[higherground]

hey all - I'm getting calls from property managers asking me to clean up rental properties which have not been maintained in years... and I'm working to keep my trailer and equipment lean and mean. Generally Ill have to haul the debris off with me back to my burn piles. The grass at these properties is usually pretty bad as well. 2-3 calls per week like this.

my trailer: 6'x10' w/ 3' mesh sides. gravely 152Z w/ mulch kit, yard machine 21" w/ rear bag, echo 250 shred-vac.

right now I have my help pick up the cones by hand and bag them and Ill run over / mulch the stragglers w/ my Z mower then stuff the bags in my trailer on and around the mowers and haul off.

I'm willing to retire my 21".

Now I ask yall - what is the easier / fastest way to get up pine cones / pine straw that will fit on my existing trailer? (plus debris: 6 x 55 gallon cans worth of mulched cones / straw / leaves / debris per job.)

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Things that have caught my eye: ybravo 25, toro 30" timemaster thing, walk behind suck/vac thing, echo 255 shredd-vac + some fancy hose rig...???, G5 Gator blades and a respirator?

 

[Richard Martin]

I found 2 ways to get them up efficiently. The first is a common lawn sweeper.

The second is a powered grass collection unit like this Brinley.

 

[mtmower]

ve a JRCO thatch rake on my Super Z with a Hustler 3 bag catcher on it and it'll knock loose and pick up 95 % of them and the ponderosa pine needles we have. The smaller fir and larch needles it may pick up about 60% as long as there not on a smooth surface like a driveway. To much blow out then.