Re: (ET) Gunn lift motors, take one

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 12 Nov 2005 at 22:04, Chris Zach wrote:

> Also used the sweeper to pick up a *lot* of leaves today; it works well.

I have a sweeper too.  I tried it for a leaf clearing few years back, but 
was disappointed.  First, the ground here is way too uneven, and the 
sweeper 
tended to throw up hunks of turf and leave ugly bare spots on the ground.  
Second, with all the leaves we have (3 acres and countless trees), it 
filled 
up so fast with loose leaves that I spent more time running up to the 
compost heap and dumping (a real pain) than I did sweeping.  

Gotta mulch down those leaves.  After trying a B&D handheld electric 
blower 
/ vacuum / mulcher on vac and finding that it too WAY too long, I've gone 
back to a mixture of hand raking, and mulching with the B&D push mower and 
its bag.

Maybe what I really want is a vacuum / mulcher for the ET, but I don't get 
the impression that they're easy to come by, or very affordable when they 
do 
show up.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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