[bobzdar]

I bought a yard sweeper, tow behind your lawn mower and has a "dump bed" style function. I have 3.5 acres of which about 2.5 acres are trees, so I get tons of leaves on my lawn and driveway. I can clear it in about an hour with the sweeper. I tried leaf blowers, rakes, mowing, etc. and none were anywhere near as quick and easy as using the sweeper.

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by bobzdar

... I have 3.5 acres...
... I can clear it in about an hour with the sweeper...

?? Does not compute...
I mow 1.2 acres with a 36" deck, in third gear, takes a minimum of four hours.
Do you have a compact tractor and a 6' or 7' sweeper?

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by pontiac jack

?? Does not compute...
I mow 1.2 acres with a 36" deck, in third gear, takes a minimum of four hours.
Do you have a compact tractor and a 6' or 7' sweeper?

I used a sweeper and could run my stick shift lawn tractor in high gear wide open, but the wind........Then emptying the sweeper still wasnt that fast!

[GT182]

This outfit up in Vermont sells some good equipment.... http://www.drpower.com/Vergennes.aspx

Link to their leaf and lawn vacs.... http://www.drpower.com/Leaf-Lawn-Vac...aPCjC4zbEj1bEL

Their clearance sale.... http://www.drpower.com/navSubDepartm...e=clearance_dr

They even sell reconditioned machines.

[GT182]

This will surely take care of leaves.... and just about anything else laying around in yer yard. LOL

PECO Brush Blazer .....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wI4A8idIho

.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaSi...eature=related

.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=adl_cCF2k8U

But this one is even better...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOMeR...eature=related

[bobzdar]

Originally Posted by pontiac jack

?? Does not compute...
I mow 1.2 acres with a 36" deck, in third gear, takes a minimum of four hours.
Do you have a compact tractor and a 6' or 7' sweeper?

If you read my post, only about .75 acres is lawn, the rest are woods (3.5 is total). I have a 4' sweeper, it works best if running at high speed (no gears, hydrodrive) as it thows the leaves to the back and fills more evenly that way so it is actually around the same if not a little quicker than mowing the lawn. I usually sweep it 3 or 4 times - about once a week once the leaves start coming down, but may mulch the last one or two times to give the lawn some fertilization. It's way quicker than any other method I've tried as I get a TON of leaves due to all of the woods.

[Stormin]

Those are all great ideas...but.. takes way too much time and effort...

What to do is... borrow or rent one of these ....you can anchor it to a spot in the middle of your property and leave it running for a while. and you won't have any problems with leaves.. garbage .. little kids and lends a really nice breeze in the summertime should you need it.

take care all
NB

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by Stormin

Those are all great ideas...but.. takes way too much time and effort...

What to do is... borrow or rent one of these ....you can anchor it to a spot in the middle of your property and leave it running for a while. and you won't have any problems with leaves.. garbage .. little kids and lends a really nice breeze in the summertime should you need it.

take care all
NB

a lil robbie?? hehe thats about 250 and hour around here plus fuel.... Not sure but its not clearing more than 3/4 of an acre :P hehe

[GT182]

Keith, forget about a sweeper. They are a PITA. What Chris has is even better.

[keith h]

With 4acres it's a GREAT excuse to purchase a farm tractor with a 3 point PTO and one of these

http://www.dcsalescollc.com/turf-leaf_blower.htm

[Kurt Zimmerman]

Originally Posted by GT182

Keith, forget about a sweeper. They are a PITA. What Chris has is even better.

Slickest thing I ever saw...

The sweepers work great, it's the stopping every 60 seconds to dump them out that's a pain. I know a guy who took the bag off of his tow-behind sweeper and rigged up a huge tarp that is pulled by the sweeper, so now he sweeps, and the leaves pile up in a huge pile on the tarp, which he tows out into the woods and pulls one side over the pile to dump it out. A few trips around the yard picks up all the leaves. If he goes fast, the leaves just fly farther back onto the tarp.

Kurt