Recent content by JimP2014

"The issue is going to be cost effectiveness. It gets used once a year when the leaves drop. Anything else is easily handled with a hand held." I originally felt that a good PRICE point and assuming they work really well, would be $25 to $30. I would pay that. You can drive around on your...

I was not clear in my word description of what I was trying to do, but with those two hand drawings I hope it makes it more clear the one on the left is actually the one that I think would work the best just change the attack angle if you will because using stock high lift blades does throw the...

It might be tough to follow above but here is the most basic design concepts I have two different designs one is to use essentially the existing mower deck drive system to power modified blades the other is to completely replace the two blades and have a system similar to a handheld leaf blower...

Or the other idea would be the way a leaf blower actually does work so you have an engine and must power some sort of fan and that fan blows air through a tube and that's what moves leaves. So instead of using some sort of modified mower blades that rotate and take advantage of the horsepower...

And just another thought about this project so you could just ignore the fact you have 20 horsepower riding mower that can spin blades incredibly fast and basically cut through high grass or anything so you just put that aside and you go and grab a 5 horsepower mounted on your back leaf blower...

So initially my post was about the something like this exist and apparently it doesn't but my idea was take a typical flat blade that spins parallel to the ground and then rotate to last say 8 in on each side of a single blade maybe you go 20° clockwise maybe you go 20° counterclockwise maybe...

I mean maybe take the blade and curve the surface to some angle so basically a high lift blade the main axis of the blade and the blade itself let's say is parallel to the ground clearly speaking what if you just tilted it slightly doesn't have to be 90° perpendicular but just say 20°. What...

Hi thanks for replying and I read your reply so think of this if you're just using high lift blades and your lawn is basically cut but you're going over say a thin layer of leaves the leaves will shoot out of the discharge chute there's no doubt about it they shoot out maybe a couple feet maybe...

Thanks I will check these out.

Thanks for the reply MyGrassHasCrabs! I call it leaf farming. I was out yesterday testing a simple idea and that was to raise the discharge chute about 6" (so it is an angle up ) to get more leaves flying out from under the mower deck. Not enough leaves, not that I want leaves. Some years we...

Auto dock I do appreciate your comment but I was thinking like a $30 solution to try and move leaves a lot better than typical mower deck blades. For years I have used the typical riding mower with just regular high lift blades that if you make a pass say going north to south you can push...

Just to be clear on what I think would work is take an existing blade off the machine which is perfectly balanced + put it in a vise so that the star is in the middle of the vise and then heat both ends very hot and then rotate the blade because it's melted and twist it 90° and let it cool I'm...

Wait maybe what I'm saying is different I'm saying for a single blade that's already on the machine you would weld an 8-in piece on one side say the far left and then an 8-in piece on the other side say the far right and they both point straight down towards the ground that's what I'm saying is...

Yeah I got you on that you need to keep balance.

What you wrote is a good analysis of the design. My idea was first off you need to be in late fall and the lawn needs to be a very low height already. Only dry leaves should on the lawn. Also do this in batches, do not wait until all leaves have fallen, I don't think you could plow thru say 4"...