Nice setup

[mdb landscaping]

check out this pic. looks convenient



http://www.championlandscaping.com/HydT12.html

[accuratelawn]

That's BIG money to haul off clippings. Forget it. Mulch!

[bob]

Great pictures! I don't bag, but if I had to, that would be the way to go.

[landscaper3]

Nice set up, for people like us that must bag thats a real neat rig. Our Walkers have everything BUT powerdumps. Next years option now i guess.

[southside]

I bag all jobs and even I wouldn't go to the hassle of setting that up. Seems like you'd be sitting up real high.

[yardsmith]

Don't shoot me for being a pessimist, but that pic is part of the reason I decided NOT to buy a Walker. For all the bucks they have wrapped up in that (nice, but overkill) setup, I can buy a backpack blower (or 2) & a new paint job for my truck.
My bobcat has a 45 gallon rubbermaid trash can that you lift off the bagger, dump into the back of pickup bed, & go do the next lawn. Extra cans cost about $25, so I could replace & go, then dump them all when done. And I'm STILL bagging at 61" cut, & at a faster ground speed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fabricating nut myself, but that's alot of TIME, cost & materials to make up for a mower's shortcomings. I don't EVEN want to know how much that trailer weighs EMPTY.
Also, if he ever got rid of that for ANY reason, he'd never get his $$ back out of it.
Nice work, just not practical for me. Too bad about the carport shelter; I figured he'd check with zoning first.

[lakegastonla]

I am sorry, but that looks like a LARGE step backwards
as far as efficiency is concerned! It seems as though the whole bed is taken up by some Frankenstein of a ramp!!
And if the ramp will lay down into the trailer bed(doubtful, where would the hydraulics go?) then you would have to unload all equipment from the trailer at each job site, then load it all back when you're finished! Give this guy a DARWIN award and send him on his way!!

[Eric ELM]

I still like the idea of using double blades and mulching it to little bitty pieces of grass that disappears. I gave up picking up clippings and leaves 6 years ago and there is no way I'll ever pick up again. I have a 22 bushel home made lawn vacumning system that mounts on my 3 point hitch on the 430 John Deere that worked great, but just sits now.

[MOW ED]

All who don't haul have valid reasons but for those who do (me included) are always looking for inventive ways of doing it.
I am a small scale operation with a Walker and I bag and remove 5 of 25 accounts but I do bag and remove many more spring thatch jobs as well as fall leafs. I charge a premium for this and the customers have no problem paying for it. I designed a gate for the front of my trailer that goes to the bumper of my pickup. The Walker backs up to it and dumps into the pickup bed. It works for me.

Bottom line is that I work for the customer in a particular niche. If I can't or don't want to meet the customers needs, someone else will. I am more of a specialist than a general practicioner. That might not work for you but it does for me.
Thanks for the pics. Happy Holidays

[mowing king]

keeping probing on his site and you will see the best leafplow i have ever seen. Iam going to build 2 this winter. thanks a million,

Eric when you got us to swicth to the double blades it was the best thing since getting ZTR's. thanks so very mulch. the shop guys now have to sharpen 52 blades a day,but only takes a little longer because the blades are not as dull. And we go thru a lot less sets of blades, about 50% less.

[cos]

Very clever. That man is a mechanical genius. I also believe that it is over kill too. All the money put into that system just so he can bag everyone's lawn is kinda expensive.

[cat320]

MDB I looked at your pics very good idea. I like the car port that you made you should be building them and welding work . Too bad they made you take it down I wanted to put somethink like that in to house my equipment.

[Guido]

I don't think MDB is the one with the pictures, I think he just posted a website he found. This guy has actually done a lot of great fabricating work, wether you agree with him bagging grass or not, you have to admit that! Leaf plow looks great and the trailer has a lot of great engineering into it, even though it may be way overkill for most that dn't bag all their lawns.

I e-mailed the address on the site and invited him to Lawnsite so he can stick up for his work!!

[mdb landscaping]

they arent my pictures. these are champion landscapings pictures. i just found them on his website.

[little green guy]

I feel very sorry for anyone who has to bag that much grass and haul it away. The whole time I've been doing landscaping I have never bagged as much grass as that guy has in the back of his truck. It just seems totaly rediculous to me. Anyway it is a nice setup though if you do bag.

[CCLC]

That sure looks like a lot of effort went into that trailer. There is a company that advertises on a regular basis in PRO magazine that has trailers set up for this purpose. I just wonder what that trailer weighs in at. It looks like it weighs 3500 pounds or more. I'll give the guy credit though, those leaf plows are great!

[Ocutter]

A friend of mine did the same thing a few yrs back. He did away with it because he almost lost a ztr going down the ramp. Slippery grass on a wood deck does ot make for good traction. A 30.00 cut isnt worth that much of a setup.