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Re: (ET) Leaves and an E-12
I tried a contraption 20 years ago....gas engine with a blower unit.
Inlet off the mower deck and outlet into a trailer covered with burlap (to
act as a screen).....thought it was great and had some friends watching my
maiden trial....made a turn and the hose came out of the mower deck, the
leaves were blowing out the back of the burlap, the trailer flipped onto
it's side and the tractor engine backfired and almost started on
fire.....scrapped that idea and was called Jed Clampet for a long time
afterwards.....so, things are engineered a little bit better since that
disaster.
Your idea is not bad but the biggest problem is blowing all that
air/leaves into a container and keeping only the leaves in it.....that's
the trick. Need a trailer that vacuums, mulches or compacts, and bags the
debris and spits the loaded/tied bag out the back all in one
process...kinda like a hay bailer......hmmm.
...Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew callahan [mailto:callahanrc hotmail com]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 9:19 AM
To: Konstanty, Walter (GE Indust, ConsInd); mbanks protopower com;
elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Leaves and an E-12
One thought I had was to take my electric black and decker blower/vaccum
($50 at home depot) and a really big custom bag for it on the trailer in
the
back. Put a couple of my 12V deep cycle batteries (that i got free at the
dump) in parallel in the weight box up front (or on the trailer) to run
the
blower/vac through a 2000 watt converter that I have, and suck the leaves
up
through a upsides down trough dragging along the front like a vaccum
cleaner, spaced off the ground a little with sleds.
The blower/vac will mulch the leaves into bits through the impeller, so if
the bag is big enough, it shouldn't fill too quickly, and it'd compost
better after you dump it.
Matt