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[Snowman]

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[DrHenley]

My mower has a mulching mode. The leaves practically disapper into the grass. Which I need because my soil is so poor.

 

[Snowman]

Probably not relevant for Lenny, but here's what I found that works great.
With my mower, when you mow over the leaves driving forward, it spits them out the deck pretty much whole (same condition as they were on the ground).
I use this forward motion to blow the leaves into rows. Then, I drive backwards over those rows. Not sure of the physics of it but driving backwards will completely shred the leaves into near dust.
My yard is nearly 2 acres, surrounded by 100+ acres of woods. I get a TON of leaves. I haven't touched a leaf rake in as far back as I can remember.

 

[DrHenley]

Sunrise in the turkey stand this morning

 

[Snowman]

Can always use one of these(Middle One) :

 

[Peanut]

Seems every few years we get an over abundance of leaves. We spread them over the garden and burn them... then plow that under. It's great for the soil.

For leaving them in place get a mulching blade for your mower. Mulching blades are designed to cut grass into tiny pieces. They work on leaves too.

Got a friend who covers the discharge port on his mower which keeps grass and leaves inside the deck. Have to cut a lot slower (ground speed) to keep things from clogging up and give the regular blade time to finely chop everything. (if the grass is wet from dew or rain it'll clog anyway.)

 

[zoomzoom]

Got a friend who covers the discharge port on his mower which keeps grass and leaves inside the deck. Have to cut a lot slower (ground speed) to keep things from clogging up and give the regular blade time to finely chop everything.

Be careful with this approach. I've seen more than one (expensive) clutch get burned up from overdoing it.

 

[Peanut]

@zoomzoom Thinking about it… I have an old bush hog with a removable side plate for cutting hay…

Principle at work… just like the deck of a mower going forward. The blade cuts the grass as it enters the deck at the front and immediately discharges it or the hay. It only gets cut once.

A bush hog that discharges at the rear allows more time for the grass to be cut more than once before discharge so the grass is chopped finer.

So… a mower traveling backwards cuts the grass as it enters the deck at the rear. It gets cut more than once before traveling 3/4’s of the distance around the deck to the discharge port. This is why it chops leaves going backwards but discharges the whole leaf going forward.

It's the time the leaf spends in the deck, more time, more times cut or chopped. Before it reaches the discharge port.

 

[Snowman]

Use a Mulch Plug :

https://toolingideas.com/what-is-a-mulch-plug-on-a-lawn-mower/

Get the Right One for Your Mower by Checking with manufacturer or Seller...!!!

 

[Weedygarden]

Some times, snow storms are just brutal.

 

[d_marsh]

My view from date night.

 

[Peanut]

Ha! Cleaning up a pile of scrap metal, wire and wood beside this old shed today. Wood to the burn pile, metal to the scrap dealer. Found these ramps. Don’t make them like this anymore!

I bent the metal and gas welded them together in 1977, I think. Anyway, I was in trade school and had to build something to pass the gas welding module. Hate to toss them, drove the tractor up on this one today. Still solid but don’t have use for them anymore. Need to be sand blasted and painted. Oh well, they are going to the scrap man now...

 

[dademoss]

Circa 1983, Philmont Scout ranch, Cimarron NM.

 

[Snowman]

 

[d_marsh]

 

[Snowman]

^^^ My Kinda Place :

 

[Snowman]

This IS A Special Place :

"10 veterans who made a difference in Clarksville this year, 2023"

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