 alkizmo
join:2007-06-25
Pierrefonds, QC
kudos:1 | Why don't people pick up dead leaves with lawn mowers? I'm not saying nobody uses their lawn mowers to pick up the dead leaves from their lawn, but it certainly isn't one of the typical methods I see being used.
People either rake the leaves
Blow the leaves with a leaf blower
Which all end up having to put them in bags by hand
Unless you use a leaf vacuum.
It's all extra equipment (except for the rake).
Today, I cleaned up my front lawn. I had 11 bags.
Then I went to my backyard, it's 3 times the size of the front yard and has about 5 times the number of trees.
So I looked around, no one to see me.
I took my lawn mower, set it at the maximum height and went on my way.
In half the time it took me to do the front lawn, I had cleared my backyard with only 4 bags (Shredded leaves compact better) and had a cleaner end result!
Why? Why do people use leaf blowers, pick things up by hand? I can understand for the flower gardens, or on the patio, and in corners, but for the flat lawn area, why complicate things?
Is it that people just don't think about it?
Or they all "secretly" do it like I did? (Though next time I won't be so secretive, because it works!) |
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 shdesignsPowered By Infinite Improbabilty DrivePremium
join:2000-12-01
Stone Mountain, GA | Raking leaves will kill my back. Had a guy do the leaves in my front lawn and it took 90 bags (less than 4000sf). He was fast but it took 3 hours.
I got a riding mower with a triple bagger. Do it myself and the front is about 7 bags and takes half an hour.
Now I don't even bag, mow front leaves, drive to back of lot and dump bins.
Neighbor uses pushmower to chop up then blow into piles and bag. I'll do her back yard with riding mower. A few passes and it will blow all the chopped leaves into the back woods. Nothing like a 15HP blower/shredder  If her front was not so steep, I'd do her front too.
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alkizmo
join:2007-06-25
Pierrefonds, QC
kudos:1 | Yes indeed...? |
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 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
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I have a mulch kit on my rider. I just wait until all the leaves are down and I mow over them. I don't bag or rake. Heck, wife and neighbors are lucky I do that much. I's a firm believer in letting things grow where they will as nature intended.
Meaning my lawn would be a brush farm by now.
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alkizmo
join:2007-06-25
Pierrefonds, QC
kudos:1 | said by Snakeoil:I have a mulch kit on my rider. I just wait until all the leaves are down and I mow over them. I don't bag or rake. Heck, wife and neighbors are lucky I do that much. I's a firm believer in letting things grow where they will as nature intended.
Meaning my lawn would be a brush farm by now.
Your logic is that you should let a forest grow in your backyard 
Then you won't have grass to mow! YAY! |
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 Lurch77Premium
join:2001-11-22
Oconto, WI
kudos:4 | reply to alkizmo
The only time I put the bagger on my walk-behind is in the fall. I use it to bag leaves in the yard as you inquired here. I have a rake and a blower/vac, but the lawnmower does the job faster. |
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SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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Mentor, OH
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Or course. But my wife is on my about the jungle that is growing around the house. Plus all the mice the cats have captured inside the house So I have to go and keep it neat.
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 tp0dyabbazooiePremium
join:2001-02-13
Carnegie, PA
kudos:4 | reply to alkizmo
need a pic on this one... :P
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 LazManPremium
join:2003-03-26
canada | reply to alkizmo
I use a sweeper behind my tractor... Does a great job, takes maybe 45 mins to do front and back yards; drive them to the back of the lot, and drop in the wood lot... |
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I hop on my rider and use that. Raking is for chumps.
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 Coma Thanks StevePremium
join:2001-12-30
NirvanaLand | reply to alkizmo
Just got it this past week.
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 jbgroup1Non ConformistPremium
join:2000-05-04
Dayton, MD
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said by Snakeoil:I have a mulch kit on my rider. I just wait until all the leaves are down and I mow over them. I don't bag or rake. Heck, wife and neighbors are lucky I do that much. I's a firm believer in letting things grow where they will as nature intended.
Meaning my lawn would be a brush farm by now.
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to alkizmo
No bagger on my riding mower but last year I got a blower and vacuum. Nor sure I will be able to use ti this year - keeps raining on Fridays.
I will probably pour the chopped up leaves on the flower beds I did not get a chance to mulch.
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 marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:2 | reply to alkizmo
We only get about 20-30 bags a year and mowing takes less than 30 minutes; so it is not worth our while to get a more expensive mower than can bag. |
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bemis
join:2008-07-18
Reading, MA Reviews:
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1) Run the mower over them, filling the bag
2) Dump bag in barrels (I have 5 Brute barrels)
3) When the barrels are full, shut the mower down and fill paper bags with them--I use those cardboard chutes, no bending/etc... I put the cardboard chute across a barrel and load a bag on that way..
Takes me a few hours to do the entire lawn, almost no bending except to take off the mower bag. |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
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We have about an acre of lawn in the middle of the woods. I have a push mower and set to much all year long. Mowing in the fall lifts the dead leaves up and chops them up. Some compost in the lawn and some get blown down the hill into the woods.
Matter of fact that mowing the lawn is on the to-do list for tomorrow.
Except for a couple of special places that tend to trap leaves I don't do any raking.
The leaves were here before we built the house and they will be here long after I'm gone.
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kherrPremium
join:2000-09-04
Collinsville, IL | +10  |
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 jrs8084Premium
join:2002-03-02
Statesville, NC
kudos:1 | reply to alkizmo
At prior places, I used to rake.
At this place (of 17 years), I used to mow (mulch)/bag. Well, actually, I through them in the woods behind my house
I gave up after two years because nobody else does anything with their leaves. So, now I just mulch without bagging. Quite honestly, it really doesn't look any different than places that bag.
I guess a lot of it depends on the leaf types. |
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I did that ONCE. 12 bags for the front alone.
Now I just feed it all back to the grass via mulching mower.
Woot!
D'ave
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