Combo Unit Sucks Up Leaves

Combo Unit Sucks Up Leaves FARM HOME Lawn Mowers 31h 38 Bud Roenigk turned his zero-turn mower into a leaf eater with his combo mower lawn vac The Husky mower’s grass catcher simply couldn’t handle the volume of leaves Roenigk’s many trees delivered each fall “I bought a pull-behind lawn vac and modified it to work with my Husky ” says Roenigk The lawn vac was designed for its blower motor to be mounted on the tractor pulling it Roenigk remounted it on the trailer using angle iron to create a hanger He ran an intake hose from the blower to the grass exit tube on the zero-turn “It had to be at just the right height so its discharge blower with its 90° elbow would match the hole on the trailer explains Roenigk The new combo easily handled grass being clipped as well as light leaf pressure When heavy leaf drop hit Roenigk was ready We have perhaps 75 trees on our lot and we get leaves blowing into piles in corners he says I took a head from another vac system and attached it to the intake hose I lay it down on the ground and rake into the head and it sucks the leaves right into the box Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Bud Roenigk Cabot Penn budr@whetstone-ceramic com

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