Getting up the Leaves.

It's that time of year again, spent the better part of Saturday with my oldest daughter helping getting them up.

I have about 3 acres that need to be cleared of leaves and use a couple of backpack blowers and do it 3 or 4 times during the fall just to keep up with it. I have an insane amount of leaves. Not complaining, it was a great day to be outside and part of the deal having a place in the woods.

Here's a shot when I was half done....



Here's a couple that I just cleaned up... All was covered in deep leaves before I started (just did it 2 weeks ago). Oaks are coming down pretty good now.

 

Beautiful place you got there

 

I couldn't fathom using a blower for all that. I use the blower attachment for my stihl kombi unit and blow everything away from the fence in the backyard then suck them up with the mower and dump em. Front is the same but no fence. I try to maintain it because waiting too long makes it very tedious.

You should get one of the Billy goat or little wonder blowers that you push. Insane amount of power.

 

Too bad you can't compress leaves into good burning fire logs!

 

Your property looks great. I used to battle the leaves for a month every fall, but now I just wait for them all to fall and mulch them.

 

I hear you man, I have tons of leaves too.
The Husky 150bt does it again.
Front and side yards I use the blower, In the backyard, I chop them up into rows with the tractor then, I have a shoot I hook on that I made from duct work, I put a hood deal on my little dump trailer then blow them all in there and dump them in the woods

 

What happens if you leave them over the winter? Do they mat down and smother the grass?

 

My main concern are the leaves that have the potential to blow onto the driveway or anywhere else where they could be tracked into the house. Beyond that, I don't bother with them and parts of the yard have leaves all winter long. Those darn oaks will still be dropping leaves in February though.

 

Yeah, they will kill the grass if you don't pick them up

 

Yeah you're thick with em' alright. Didn't even know there was a driveway there. Keep thinking I should get one of those push blowers. Small blowers are over matched sometimes, especially when stuff gets wet.

 

Backyard is worse.
I've seen those push blowers on YouTube looks like they're pretty powerful.
My 150 Bt does a good job though, it will blow wet leaves, sticks, leaves and grass stuck to the driveway, it will roll a 5 inch round across the grass

 

Wouldn't that be the coolest deal! Or maybe pellets? Wouldn't surprise me that we hear of someone else marketing a green leaf wood log or pellets. Just remember you heard it first on FHC....

I have used and looked at many options, not to say mine is the best.. Push blowers work best on flatter large grounds, hills, ditches soft grounds and obsticals around buildings etc.. are challenged. The biggest backpacks are pretty stout.
Each situation is different for sure.

Nice work HD, I remember your post from last fall! That Husky makes short work of all those leaves doesn't it!?
Remember growing up, my dad would make me rake the leaves and either bag them or if I was lucky we had a burn pile.
No one had blowers....

 

Hope the wind doesn't bring them back

 

Not even funny WC.....!!

 

Yeah that backpack blower really kicks butt, just got it last Year should have bought one of those a while back.
I read somewhere about a guy, he had access to a lot of small boxes, he would fill them up with leaves and he made a heavy steel tamper type thing, he smashed the leaves down in the boxes close them up and burned them in the stove.

 

It's supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow once they get wet they stay there pretty good

 

Our farm is right next to the woods. I can't win the battle with Mother Nature

 

I don't bother with them anymore. The rider chops them up. The wind carries some off. I rake out the gardens, that is all. However, I don't have any one place in the lawn that is more than 25 ft wide. The mulcher on the mower is the best I can do at this stage.

 

Yep, all got blown to the woods..