I’m wondering if anyone has experience with this style of lawn vac? Our new yard has a lot of tree cover(mostly maples), and I’m looking to speed up the fall cleanup next year–the leaf blower/mulcher was way overmatched this fall. I’ve never used one, so I want to be sure it’ll do what I want before I rent one. Thoughts?
Our neighbor has a craftsman. I got to try it this fall a bit with our new house having a lot of trees. Now I hate how long the blower vac take. I want one too.
Thanks, Paul. I thought about buying one, but for the amount I’d use it, I might as well rent it and let them worry about the storage and maintenance.
The rental place here I can rent if for half a day for 35 bucks. I’m thinking the same here now. But I might just have to suck up to the neighbor and throw him a few bucks to save a trip if he’d do it.
The rental place here I can rent if for half a day for 35 bucks.
Good price! 3 hrs for ~ $50 or $90 for the day, here.
Ralph, do yourself a favor and buy a Snapper mulching mower with the optional Ninja blade. Then all you need to do is mow the lawn. The Snapper grinds up the leaves like cigarette tobacco and they just disappear into the lawn. No bagging, no raking, no disposal, no fuss, no muss.
I used to do all that vac, shredder, bagging, etc. We have maple trees that produce leaves by the millions. When I was shredding them, I would produce 20 or more bags of SHREDDED leaves per year.
Now I just slice-n-dice with the Snapper. Game over. Sometimes I have to do the lawn twice over because the leaves are so deep it’s difficult to get them chopped in one pass, but so what? Still beats having to bag and dispose of all those leaves and/or store and maintain an extra piece of equipment.
Grouse
Basically I’m going to echo Grouse.
When we use our Yardman with a bag it fills up way too fast. I don’t like leaving that much mulched leaves in the yard. Seems like the grass doesn’t grow as well.
It’s a PITA, but we’ll mulch without the bag, then go back over it mulching again and bagging.
I’m also not going to buy another piece of equipment for the lawn. (‘course my lawn looks like crap since it was dug up the last time.)
I haven’t used a Snapper with the Ninja blade though.
My Toro with a mulching blade cleans up the yard just fine. Just might have to mow over it a couple of times, and try to keep up as the leaves fall. I refuse to rake. Hate hate hate raking.
Boy, you guys sure get off topic. I have a good mower. There is no way that a residential, walk-behind mower will handle the amount of leaves I have/had.
Looking for other options.
…store and maintain an extra piece of equipment.
Hence, the rental!
Boy, you guys sure get off topic. I have a good mower. There is no way that a residential, walk-behind mower will handle the amount of leaves I have/had.
Looking for other options.
Wow. Post a pic.
I’ve done leaves that were stacked 6 inches deep with the Snapper.
The vac won’t work for leaves that deep. You just end up pushing them around like a snow plow.
Grouse
Up at my cabin, it’s all mulch/mow until the leaves are gone. At home here in St Paul, it’s a mix of bagging and mulching. (Bag one week, mulch the next) I could probably get away with all mulching here in the city if all my neighbors leaves did not constantly blow over into my yard!
-J.
Please tell me you didn’t just say raking?! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I’m a full time raker and a part time mulcher. That Billy Boat looks sweet. Getting them into bags, still not so much. At least at the cabin we can rake them onto a sheet then transfer to a trailer. That beats bagging big time. I have 8 bags of leaves in the drive now waiting for their new home.
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