Fall clean up

lawn mower fanatic said:
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!
 
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
 
lawn mower fanatic said:
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!
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Here is what we have to do in MinneSnowta..

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lawn mower fanatic said:
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
 
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.
 
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!
 
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