Rickochet

It's early in the winter yet. You should be looking at that picture through the wrong end of a telescope... 🔭

    Typhoon I was dead yesterday. Got a workout in Sat morning and then did a bunch of stuff around my parents house; did leaves and other yard work most of the day Sunday and was in pain last night. I am out of shape 😞

        KCee All that sounds like one day for me. Just got in from leaves front and back plus I mowed and trimmed the back. Got CrossFit in an hour. Late night too, gotta pick up Nick from his flight home at midnight. Back to work tomorrow morning at indoor golf and then I can finish off the leaves out front, cut and fertilize before CrossFit.

        Worst part is I probably would have 40 bags of leaves if I were to bag them. And I have NO trees.

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            Typhoon I have a LOT of trees all around me. No idea how many bags it would take, but 40 would probably just be the tip of the iceberg. I used to have the HS crew team come do leaves at their peak, but they stopped a few years ago. Apparently our yard was too hard lol. I need to find someone to do the majority of it again. I can handle the physical workload, but it just takes too much time. My parents yard is a snap in comparison.

                KCee I have a LOT of trees all around me. No idea how many bags it would take, but 40 would probably just be the tip of the iceberg. I used to have the HS crew team come do leaves at their peak, but they stopped a few years ago. Apparently our yard was too hard lol. I need to find someone to do the majority of it again. I can handle the physical workload, but it just takes too much time. My parents yard is a snap in comparison.

                My city will not accept anything in black plastic bags which eliminates bagging leaves. We can put yard waste in 30 gal. cans but that would take a shit load of cans for leaves. I have a mulching mower and just turn them into to dust. I just blow them out with a cordless blower to where I can get to them with the mower. Piece of cake.

                    Rickochet I have a mulching mower and just turn them into to dust. I just blow them out with a cordless blower to where I can get to them with the mower.

                    People don't realize the nutrients.....potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen..... that go back into the lawn, doing this. Instead, they like to buy fertilizer, then bitch about the costs of such on golf forums. And how they have no grass, at the same time.
                    I like bitching about mowing twice weekly.😲

                    City slickers.🤣

                      Rickochet we have to buy special leaf bags and they pick them up once in the fall… last week to be specific. The black plastic bags days are gone forever I think.

                      Luckily I have woods behind my house and I dump them down there. I usually blow them off the lawn and either grind them up by driving the tractor over them a bunch of times before picking them up or using the old pool cover as a tarp, blowing them on to it and dragging it around to the back woods. That’ll be tomorrows fun.

                      Today was a lot and the killer workout has me a bit on the stiff side tonite. Still have to pick up the rockstar probably around 1 am now

                          My mom's is cake. Just get them out to the curb and a truck comes by and sucks him up several times during the fall.

                          Mine sucks, I now outsource

                          Typhoon Sorry son, that ain't 'mulching', that's just 'mowing leaves'. And it's a lot of extra time/work. Mulched leaves disappear into the grass. And feed it. FYI 🤣

                              Par4QC No Shit Sherlock… I wasn’t looking to mulch them. I don’t have mulching blades on the tractor. What I do is blow them off the lawn to pavement and I clog the chute on the power bagger so as I drive over them I grind them up. When they are ground up enough, I unclog the chute and pick them up amd dump the bags.

                              This ways it’s 2-3 trips to dump them vs, picking up whole leaves and driving back to the woods 25 times.

                                Par4QC Mulched leaves disappear into the grass.

                                I find I can mulch them the first few weeks they are falling and at the end when just the oaks are letting go, but those 2 weeks when they really let go there's just too much. I think if I could mow/mulch more than once a week it would work, but I don't have that kind of time.

                                    KCee I find I can mulch them the first few weeks they are falling and at the end when just the oaks are letting go, but those 2 weeks when they really let go there's just too much. I think if I could mow/mulch more than once a week it would work, but I don't have that kind of time.

                                    My Toro has a mulch kit on it. I only mulch when the leaves start coming down. It has a combo cut/mulch blade. To mulch all I have to do is to clip on a plate to block the discharge chute. I can plow through 2' deep oak leaves. It takes two or three passes but they all finally disappear.

                                        Rickochet It takes two or three passes

                                        Yes that's what happens even though I have the mulching blades as well. I open the chute a lot just to try to spread them around as some areas have so many leaves I'm pushing them even with the deck set at 4". In many areas I find it easier to use the blower or sweeper rather than making so many passes. I was told too much mulching is not good for the lawn, but the guy that told me that did a horrible job with my lawn so...lol