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depasseg

11-10-2005, 05:53 PM

Anyone tried/have one of these? Of course, I find it now that most of the leaves are collected...
http://www.dcatlas.com/pi-21-a.JPG
http://www.dcatlas.com/turf-p21.html

JDFANATIC

11-10-2005, 06:10 PM

Golf courses use these all the time (even to blow the plugs left from aerating off the fairways). I've always wondered what one might cost, does anyone know what the BW-240 would go for?

Cheers

JDFANATIC
JD2210

Argee

11-10-2005, 07:33 PM

Now that's the Rolex of leaf blowers ROF

thesmartfarmer

11-11-2005, 09:08 PM

I saw one at a farm show (not the same as pictured) but they were asking around 2500 for the small version.

John Deere Addict

11-11-2005, 09:21 PM

Don't they use something similar to that only larger for drying off the track for NASCAR races...mounted on the front of pickups?

thesmartfarmer

11-11-2005, 09:24 PM

What they use in NASCAR is actually a large version of a drier that you would see in a drive through car wash. Instead of just blowing it actually adds heat to the track also.

itsgottobegreen

11-12-2005, 07:37 PM

I used one when I worked at the golf course. Them suckers can blow. Only problem is its hard to manuvor around trees because when you turn the tractor one way, the blower blowes the other way. Which can and has caused an entire pile of leafs to get blowen back into the area they were blown from. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bjepple

01-13-2006, 04:38 PM

My plan is to take an old fan out of a HVAC unit and put in on the 3 pt (I've heard them called "squirrel-cage" fans before, it would make more sense if it were a "hamster-cage" fan to me). It had an electric motor and belt drive. I plugged it in and took it outside to see if it would work with leaves and it seemed to blow pretty good. I already have the pulleys I need to get the right rpms out of it with my 540 rpm PTO. It is now just a matter of putting it together. Too many irons in the fire right now.

LEOLAV

01-19-2006, 04:43 PM

I used on at the golf course I worked at during college. They could blow incredibly hard. We used them every week to blow the pine needles off of the putting greens and fairways at the course. We would blow them into the woods and then go along with the vac truck and pickem up and dump em in the burn pile out back. It was always amazing to me how may leaves, twigs, branches and pine cone/needles a golf course accumulates in one months time. The pile was regularly over 5 truck loads.