I find a corner of the area lay tarp down use 4 lawn stakes to hold it in place. Use backpack blower to blow entire area onto tarp drag into truck and spot clean.
I charge by job but my price is based on 30 an hr plus 10 per truck load. It takes 8 dollars to dump an entire load of leaves and 2 dollars for gas. When bidding its sometimes hard to imagine how long it'll take and how many loads you kinda need to know your work pace and how much you can fit in truck sometimes its good to overbid by a little to give yourself some room.
Use Monster Power Equipment Loaders......nothing else like them available
#4
lawn mower fanatic
I do it kind of like exotion. If I'm in the backyard I use a tarp to put the leaves on, but if I'm in the front I just blow it right to the curb. We are allowed to put leaves at the curb for pickup. There is not supposed to be any grass, but everyone puts that there too and they still pick it up. I use my handheld blower and blow the leaves into a pile, put it on a tarp (if I'm in the backyard), and bring it to the curb. I also use my mowers to vacuum up the leaves, but if there are tons of leaves I won't do that because the mower bag will fill up to quickly and I don't have bags like the ones below! :tongue:
I just slap the gator blades on and bang like magic they are gone.
I have done yards with so many leaves the exhaust started a fire
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#6
jekjr
I have a kit to change the baffle under my ZD222 so that all blades are circled that eats them pretty well but could not sell the service here last year. I advertised every where I could think of and got hardly any takers. I am note rested in something that vacuums and grinds them up I think. Many of the yards here if we blew the on a tarp and hauled them off with the pick up we could be there for days and it wold cost the customer so much that they would just say forget it we will have to leave them there.
Because many have large yards or on a fixed income.
#7
D2hornets58
A leaf loader would be something good to look into. Just build a wooden box for the bed of your truck and blow all of the leaves to your truck and suck them up with the leaf loader. They suck up the leaves pretty fast and if you build a good sized box on your truck you can fit a lot of leaves. It will also grind everything up so you can fit a lot. If you have never seen one they look like this... http://www.abcgroff.com/lg/pics/giant2.jpg
A leaf loader would be something good to look into. Just build a wooden box for the bed of your truck and blow all of the leaves to your truck and suck them up with the leaf loader. They suck up the leaves pretty fast and if you build a good sized box on your truck you can fit a lot of leaves. It will also grind everything up so you can fit a lot. If you have never seen one they look like this... http://www.abcgroff.com/lg/pics/giant2.jpg
We are working on this right now! We picked up a billy goat debris loader last year and mount it on the trailer with a discharge extension blowing into a box we built on the bed of the one ton dump. We use 3 guys with blowers to blow all the leaves to the curb where the fourth guy sucks them up. We get $60 a truck load to haul away and a total job price to do the work. Minimum is usually around a couple hundred bucks, up to...well...the sky's the limit!
#11
metz12
I sharpen the blades up good on my mtd and put the bagger on and go to town. but this year i will only have 1 other yard other then my own that i will be able to use my mtd for. i dont have a truck this year so i will have to use my blower, a rake and some tarps.
I just bought a eXmark Pioneer E 48" 3 days ago. My first ztr and want to make a little extra money with it.
First i was told it would mulch or recycle as well as my Toro pro 21" mower in the summer which is awesome because i love that 21" Toro and i never use a bag Mainly cut Bermuda. i will find out in about a week when the kit comes in if its that good.
I was told that with the mulch kit it would mulch leaves and there would be nothing else to do. i would have at least thought it would need a bagger. But if it will just mulch them while not going to fast and at the same blade height when cutting grass in the summer this will be great.
