Getting up the Leaves.

Why don't you just bust them up with a mower? I have a 1.5 acre yard, it just takes 3 passes on the mower and the leaves turn into a fine dust. It's actually done wonders for my grass too, it's much thicker and greener than when I first moved in. There isn't a chance in hell I'd spend the time to blow them!

As to the push blowers like a Billy Goat, they really work best when combined with a backpack blower. I did leaf removal with a landscaping company one fall, and the best setup was 2 guys with backpack blowers and one guy with a Billy Goat. You use the back pack blowers to lift the leaves out of the grass, and then the push blower, set about 10 feet back, blasts them twice the distance that the backpack blowers alone can. But the push blowers aren't that great at getting those leaves that are tangled down in the grass.

 

Might not have to finish the back yard leaves

HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT ,THURSDAY
WEST WIND GUSTS WILL REACH 50 TO 60 MPH THURSDAY MORNING
THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY EVENING.

 

Leaves are finally all, done, over, finished, not that I really want any, but now I'm ready for snow

 

Agreed about the billy goats and their limitations in certain situations and your right, a billy goat could help in some areas but not most. Once I have the leaves blown from the slopes and ditches onto the driveway, the hard work is done and the easy part is blowing the leaves off the drive into the woods. I blow everthing from the slopes and ditches onto the drive and then can quickly blow them into the woods. I need to blow the dozen or so culverts also. Some areas are so steep, I can barely walk it with the blower.

Only about 20% of the area is flat grass that can be moved. The rest is driveway or steep slope or ditches with culverts. The previous owner was mulching on the flatter grass areas and tried to blow the leaves off the driveway with a mover. It was a mess, ditches full of leaves, dead grass, plugged culverts and a driveway with weeds growing on it. I dont pretend to have all the answers, but you need to get up all the leaves from these areas or tt's a mess come spring. I have about 2000' of gravel driveway. Around the building is concrete where a lot of leaves collect, no way to do it without a blower.

Even in the areas that could be mulched, the leaves are so deep, it's creates a deep level of mulched leaves, that can kill the grass. I often have close to a foot of leaves when blowing.

Good news, is I only have one more last blowing left. 90% down now. Just waiting for the rest to come down.

 

Same here deep leaves, way too many to chop them up, lots of people have asked me why don't you just chop them up? there is just too many

 

Dang, that thing with probably uproot the saplings.

I have thought about getting one of these type of things, many times but you still have a lot of blowing to do, to get the leaves out where you can get at them with one of them and I really don't have any place to store it

 

Yeah, I was looking at those again last year and found a used one on Craigslist almost bought it, but decided I wanted a log splitter that would go vertical more.

Some people use their a lawn tractor and bagger to pick up their leaves but, you would be lucky to get 5 feet here before you have to empty it here.

 

oh I see, what is the CFM on that turbine deal?
You ever tried to stand in front of one of the turbine deals?

 

I bet you want to stay away from the sand trap with one of those bad boys

 

There's no replacement for displacement.

 

I'm gonna try that next year. Just use my lawn mower and mulch them up and leave it where it is, should be good for the grass

 

In our neighborhood, it's apparently a race to see who can be last to clear leaves. Did the whole 1.5 acre yard already and with blowy winds, their stuff is all over my yard now. Sheesh.