of leaves.

RandyA

Edited November 5, 2014 by Venturous Randy

[ragtop69gs]

I tow an 880 Trac-Vac behind my gravely 816 tractor, chop em up with the mower deck and the trac vac shreds them more and vacuums them up. Fast & Easy.

 

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Edited November 5, 2014 by ragtop69gs

[naturbar]

You do what?? I thought you were supposed to hot glue them back on ! The hardest part is matching each leaf to where it fell off.....man that is exhausting ! I'm going to bed now, good nite

[Bert2006]

Pile them in the back corner of the yard and leave them. End up with great compost the next year.

[djh3]

I was looking for Snoopy to come running in and jump in the pile.

[Flyinfool]

I just ignore the leaves. It will not be long before a good wind comes and then they are all gone.

[1rooster]

I have 25 giant oak trees in my front yard.It takes me 2 hours everytime with a backpack blower.I have a Mexican friend come over and in 30 minutes he can rake the yard that takes me 2 hours to blow.I have another yard that is so steep I have to use chains on my mower to cut the grass.Last year I rolled my mower end over end and now he weed eats the yard in 15 minutes.I have another bank that is so steep I hired a rent a goat and it came over and looked at the bank and got back on the trailer.I have an electric blower that I have to use every day on the patio or we cannot get to the house because the leaves are too high.

[Flyinfool]

I have 25 giant oak trees in my front yard.It takes me 2 hours everytime with a backpack blower.I have a Mexican friend come over and in 30 minutes he can rake the yard that takes me 2 hours to blow.I have another yard that is so steep I have to use chains on my mower to cut the grass.Last year I rolled my mower end over end and now he weed eats the yard in 15 minutes.I have another bank that is so steep I hired a rent a goat and it came over and looked at the bank and got back on the trailer.I have an electric blower that I have to use every day on the patio or we cannot get to the house because the leaves are too high.

 

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

It sounds like the tool missing from your arsenal is a chain saw..........

[1rooster]

:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

It sounds like the tool missing from your arsenal is a chain saw..........

 

 

I have a chainsaw BUT my wife is a tree hugger and it sure is nice in the summer with all the shade.

[uncledj]

I'm with ya.

I live in the woods with about an acre cleared around the house. I blow them with a parking lot blower (8hp Kohler on it), until they get too deep to blow, then rake them onto a tarp and drag them into the woods and dump them.

I've got it just about beat this year, but I wonder if I'm gonna be able to keep this up when I'm a old timer.

Hopefully I'll be outta here before I get to the point where I can't handle it.

(Gonna retire to a different locale) Small place in Central PA for the Summer, and Central FL for the Winter.

Wife wants to move near the Outer Banks, but I doubt we'll be able to afford that.

[dacheedah]

Mulch em up with the tractor, worms eat em add nitrogen

[saddlebum]

I like having a lot of trees around my house, but this time of year becomes a lot of work. I have already hauled about 15 loads of leaves on a tough vinyl sheet that is about 8 by 18 that I load as high as my lawn tractor. This about what one load looks like.

RandyA

 

Looks like you really got it down to a system -------I'll PM you my address so you will know were to go next.

[Freebird]

I'll be dealing with leaves this weekend if things dry out enough.

[Eck]

I have 25 giant oak trees in my front yard.

 

I know how you feel.. Our old house had 29 huge oak trees...I got to where I hated fall due to all the leaves so we sold out and moved.

Now we do not have one tree in our yard and I love it..