Raking Leaves....

[Otto]

Aaaaaaaah….!@!#  

 I’m lucky in a way.  I only have to get them to the curb and the Township picks them up with a large vacuum.  I hate those screaming 2-cycle Leaf Blowers so I use a rake and blue tarps.  But, my neighbor just got a Toro electric that was pretty impressive.  Not too noisy and very powerful.  I think I’ll get one for next year.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

I use the lawn mower.

Insta-mulch.
-SW

[TalonX]

sucks

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I use the lawn mower.

Insta-mulch.
-SW

Yup same here.  My leaves are actually falling REALLY SLOW this year.  This time last year the trees were almost bear from all the wind.  I'm having to do it almost every week right now and I hate it.

[Raubvogel]

I just wait for the wind to blow them into my neighbors yard or the field behind my house.

[pugg666]

I've already filled 3 45 gallon garbage bags (compressed)

I'm really wanting to cut that ****ing tree down

[Ripsnort]

Mother Nature takes care of 90% of the leaves for us.  We primarily get S SW winds this time of year and it blows them over the cliff.

[Otto]

'Roger that' on the Mulching.  I have a mulching mower and I use it in the back where the leaves are smaller but everything out front is Maple and it dosen't seem to work that well on them.  
 
Also, if any of them are wet, it dosen't work at all...

[NUTTZ]

Mulching mower AND the Toro, took me and the wife 4 full days, over 100 bags sofar.

NUTTZ

[SunTracker]

Hey, don't throw your leaves away!  Grass and plants need the nitrogen (and trace elements) from dead leaves.  I would suggest mowing the leaves like SW does.

[Octavius]

Piss off.  I have:

1x huge ash
3x smaller ash
1x huge birch
2x maples
1x huge oak in my neighbor's yard that always blows our way.
1x unknown ugly piece of trash that will be down soon.

Our lot is pretty big for a burb... maybe ~5 acres lawn space.

The maples fell very early (mid september).  The oak is just about done.  The Ash were late october.  All in all about 3 separate coverings and 3 separate

But I also have a chipper/mower/mulcher thingamabob  It even chips dog toys.

[SunTracker]

I have 150+ trees.  I win.

[United]

Originally posted by SunTracker
I have 150+ trees.  I win.

I have a few thousand.


Thankfully its on a farm and I only have to rake the part around the house.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Raubvogel
I just wait for the wind to blow them into my neighbors yard or the field behind my house.

LMAO! I do the same thing
My house is on a corner and situated as such that if I wait long enough the wind blows them all onto someone elses property.

Lived in this house 12 years and have only bothered raking (leaf blowing) my lawn  once.

The only raking I do is in and around my garden areas where leaves build up around the shrubs and such.

[Meatwad]

FIRE!


There are a lot of communities that have a no burn ordiance have have to wait for the super suks-o-lot to take em away.  Luckily in a small town like here there isnt a no-burn law.