[LLigetfa]

The grass is long, it rained 4 inches yesterday, and the leaves are falling big time. Normally I stay on top of the leaves and mulch mow them and sweep but I think I'm beyond that now.

Sweeping up wet leaves from long grass is like trying to clean poop from a blanket. I'm going to try none the less, then I'll mulch and sweep again. I doubt it will look good but probably can't look worse. Maybe if can get some of it picked up it will dry enough by tomorrow to give it another go.

 

[tranks]

i raked yesterday and then mowed, then raked again. i have a side exit, so i just keep doing circles until everything was in one big pile. i only have about 1/3 of an acre though.

how many acres are you doing? do you have a dethatcher you could drag in front of the sweeper?

 

[JMoe]

I hear you. It was dry enough that I mowed yesterday and pulverized the leaves as best I could. It did OK. I'd love to get the mulch kit for my fab'd 44", but the darn kit is like $100 and I believe once it's on, it's on. It's not a removable plastic plug.

Joel

 

[craigbaill]

It is like 88 degrees here and dry as heck. My tree drops its leaves LAST of all the trees around here so I am sitting here waiting to mow,mulch or otherwise use my tractor. I was able to mulch a pile of wet leaves last year that was higher than my footrest and it did just fine. You might just have to go at it twice like you said.

 

[Aksarben96]

If you can wait for a dry day and then mow the combination and then let it dry I m thinking you should be able to sweep all of it just fine and with the mix it should compost very nicely, as the grass will supply the moisture and the leaves even chopped will help with trapping some air toi help the little critters break it all down .

 

[LLigetfa]

Well... the sweeper did OK... better than I had expected. With how wet the leaves were, I was getting good size loads with fewer trips to dump, not like when the leaves are dry. It was so wet in places I was shooting up rooster tails! Good thing the hopper on the sweeper isn't watertight.

I should put my house up for sale now... I could list it as waterfront property.

I'm going to wait until tomorrow to mow. Maybe the lake will recede a bit.

 

[forkz]

hot n dry here the weatherman says rain on the way we need it have not mowed any grass n about 3 weeks no leaves down yet plenty of pine straw n pinecones

 

[engine2quarters]

Rain on Tuesday, they say. Mowed by pushmower on Thursday, and my legs feel it. Lawn still has alot of brown shredded wheat in it, and leaves are still up there.

Ran the mower with the new 'gator' blades last weekend. Chipped everything up into one waste basket full, now in the compost pile. Can't wait for the 'leaf dump' to see how they will really work.

Don't have a pull sweeper, no place to store it when not in use. But that's no real reason, is it, not to have one.

We're still mowing dirt in other places.

 

[LLigetfa]

I've got 2 acres to mow and lots of trees so my compost pile gets to be about the size of a full size car after it has been compacted. Before I got the sweeper I used to bag with the push mower. I would park 2 wheelbarrows in such a way that I could get from one to the other by the time the bag was full.

Because I fertilize the lawn, the trees in my yard are still holding onto their leaves. Some of the trees around the perimeter have dropped much of their leaves and the wind blew them into my yard.

 

[lawnguy]

rain? whats that? Here in CT we have had the direst summer early fall in as long as I can remember. I over seeded a week ago and and runnign around with the sprinkler hoping not to run the well dry.

Leaves have started to fall a bit. So far the Snapper with the mulch kit has been easily able to take care of it. I need rain !

 

[LLigetfa]

Yesterday morning there was frost and so the leaves were falling big time. Last weekend I dropped the mower setting one notch so as to make sweeping easier and to help dry up the soaked clay.

Again, I had so many leaves that I had to sweep before mowing yesterday. As said before, I usually mulch up the leaves first so that I can more in the hopper and fewer trips to my compost dump. Sweeping early in the day when the leaves are still damp with dew is the next best way to get good size loads.

I dropped the mower down to the lowest setting before mowing yesterday and the yard looked real good. The air was perfectly still and there was not a leaf anywhere to spoil it.

This morning, I awoke again to more frost on the lawn and a light breeze. If only it were a stiff breeze, what with the grass cut short, it would blow the leaves away but alas, it looks like I didn't do anything yesterday.:crybaby: