Home Made Lawn Mower Leaf Collector

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8 жыл бұрын

A cheep and simple riding lawn mower leaf collector my dad and I made last week to cut down on clean up time.
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@guyh.4553 6 жыл бұрын

Love it Brothgar! I've been pondering over the same idea as well without a motor assisted blower. I especially liked the small "fixes" you added. And to answer others that "complain" about your not composting the leaves, you're like us. When the leaves get 3 inches deep, you just can't mow them into the grass without burying the lawn. Besides, you're leaving it to the city that collects them and compost them. Where I live in the West, we mulch up the leaves and pack them around the grapes and roses as plant protection from the cold winters. Great job!

@crossgrainwoodproductsltd9230 3 жыл бұрын

I love this idea! And I just may make one for my trailer! Thank you for sharing your ingenuity with us.

@johnmichaelshearer2153 4 жыл бұрын

Great Job you guys! Good old Father & Son teamwork.

@irrationalmoon 6 жыл бұрын

All hail the dryer vent tubing. It's definitely an interesting setup.

@azaleaacres 5 жыл бұрын

My son is designing something similar for our mower. Thanks for the ideas.

@99lunalupis 6 жыл бұрын

That's tight! Kudos to you and your father!

@HDHhomestead Жыл бұрын

👌Clever idea! It solves my problem as we have 3 acres and I want the grass clippings for mulching my garden beds. It also keeps the tow-behind cart usable. Kudos

@moparguy37 7 жыл бұрын

Great Idea!!! my rear leaf bagger on my cub cadet fills up in only 50ft of mulching leaves

@DrRetardo8600 7 жыл бұрын

I know it's an old video but still: It's great to see that you're not just creative and engineering in video games, instead you figure out smart stuff in real life! That's so cool! I hope I'll do this at some point in my life too :D

@rosesarered3904 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see more leaves cleanup with your setup. Very cool!

@philheese1728 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool idea, a lot more capacity than the original set up. If I had a lot of leaves, I would probably make a copy of that. Good job.

@Porkey 8 жыл бұрын

Neat! :) Great idea! and it works well. The lawnmower companies should try this

@bullfrogpondshop3179 4 жыл бұрын

Great project! I'm doing some research before designing my own leaf collector to be used with a very similar mower and the same Craftsman trailer. Just one comment: My Craftsman always had problems with the regular chute clogging with grass. Many years later, when it was time to replace the blades, I noticed in the parts diagram that my blades were the "mulching" type. The diagram also showed the "regular", non-mulching blades, and they have little upturned flanges on the trailing edge (like a spoiler on a car). I could see that the regular blades were designed for throwing the grass with that flange. So I bought the regular blades and my clogging issues decreased substantially. If you have mulching blades, they will not throw the grass or leaves as well as the regular blades. My two cents... I'm leaning towards making a frame out of PVC, and wrapping the whole thing in chicken wire....I think it will be lighter and no need for an exhaust hole. I like your use of the semi-flexible metal ducting from the mower to the trailer.

@David-yh5po 4 жыл бұрын

Love it keeping it simple. Thanks for sharing this video with us.

@rae1067 6 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea. I ended up buying a similar bagger as yours and my leaves just got clogged in it. With nearly 5 acres to mow it leaves one looking for ideas such as yours.

@TheJbertolino 5 жыл бұрын

brilliant. i love this idea. i've a similar situation and this concept is exactly the fix.

@Rebel9668 6 жыл бұрын

I like your idea of using the trailer. I watched another video of a guy who used a trailer but he took the bed off his and built a bottom for the box and mounted it where the bed was. Your idea is better in that respect. What I did like about his was that he used a netting material called hardware cloth for the sides and front and rear of his box and had a hole in the front of the box's cloth for the chute. He used a 2x2 mounted to his box's frame for the chute to ride and swivel on as the mower turned. I think I'll combine your use of the trailer with his version of the netted box frame and see how that works.

@englishmaninengland1451 6 жыл бұрын

You call it a yard, us Brits call it a garden dude. Awesome video. Awesome, awesome awesome, awesome, awesome awesome.

@ozboc 7 жыл бұрын

Nice job I have been looking to buy some kind of commercial vac system to pick up leaves and sticks on our farm and to turn into compost . Just came across your video and love the simplicity of your design. I have a 20 hp husqvarna with 42 inch cutting deck.... will have a look at how I can use it instead of buying a commercial unit .thanks to your video and hello from Australia !

@stevefromthegarden1135 Жыл бұрын

I like it. I could build something like this for my mower and trailer. Would be a huge time saver and speed up getting all the leaves into my compost bins.

@tomquimby4869 6 жыл бұрын

Cool design. Exactly what I had in mind.

@stevehennings3869 5 жыл бұрын

Well Done! With Dad- Awesome!

@AnCoSt1 8 жыл бұрын

That looks awesome!

@reesecaprice3466 2 жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable and beautifully narrated

@newwavepressure6478 4 жыл бұрын

Nice job bro I made a mulch kit and thought I was the man LOL

@kalrandom7387 Жыл бұрын

Nice idea I can see a few improvements I'm going to make but I'm going to use the basic design thank you

@DaffyOP 5 жыл бұрын

i really should build something like this, thx for the idea.

@PabloCubarle 2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! I love this!!! I'm making one just like this :) Thanks!!!

@Markomyt1 6 жыл бұрын

Great idea, thanks for sharing!

@eaflo9561 6 жыл бұрын

Super idea, thank you for sharing

@dirtbleepdigger9911 6 жыл бұрын

You could make a good compost pile with this. Good deal....!

@rontrombley2596 6 жыл бұрын

I'm still working on the moveable sock. At first I thought attaching the tube to the container would work better. A bent and or crushed tube caused by turning convinced don't otherwise. Do U find that right turns will still plug the chute? I've found that wide left turns keep the pipe extended and fairly straight. The mulching blades do a fine job of reducing the leaves to small pieces and throwing them up the chute. We have had a lot of rain here this year, so the leaves are wet and I was surprised that the mower still picked them up and fired them up the chute. Two full trailers of leaves to the recycling center today. Had to go a little slow to keep from plugging the chute, but it sure beats raking and bagging wet leaves. Thanks for sharing your novel idea with the rest of us.

@salvadorosorio6877 3 жыл бұрын

Love this idea.

@chrisgore9700 11 ай бұрын

I think this is a pretty good ideal

@brianbowles1180 7 жыл бұрын

Hey Brothgar I'd make it to where you can mount or take out that box but I wouldn't allow it to slide off the back spreads the leaves to far if it's mounted then you could just back up to each side and dumb another pile but cool invention think I'm going to build me one

@amathonn 5 жыл бұрын

Nice craftsmanship. Would be cool if you could blow leaves/grass right into big plastic or burlap bags for transport to a garden.

@marajohnson190 7 жыл бұрын

great idea , thanks for the video

@stevenjrrice5694 5 жыл бұрын

I really like this idea! I have a pull behind trailer that I had thought about getting rid of, but now am rethinking that idea. Have you tried this for normal grass clippings? If you have, how did it work?

@augustreil 6 жыл бұрын

Nice job on the cheap !

@jefferyk.spellerberg176 8 ай бұрын

You are my hero.

@gunzmcgrawsworld 7 жыл бұрын

Nice build.

@rontrombley2596 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent job. I have been working on making one with my lawn trailer. The fact that you don't need a extra motor and assorted connections is a money saver. How did you rig up the disconnect for the hose when you unload? The video left it out as the focus was on the unloading procedure. I couldn't tell from the earlier part of the video how it is linked to the plastic canopy so you can unhook it from the trailer when unloading.. Great detail otherwise. Simple, compact and easy to build without spending hundreds on materials and you still get to use the lawn wagon for hauling.

@guyh.4553 4 жыл бұрын

Suuuuuuuuuure, NOW I find your build after I got done taking care of leaves. The HARD way! Way Cool! Any design plans by chance?

@bobbg9041 11 ай бұрын

You can save a trip to the curb by composting it in your back yard Compost is black gold to a garden or even the lawn.

@allanbow726 4 жыл бұрын

GOOD JOB!!

@johnnypare7426 5 жыл бұрын

So cool great job

@raymondj8768 4 жыл бұрын

get some gater blades there mulching blades like you never seen and they stay sharp a long long time trust me youll love them !

