I like MOST trees!

There is this lawn I mow with a walnut tree just a little bit in their neighbor's yard. It drops TONS and I mean TONS of walnuts into their yard, and after a storm came the other week, it dropped even more! It is very hard to mow, because the mower bounces on all the walnuts. They are down far enough that they don't get chopped up by the mower, but if I try to turn around and a walnut is right in front of my tire, the mower won't move and I end up hurting myself. I almost slipped and fell from a walnut today. Next time I mow their lawn, I am bringing a rake, blower, and lots of bags. I WILL CONQUER THE WALNUTS!!! :laughing: (Attached are some pics of the yard)

lawn mower fanatic said:

There is this lawn I mow with a walnut tree just a little bit in their neighbor's yard. It drops TONS and I mean TONS of walnuts into their yard, and after a storm came the other week, it dropped even more! It is very hard to mow, because the mower bounces on all the walnuts. They are down far enough that they don't get chopped up by the mower, but if I try to turn around and a walnut is right in front of my tire, the mower won't move and I end up hurting myself. I almost slipped and fell from a walnut today. Next time I mow their lawn, I am bringing a rake, blower, and lots of bags. I WILL CONQUER THE WALNUTS!!! :laughing: (Attached are some pics of the yard)
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I have a walnut tree would love to have got some walnuts but the damn squirrels got to them first. I was told if you shot a few squirrels the rest will leave. It's not true

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If the world gives you lemons make lemonade, if the world gives you walnuts, never heard of walnutade, oh well, bag um and sell um. :laughing::laughing:

A hard sturdy metal rake. I wouldnt use a plastic rake as it will probably brake as your trying to dig them out.

I dont sell them i usually just throw them in the back of my truck and throw them away with the grass.

Easy to pile up in a hurry in grass like that. Get the excess with a good wide heavy plastic rake and the partly buried or stuck ones with a long handle 3 tine. Most folks here in town never do anything with them. The tree rats work them all fall and winter. Come spring they grind them up a bit as they mow over them and the grass looks poor around the trees. One fellow i know uses his golf clubs to putt them into a nice pile then picks them up. I have three of those trees, I just pick them up every few days. They can be a pain in bermuda grass. The tree rats here bury them evereywhere, and dig up each others and rebury them as well. Every tree of any size in the neighborhood has piles of broken ones under them from the little devils chewing away on them all winter. Every spring I work up hundreds of buried walnuts in my small garden that it would seem they have forgotten. But no, as soon as you plant the garden they show right back up and begin digging to find the few you missed tilling up. I know the answer to the problem is two stroke smoke and wood chips but my wife thinks she loves the trees. One fine day though I am going to cut them right down to the ground if I live long enough.

Today was the day I was going to clean up the walnuts on the ground in the one customer's yard. It was horrible! Not that it was hard.....it started out well. But then after only getting half a paper bag full of walnuts, I realized there were these bugs biting me. I brushed them off, and my leg was bloody. Then it became a lump. I got tons of those. I think they were biting flies or something that are attracted to the walnuts. Anyway, I think I am going to just deal with the walnuts....because I like my legs not being eaten by bugs! :laughing:

Maybe they were after your nuts! :laughing:

Pickup Wizard For Small Fruits and Nuts (3/4-inch diameter minimum) | A.M. Leonard, Inc.

Have not used one, but just came across this in a catalog this weekend ???

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Maybe they were after your nuts! :laughing:

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I think so! :laughing:

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Pickup Wizard For Small Fruits and Nuts (3/4-inch diameter minimum) | A.M. Leonard, Inc.

Have not used one, but just came across this in a catalog this weekend ???

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Hmmm....that's interesting! Do you push it around or does it attach to a mower??