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My mower has a mulching mode. The leaves practically disapper into the grass. Which I need because my soil is so poor.
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Sunrise in the turkey stand this morning
Can always use one of these(Middle One) :
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.)
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.)
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Be careful with this approach. I've seen more than one (expensive) clutch get burned up from overdoing it.
@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.
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.
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...!!!
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...!!!
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Some times, snow storms are just brutal.
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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...
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...
Circa 1983, Philmont Scout ranch, Cimarron NM.
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Using the front end loader I moved 7 loads of brush to the burn pile, 3 loads of scrap metal, an old spray rig dad and I built for hay fields. Only took 2 afternoons...
Pics... 1) working
2) finished with this end of the shed except pulling out these old mil surplus generators (I want to save the peach tree in the middle)
3) the other end of the shed I haven't gotten to yet. It has a fence I have to rip out and there is a 2nd peach tree I want to save.
Pics... 1) working
2) finished with this end of the shed except pulling out these old mil surplus generators (I want to save the peach tree in the middle)
3) the other end of the shed I haven't gotten to yet. It has a fence I have to rip out and there is a 2nd peach tree I want to save.
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Make a compost pile, or a bin, big plastic trash can and compost the leaves. You'll be glad you did.
Lmol, is That an Un-marked Clamore behind the steps...?!?
Lol, I'll never tell.
This felt kind of Halloween-ish.
Teri Garr 1965, pic taken by Dennis Hopper.