@mikemallery913 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work !

@billcenne7262 7 жыл бұрын

I just bought a couple of used triple baggers and keep switching bags when they get full. Then I take all the full bags to the dump site and I'm done! Sometimes you gotta make two trips, but that's okay, you can use a break now and then anyway!

@vikings844 6 жыл бұрын

Bill Cenne I just bought a mesh tarp and lined my pickup bed with it. Dump leaves in the back and when I get to dump just open up tail gate and pull the tarp out.

@anniegaddis5240 8 жыл бұрын

I've been looking at leaf vac attachments and they all have some kind of engine on them, I'm assuming to suck the leaves into the bagging area. But there is no engine on yours. Those leaves just go into the tube and follow it into your box. Awesome. Makes me think I can do something like that with mine... and save a BUNCH of $$$'s. Thanks!

@wildbill23c 7 жыл бұрын

The engine usually has an impeller attached to it which not only creates a large amount of suction power to pickup all the leaves and grass, they usually have blades on those impellers to shred the debris to allow for condensing the debris into smaller pieces saving time dumping the vac attachments.

@arthilliker4963 7 жыл бұрын

You can add Gator blades to chop 'em up a little better if you like. Some people have the woods to throw 'em, some people put 'em out for city pick up, some folks take 'em to a land fill.... what ever. This idea makes it a WHOLE LOT EASIER AND FASTER any way you look at it. I made one very similar to this and it works GREAT.

@Rebel9668 6 жыл бұрын

I'll just dump them at the back corner of my property and burn them there. I have a spot there where I pick up all the dead tree branches from storms, etc. in the yard and usually have a pretty good size brush pile by fall.

@rickdevault2535 4 жыл бұрын

Great idea thanks.

@Meenadevidasi Жыл бұрын

Awesome. thanks so much

@kenltron 3 жыл бұрын

Am looking to do something like this (I have the same mower). Hint: Make 2 passes on the leaves. Don't pick up the first pass. The 2nd pass will pick up many more leaves because they'll be crunched up a bit.

@dumper87 4 жыл бұрын

Now I know what to do with that old mower trailer I brought home from the dump.

@jkoravos 6 жыл бұрын

Nice job. I just made something almost identical for my (almost identical) Craftsman mower to collect grass clipping and leaves. I like your dumping system. I found that the door I put on the back isn't sufficient to dump all the grass clippings with, I end up spending a bunch of time trying to get all the grass clipping out. It needs some modifications but it's worked well for the small amount of time I've put into it. I have the two barrel bagger system instead of three, i have to dump them on nearly every pass. With the tow behind catcher I can do probably 20X as much mower before dumping. Huge time saver. Have you considered mulching the leaves before bagging them? That's my plan for when my leaves fall. I figure the collection will be much more efficient if they are pre-mulched.

@billhendrickson5506 4 жыл бұрын

Question. Where did you find that large tubing/piping I have been looking to build a similar trailer unit. But I am missing some parts. I like where you kept it simple yet it does the job.

@SS-vb7pp 4 жыл бұрын

Good job guys !!!! I wish i had a dad to help me..... My dad left when i was 3 years old.

@thomasritter3159 4 жыл бұрын

@meanjoegreen4925 7 жыл бұрын

if you still have / use this on side put 2 hooks and carry a rake to unload all leaves , other than that looks good thanks 4 sharing

@quintonbowling3620 8 жыл бұрын

Hello brothgar i love your channel keep it up :-)

@7viewerlogic670 Жыл бұрын

Good job.

@joshdigh8307 4 жыл бұрын

Great job

@gearjammer4779 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite part of the video was at the end when he said “peace”. 😂

@evchamo2 4 жыл бұрын

mine was the beginning with the rhyme

@mapuiteauzumaki5398 Жыл бұрын

Wow this gameplay looks real.

@hotpapayasalad 8 жыл бұрын

that's cool

@carlton997 7 жыл бұрын

great idea..

@IowaKim 6 жыл бұрын

So, if you turned on the mower while dumping, would it help blow the leaves out?

