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68 Mag

12-06-2001 17:41:36




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I have been thinking of a way to fabricate a pull type implement that will gather leaves. Can anyone help me with pics or a diagram on how to build one of these beasts, or am I on my own?




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Tim Briggs

12-10-2001 21:14:34




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 Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to 68 Mag, 12-06-2001 17:41:36  
A few years ago, I bought a used EZ VAC trailer for my lawn tractor. It is a trailer with a heavy duty chipper vac mounted on the front, and a 60 bushel steel bin into which the leaves are blown. A 6-inch flexible hose attaches to the mover deck. It all in one unit. There are other manufactures: I've seen them in Northern Equip. catalogs, although they did not look as sturdy as my older beast.

It is a powerful machine, but sticks will clog the in take. If an when mine dies, I;ll find an 8-inch system.

it picks up leaves great, does not do much for the pine needles and hickory nuts so I still have to rake - but much less volume. What I would like to build is a sweeper that attached where the mover deck is to suck up the pesky remnants.

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68 Mag

12-11-2001 16:56:17




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 Re: Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to Tim Briggs, 12-10-2001 21:14:34  
Well, I've drawn up designs for something I call the 'Leaf-Bine'. If I ever get around to it, I'll post them.



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Don H

12-07-2001 15:34:44




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 Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to 68 Mag, 12-06-2001 17:41:36  
Trac-Vac makes just such a device. It attaches by a flexible hose to the outlet end of a mower deck and uses an impeller to blow the leaves into a trailer. I think they have a website. It's a simple concept. An impeller, a motor to drive it, a lawn tractor to pull it, and a trailer to load the leaves into. I modified a Trac Vac trailer mounted unit by mounting it directly to the drawbar of my Simplicity 9020 and I pull the trailer behind the blower unit. Sucks the lawn clean as a whistle and I have a LOT of trees. You might check out their website and get some ideas for construction of a device that will work for you.

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Doc

12-07-2001 23:16:10




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 Re: Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to Don H, 12-07-2001 15:34:44  
This sounds like what I am thinking about only simpler. I could make something that attaches to the output of the mower that feeds into the second stage of the snowblower that I was going to use to blow into the trailer. Thanks. Doc.



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Stan in AL

12-07-2001 06:49:44




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 Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to 68 Mag, 12-06-2001 17:41:36  
Have you tried or considered trying a mulching kit on your lawnmower? I've used one a little on a friends yard and it worked great. It mulched the leaves fine enough that they fall into the grass and can't be seen. Very little work and good for the soil too. If you have leaves a foot deep I'm not sure that would work though.
Just a thought.



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Doc

12-06-2001 20:43:49




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 Re: Building a yard clearing implement in reply to 68 Mag, 12-06-2001 17:41:36  
After loading 2 trailer loads of leaves, I figured there had to be a better way. I windrow the leaves with the lawn tracor, then chop them with that, keeping the leaves in windrows. I have been using a gas powereed shredder vac to pick the leaves up and then dump them in the trailer. It is still a lot of work. I have a 2 stage snow blower that is in tough shape, but runs okay and the second stage is good. For next year I plan on cutting the snowblower apart, making a chute of some kind to feed into the second stage, neck that down to the size of the shredder vac, and have a flex tube of some kind between the snow blower and vac hoping there will be enough force from the out put of the vac and suction from the blower to move leaves. On the output end of the snowblower I will have a hose set up to dump right into the trailer. Not exactly a completely pull behind, but I hook my trailer up to my M and use the lawn tractor, so it is fun. I hope to make it less work. Got the inspiration after doing leaves this fall, then watching a silage blower in use and the wheels started turning.

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