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jCarroll

01-21-2003 19:49:04

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I'm trying to help my nephew who lives in southern Michigan on several acres with LOTS of mature trees. He mows most of the area, and wants to remove most of the fallen leaves.

His lawn tractor is a JD 425.

I'm willing to listen to any/all of your ideas for how he might gather/handle/move these leaves.

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Duner Wi

01-22-2003 12:05:25

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

I use a JD 325 with a JD Pirana mulching deck and the leaves magically disappear. Might take 2 or 3 times to really grind them up, going backwards holds the leaves in the deck longer for more grinding of the leaves.

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bob

01-22-2003 10:03:28

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

I have a 322 JD and i use the bagger and pick them up it has a blower on side of mower 50in. believe i will look into blowing them into a trailer next year as is a lot of empting. but i cover garden in fall and till in in spring Rather have natural fertiliser on garden than chemicals and if need on trees will spread there

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larry

01-22-2003 09:08:50

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

looking to get rid of leaves check with local farmer leaves are a great source of bedding i used them when i milked a lot of people were surprised i would take leaves for free

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LeJo

01-22-2003 09:00:30

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

Mulch them up good and leave them right in place. Grass and trees need food. Where would you take them if you would pick them up? In our area it will very soon be illegal to transport them to another area---- to burn or spred or whatever.

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Robert in W. Mi

01-22-2003 09:10:11

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Re: Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to LeJo, 01-22-2003 09:00:30

I'm with you!! Sereral acres of leaves??? No one seems to realize that the trees ect.. need the natural food that's there, not some chemical fert. dumped on the ground to replace them!! Mulch them! Robert

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ID-Junker

01-22-2003 07:44:35

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

I use a Agri-Fab 8 HP Mow-N-Vac with Chipper-Shredder Like the one at this web address.

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IH Don

01-22-2003 07:01:39

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Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to jCarroll, 01-21-2003 19:49:04

I have a similar problem, but have solved it. Simplicity has a fan attachment for the mower deck that is driven off the main deck pulley. It fastens at the discharge chute and provides plenty of power to propel leaves, even wet ones, into a lawn cart pulled behind the tractor. I built a screen enclosed rack for the cart and directed a hose into the front of the cart. I pull a 17 cubic foot cart with a 36" high rack, making it about quadruple the 17cu ft. It works great. I don't know if you can make the fan attachment work on your JD or if you need to trade tractors, but the Simplicity works great. For me leaves are a much bigger problem than cutting the grass all summer and I have been very pleased with this arrangement. I hope you can get something to work as well. You might talk to the local Simplicity dealer about adapting the JD.

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Ben in KY

01-22-2003 08:22:55

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Re: Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to IH Don, 01-22-2003 07:01:39

My father in law did about the same thing on his Murray rider. He built a wire trailer out of poultry wire and wood frame, and used 6 inch round metal duct to make a chute that would attach to his mower deck.
The beast works pretty well.

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Ben in KY

01-22-2003 08:19:55

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Re: Re: Ideas for handling leaves ?? in reply to IH Don, 01-22-2003 07:01:39

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