I own the mighty Noggler, which Steve Naugler built using pieces of Elec-trak leaf vaccums, a trac-vac cart, yard-vac hoses and fittings, and who knows what all else.
I am pretty sure that Steve found the performance of the stock Elec-trak leaf vacs and sweepers to be completely inadequate, which is what drove him to build this thing. There are pictures here and there on the Internet of various incarnations of it, mounted on Steve's E15, but I built a new turbine mount when I put it on my I-5, so it's mutated again.
In the fall it turns two weeks of raking,
sweeping and dumping into two days easy work. I fill the 50 cubic foot
trailer with finely shredded leaves at least three times. It's great!
If you wanted to build one, the key ingredients you'd need would be either an original Elec-trak turbine/chopper or a gas one you could electrify (I think my motor is an E12 main traction motor?) and a Trac-Vac style trailer. I have it fed from a front mower deck, which lets me poke it under fencelines and out to the edge of the stream where the ground won't support the tractor's weight, but it would be easier to build one with a mid-mount deck.
--Charlie
Last fall, we had snow on the ground by mid November, and my two biggest
leaf shedders dropped their leaves after that. I have finished the
exercise of raking and revealing the snow-ice layer below on one patch
of ground. I can live without doing the rest by hand.
Has anyone used the vacuum unit for Elec-Traks for picking up leaves?
How well did that work? (and if the answer to that is positive, does
anyone have one they would like to part with?)
I don't usually mow with my ET, too many small obstacles embedded in our
yard and a significant amount of the space is garden.
If there are other good ideas, I'm open to trying to cobble something
together for the job.
Darryl McMahon
On 5/2/2019 12:37 PM, john j casey via Elec-trak wrote:
> My good wife and I have less than zero interest in Facebook. We must have raised our kids well; none of seven grandchildren, including four teenage boys, use it.
>
> The way I see it, staying away from sites like Facebook eliminates potential problems in your life.
>
> Cheers, Jack C, Pearl River
>
>> On May 2, 2019, at 10:14 AM, David Roden <etpost drmm net> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 May 2019 at 19:37, Jay Donnaway via Elec-trak wrote:
>>
>>> Most of the
>>> discussion seems to be on Facebook these days, at the elec-trak garden tractor
>>> fan club group...
>>
>> Sorry to hear it. I'm with Chris on this issue. Find me on Facebook?
>> Nope. Facebook is just about the worst thing that's ever happened to the
>> internet.
>>
>> Y'all are welcome to hand Zuck and his wrecking crew every little detail of
>> your private lives to sell to the propaganda mills for a few cents. Not me.
>>
>> The only thing I'll do with Facebook is read public groups, and even then, I
>> do it with a firewall in place and _javascript_ disabled.
>>
>>
>> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
>>
>> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>> Note: mail sent to the "etpost" address will not reach me. To send
>> me a private message, please use the address shown at the bottom
>> of this page : http://www.evdl.org/help/
>> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Elec-trak mailing list
>> Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
>> https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Elec-trak mailing list
> Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak
>
>
--
Darryl McMahon
Freelance Project Manager (sustainable systems)
_______________________________________________
Elec-trak mailing list
Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak