Fall clean up

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Today I did a huge leaf clean-up AND mowing....in one! The grass was super high, and if that wasn't enough, in the backyard there was a foot of leaves on the ground. I remembered they have lots of roots and rocks in their backyard, so I was not going to just suck it up with my mower, because I would have hit a big rock!! So I used my blower and made big piles on the end of the lawn that ended up being 2 feet tall! Then I raked them on to a tarp and drug them out to the street. Then I went over the lawn and bagged the rest of the leaves. It took awhile, but look at all the leaves I got. The far pile in the 1st picture is 8 feet long and like 3 feet tall!
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Nothing worse than a buried suprise in the leaves!

 

[slammed]

Nothing worse than a buried suprise in the leaves!

Yea I hit a block that my neighbor tossed in the edge of a leaf pile today. Good thing the deck pushed it on over the bank.

 

[Acculawnsystems.com]

How many man hours did it take and what did you charge?

 

[Quality lawn Service]

The only problem I have is that I don't have much time. I'm 16 and have 15 seasonal fall clean up accounts. Plus we do not have pick up on the street. What I have done for this year is 2 guys 2 backpack blowers "sthil of-course" 1 sthil blower-vac for window wells and flower beds and 2 5 hp chipper shredders. We blow them in a pile then chip them up and I can turn 2 full properties leaves into a 4x8 trailer with 3 foot sides. I then take them to a place that chargers $2 a yard so they charge me about $7 to dump it. I charge average around 400 per season for fall clean up

 

[ringahding]

They come around maybe every 2 weeks I would say. It is definitely convenient! But in 2 weeks, you can create a super big pile! Sometimes it stretches the whole length of your property!

Here is what we have to do in MinneSnowta..

[video]http://s935.beta.photobucket.com/user/ringahding/media/030.mp4.html[/video]

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Here is what we have to do in MinneSnowta..

[video]http://s935.beta.photobucket.com/user/ringahding/media/030.mp4.html[/video]

That is pretty cool!

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

The municipal leaf truck came through our area today so I took some pictures....it sure is dusty!!

 

[Lohman mows lawns]

The municipal leaf truck came through our area today so I took some pictures....it sure is dusty!!
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Ur lucky you have one we don't I have to hual it all home and burn or take it up our cabin and dump it

 

[ACDDURHAM]

If your municipality or county does that, lucky you. That was cool. We can't do that here by leaving it on the curb, we'd be fined ! Thanks for the video.

 

[metz12]

I rake out the sides of like the house and sheds whhere i cant get with my mower and bag them. Also I like to use the blower and spread the leaves out a bit so im not clogging up my mower deck and burning belts!