@goodstormsgames9744 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha good job mate

@butterscreen6694 3 жыл бұрын

Idk how I got here brothgar, but I enjoyed the vid!

@chrisgore9700 Жыл бұрын

Great ideal thanks

@Daeon108 6 жыл бұрын

Never seen this setup before in ONI. How much ore/power does that take?

@janicedennis1193 6 жыл бұрын

If you could set it up to slide on a truck before dumping it? Looks good and at a good price.

@joshuacarlin1427 5 жыл бұрын

brilliant

@TheSTEPAN76 6 жыл бұрын

Хорошая и простая идея. Мне понравилась.

@jamessommer6077 4 жыл бұрын

Fine job now try a bigger box that will literally go over the edge a few inches as it will have more stability and plus you'll have more leaves.

@THOMASTHESAILOR 7 жыл бұрын

do you have Mulching Blades on the mower,? I have the same Craftsman tractor, the mulching Blades work great. It reduces the leaves and clippings quite a bit.

@guyh.4553 6 жыл бұрын

ThomasTheSailor Chubby, I was wondering the same thing. Somebody mentioned "Gator Blades" and I assume that those are mulchers.

@byninjafx 8 жыл бұрын

You need to sell them! :D

@daryldettmer9160 7 жыл бұрын

you should make a deflector so your leaves dont come out the front of the deck .. i made one out of plastic landscape edging and used plastic ties to secure it and it worked pretty good last fall ..

@inspectormore-anonymous1259 7 жыл бұрын

Yup I just made one out of rubber for the front of the deck!

@daryldettmer9160 7 жыл бұрын

Sounds good ,

@wildbill23c 7 жыл бұрын

My Craftsman lawn tractor has a baffle, but yeah, they throw debris out from under them especially in mulching or bagging modes. A deflector to keep that stuff under the deck is a great idea.

@johnmilner7603 Жыл бұрын

To get more leaves in the box you should cut the leaves up first without the box so they are in smaller pieces then go around and get the leaves.

@dhammon64 5 жыл бұрын

Where you at? I'll come get your leaves before the town does so I can compost them...

@lesterchristensen4287 4 жыл бұрын

Wow you just saved me 600.00 dollars. That's what need to build this coming spring.

@1awallace1 3 жыл бұрын

I paid less than $300 for a 50 inch sweeper, that includes shipping. Walmart online Ohio Steel brand

@Maas_Grande 2 жыл бұрын

Love it

@sonnyblazer5504 2 жыл бұрын

New LIKE and SUBSCRIBE!!! Thanks for sharing! I found the BEST PART was doing it with YOUR "DAD"!!!

@daviddavis5689 6 жыл бұрын

What is the idea in mulching your garage floor? When winds come and in wrong direction your neighbors hate you dumping them like that.

@abrotherinchrist 3 жыл бұрын

All that great compost... I'm building one similar to this just so I can compost my yard trimmings and leaves for my garden. Cub Cadet also has a nice system, but it's $400 and only fits a few mower types. I considered getting it and using it with a chute that fits my mower but it would be about $550 total. We only spent $800 on the mower, so that's not really worth it.

@jddriver9565 5 жыл бұрын

is this a powerflow system on the mowerdeck?

@timothykaminski1632 4 жыл бұрын

Cool...good video

@user-pi6ez7qh6j 9 ай бұрын

Does it work good while cutting grass?

@022rty 2 жыл бұрын

So you just dump a pile of leaves at the curb and the dpw comes pick it up?...

@thomasritter3159 4 жыл бұрын

And during the night the wind comes up and blows that back into your front yard. Just kidding. Neat set up.

@rontrombley2596 6 жыл бұрын

How about a update on your leaf disposal system? Been a few years. Any improvements to the original design?

@rosesarered3904 4 жыл бұрын

@@brothgar Can you do more videos of leaves cleanups? Pls.

@paulschoenfelder7500 4 жыл бұрын

does it work for grass clippings also

@theeasternfront6436 6 жыл бұрын

Im suprised the deck has enough air flow/force to push the leaves and cuttings up that tube. Ive been thinking of building something like that but always figured Id need something to help the stuff get up the tube.

@larrylewis1375 5 жыл бұрын

Fan blades