Game on

Did three loads yesterday . Really claters when you hit a pile of walnuts.

Charlie n , probley cleans the pipe out pretty good to !! with all the nuts going thru
Wayne

That is cool, I have to get one of those.

I bought a DR years ago and it had a removable, full rear panel and didn't dump. Real chore to dump. Then a couple of years ago bought a new one that has a lifting canvas top and dumps with one hand, nothing to undo but a flip up latch (keeps the unit from dumping till you are ready) and the feed boot which has an elastic, canvas shroud...pulls off automatically when dumping and just a second to slide back into position when closing.

Nowadays they have the mower to unit feed fixed so that you can run them with ZT mowers. I was out the other morning and cleaned up about an acre in just a couple of hours.

Originally I bought their extended hose and hand held pickup for getting into places where the mower wouldn't go. That was a pain so I switched to a separate implement, the hand held leaf blower (Black and Decker electric is what I am using),blowing the leaves over into an area where the mower can pick them up....way much faster, less work, and no clogging from twigs....any twigs get eaten by the mower and move right through doing it this way besides not having to lug the hose around and connect and disconnect the unit to mower hose.

Well worth the investment if you have a lot of trees. Besides, they used to, maybe still do, give you like a year to like it or send it back.

That?s a lot of leaves

Neighbor has a hickory tree that overhangs my property. Gets pretty loud but keeps the underside of the mower deck clean.

I zoomed in on the first photo. Is that a home made rig? Looks pretty darn
good. I have two lawn vac units. This is the smaller one and is an AgiFab. Has
a 5hp briggs. The bigger one is a full size TracVac with an 8hp blower. Don't
have a photo handy. When they are all set up correctly your law looks like a
golf courses.

I don't get it -- why not just mow over the leaves to pulverize them and turn them into thatch? I just did that this weekend on several acres, cost me a tank of gas.

(quoted from post at 08:41:44 11/19/19) I don't get it -- why not just mow over the leaves to pulverize them and turn them into thatch? I just did that this weekend on several acres, cost me a tank of gas.

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Married2Allis, it will cost more than a tank of gas. It will acidify your soil so that if you want grass to grow you will need to add lime.

You are keeping the animals happy, Now they don't have to crack the walnuts. Stan

I am a bit surprised that it will suck up walnuts! It must have quite a suction.

It won't suck'em up by it's self. The mower picks'em up and kicks'em in the shout. Not 100%,but it's helps. I've lived here 20 years now and this is the most nuts I've ever saw. There are also 2 persimmon tress, but not loaded this year like years before. Never understood the purpose of that fruit.
As far as mulching them up, I made good money from people who did that. When mulching blades hit the market a lot of bagging stopped. Mulch'em up and forget'em. I had a power raking business. After years of "mulching" I'd go in and and clean it up.
This machine started out as a 1080 Trac Vac back in the early 80s.It's 1 of 2 we had on 1210 Ford compacts for mowing when we still had the sod farm. The only original part now is the motor mount.