Easier Leaf Disposal

I’m not sure these are all DIY or not.

This one’s definitely DIY, but hey, it works. toddpossum’s Comment: “You should write ACME on the? back of that thing.”

This one might be commercial, but I don’t have the link yet.

Designed by the John Brackett & Co. Landscape, I think this is the biggest most heavy duty plow yet. They could sell these and compete with Ramos Rake and JRCO Inc.

Kind of lame, but here’s a Mini Cooper plowing leaves:

This gentleman uses a straight plow which could use work, but his control mechanism of the plow looks good. The ATV use is interesting too.

This is a great hack.  There has to be some adult applicable way to do this but I can’t think of it at the moment…Safety maybe an issue of course .

Update: the adult way to do this of course, is with an ATV.  The safe way is to use metal rods or wood to attach between the vehicle and the mower, although presumably they should be free to allow the mower to be flexible to move from side to side.

If you do this and someone calls you a redneck, it’s OK, rednecks may inherit the earth…at least the nice ones will.

Pond Net/Netting - Fish, Bird, Garden, Pool, Leaf (3/8" Mesh)

The 28' X 45' 3/8" Pond Net/Netting is About $55 from Amazon or It's Marketplace Partners

I’ve done this myself.  I purchased the 28′ by 45′ net from Pond and Garden Wholesalers (Amazon is actually much cheaper – see the ad below), put it down on the lawn, and then after a good batch had fallen, I rolled up the net and dragged it to the curb.  The net I purchased for $82.45 includes free shipping.  It is very large.  I had success doubling it up on the first two runs.  Now it is deployed in the full size.  I’ll report back how successful I was.

The net is very easily ripped.  However, if you roll up the net with the leaves, it does not rip.  Also obviously it’s better if it’s been dry so the leaves were not too heavy for dragging.  I haven’t tried to see if this economy net tears when rolled up with wet leaves.

For depositing the leaves I then unrolled and rerolled the the net backwards at the curb.  The net did not particularly stick to the leaves, and didn’t really rip at all in my operations.

For deploying the net, I staked it down with simple fallen branch sticks, which worked fine to keep the net from blowing away, and again didn’t really seem to rip the net.

So all in all the net was strong enough to avoid ripping when but when you purposefully tried to rip it, it ripped easily.  I will post pictures here of before and after showing the green carpet left behind when you roll up the leaves.  The net is completely non-toxic plastic. Pond and Garden Wholesalers makes stronger and smaller nets, which are priced somewhat accordingly.

Postscript: Amazon actually has much cheaper prices for Gardeneer by Dalen nets: