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How many here are sick of leave's?

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  1. jtakeman

    jtakeman Moderator

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    We busted our tail Saturday to get some of the leave's up and by this evening you couldn't tell we did nada!

    I love fall, But hate freekin leaf detail! :mad:
     
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    I just fluff them up before a good wind!:)

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    That's why you wait till they have all fallen???

    I hate um in my boat and in the carport.
     
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    I live with someone that can't stand em on her lawn. So we basically do them a few times a season. If she had her way we'd do em every day. I literally have to drag her back in the house if the wind blows and more fall once we've done the round. :zip:

    Yep, Hate em in my boat too, Bought me a fancy cover for the new rig to keep em out! Aurora makes one of the best and it's water proof.
     
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    I have a cover I'm lazy about putting it on. The darn things blow sideways like 30 ft under the boat she Tue boat sits under.
     
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    My wife cares little about them. They look good raked but she's not and I'm not raking. I run them over with the mower to chop um up.
     
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    I don't get it. Who hates sick leave? :D

    Leaves galore here. Sun is out though, I mow or rake them up and use them as compost under my rhody and blueberry bushes.
     
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  8. Grizzly Adam

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    We will rake them at the end of the season if it doesn't snow first and toss them in the compost cage. Waiting for 3 trees to drop leaves so I can drop them!
     
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    what are these leaves you speak of? My trees are always green unless they are dead:p
     
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    I wait until they are all off. My wife doesn't do outside work at all, so I am not pushed into it. Then I ride the tractor and mulch them and try to move them to one area where I put them on a tarp and haul them off. So windy here I never have the lawn clear of them until next spring. They won't bother me for long. Soon the ground will be white and the leaves long forgotten.
     
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    What errrrks me the most is I only have 2 stinking trees. Its all the other peeps leaves I get. And they always stick in my fences. I mow and bag all but the gravel driveway. That we have to rake. I'll prolly get a lil wonder blower. Power equipment makes any job more fun! :D
     
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    ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME :mad::confused::mad::confused: I hate cleaning up leaves so I bought a leaf blower !
     
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    I'm on top of a hill. It's usually fairly windy here, and I'm surrounded by apple orchards on three sides.

    I just let the wind take care of my leaves. :)
     
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    So that makes you a leaf re-locator?:D
     
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    Don't even get me started on the dam leaves :mad:, trees all the way around ,. tons of leaves, same old crap for 21 years here , pick em up and throw back in the woods where they came from :mad:
     
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    When I get it hooked up I will take a pic of my fancy outfit ;) I hook on the tractor
     
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    Only
    Only 4 trees out of the hundreds are mine
     
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    I don't like them. But the 30 some trees I have? Are all under 15 yrs old. So they don't have much falling off :cool:.

    One quick run of the mower and they turn to dust (Dixie chopper runs 2 blades on each jack shaft, does a great job of mulching)
     
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    I get more annoyed by pine needles and cones. We have one massive white pine in the middle of the backyard that absolutely covers the lawn.
     
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    Actually, I look foward to blowing the leaves out of the yard. I find it relaxing, we also clear the woods completely every couple of years, 2 acres worth 100 or so trees. Wife likes the clean look, we used to do it every year but found we were getting some errosion so now we leave them down for a couple years. I blow around the driveway every couple days until they are all down, hate to see leaves on the drive.
     
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