GGC - 69 - Attempting to Build and Use a Cheap Homemade Leaf Bagger (For Garden Mulch)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2016
- We've got a lot of leaves, so why not collect them for mulch in our vegetable gardens. But leaf baggers are expensive, so I decided to try to build one. Follow me through my thought-process and trial and error, while I attempt to collect leaves on the cheap.
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That was a great video. I love your tenacity!
Totally reminds me of when we used to rig up stuff together as kids :) Watching you do this stuff is bringing back lots of good memories :)
Lol, awesome! Next time you're in town, you'll have to swing by and see what kind of trouble we can get into :)
Good start, lots of really good ideas, thanks for sharing
Not sure if I’ve left a comment on your page yet or not but I love you and your wife’s channel! Y’all do such a great job at explaining and teaching, plus you’re entertaining. Thanks for sharing your scientific adventures!
Thank you so much Jennifer.
That ending made me smile after a shit day at work! 👍
You sir are definitely making Red Green proud! If women don't find you handsome they can at least find you handy! Keep your stick on the ice!
Lol! I was hoping someone might make a red green reference!
great ideas!!! I suspect the twigs are your clogging problem. I use a blower to herd our leaves down to the garden. You'll need a gas blower, but as dry as we are, it's a very quick process.
Excellent video by the way.
I absolutely LOVE how many of you are/were fans of The Red Green Show! It occurred to me to make reference while using the duck tape, but I figured nobody else would know what I was talking about. I've never been so happy to be proven wrong, lol! :)
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Always impressed and amused by Red Green designs even all the way down here in MD, USA. BTW didn't happen to see the old Dodge van anywhere on the place! lol
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I am giggling while watching but it's because I am wondering what my neighbors will be saying when I am using this in my yard. I love fitting and retrofitting things to work in or on things other than the intended activity----duct work--for side discharge chute. Great video, funny
Pretty cool , give's me a good idea to do something the same but maybe use some tie wire to hold the tarp. Thanks for the info.
I have the same John Deere (D series) and I got the bagger system when I bought it...The dealer said the bagger system comes with a different set of blades they needed to install to use with it called lift and cut blades...They also gave me the factory set that I tried a few years later when the other blades dulled and they were drastically different...The lift and cut set creates a vacuum that pushes the debris through the pipe much harder than the standard blades...Also the lawn bag breathes much more than a tarp would...Finally you'd lose lots of suction with that duct taped pipe.....It was entertaining though so Thanks!
Thank God, you have Paula.
Loved this!
Great ideas and a lot of thought. Have you considered cutting your losses and just buying the part of the OEM bagger that fits the deck properly? Then you will have the proper curvature and "lift"? I have a craftsman, and I own the bagger but I searched for the elbow piece and it costs about $40. Not terrible if you plan on using it year after year. I think part of the problem you have with clogging is that bagger's always bring the leaves/grass higher than the bagging system. Having the tube so low without good pressure due to the tarp being torn in several placed will clog. Another flaw is that you will have a very large turn diameter with the bag way off to the side. Buy the elbow from Deer, and make shift a rear bagger that discharges in the center behind you seat at the seat level and you will be fine.
Thanks for all the great suggestions! We will be experimenting with all this more in the spring.
TRUE Canadian, RED GREEN will be proud!!!
OK, I'm just now seeing this. At least you are persistent. You are such a cute couple. I've really been enjoying your vlogs.
Yah, I got the right bagger setup and it does the same think. I even made better blades to get more push through the tube and didn't help on the wet stuff. That's the problem, the wet stuff is just too heavy. My setup worked great on the dry stuff. My modified blades worked soo good that they actually vacuumed the ground. I made vids of the blades being modified. You going to revisit this, this year?
I have learned that leaves only work as mulch fertilizer if they have been really chopped up well otherwise they will not break down fast enough to be useful. I use a hand held back pack type and on a fairly big yard you can suck up a lot of leaves without having to dump frequently.
Diversity sure seems to work well for nature. 👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks for trying. Did you ever get a design that works? Perhaps take a mulch cover/plug, cut a hole in it and attach your piping. I'd use 8 inch slick wall PVC and elbow it at the chute off the mulch cover, then you are home free to attach to any collection container. If 8 inches is too wide for the mulch cover, you can use a 6 inch elbow that adapts to 8 inch and run that the rest of the way to your bag.
I use high lift blades. They really give a lot of volume over regular lift blades. Blades from the factory are only good enough to throw clippings out the side of machine. Oregon makes good after market products.
Haha, love the idea, but I wonder how many leaves you could have got with a rake and that pull behind on your mower if you had spent the day and a half or two you spent creating on just raking?
Not being critical, I do the same crap because it's fun!
Everyone beat me to the Red Green reference. Love the duck tape
Lol, thanks guys!
If you were to open up two of the tubes, and Instead of connecting back to the other side, connect to the corresponding crimp on the other tube, you could double the circumference of your tube. I also noted the handyman’s favorite tool.
It's the New Red Green show!
it looks like you're having fun anyways!
I love the channel! Big fan of the back to nature methods, I try to utilize as many of them as possible myself. So, I have been involved in landscaping for a while. I have been doing large scale fall cleanups to use for mulch/winter compost for my garden for a while. I have one suggestion, which could help your system here to work with less clogs. If you mow over your leaves first, without a bagger, you can grind them up and create smaller material. After that, attach your bagger and go back over what you have chopped up. This should minimize clogging in your pipes and allow you to fit more material in your bags, for less dumping. Also, try to do this when it is as dry as possible. Happy gardening! Best of luck!
What all did you use to attach the wooden plow on front? Any information I would appreciate. I'm fixing to put one on my Toro zero turn. Thx.
Leaves are best for flower beds and good for gardens, however, they leave the soil more acidic. you will have to add granular lime each year. Lime is cheap. Keep looking at estate sales, craigslist, auctions etc. I have a DR leaf machine. It has a vacuum which sucks into a bin. very good.
Welcome to the Red Green show.
I don't use my bagger when things are wet. Even when mowing the lawn I will mow without the bagger and let the grass dry for a day or two then come back and bag it all quickly. This eliminated my clogging issues entirely.
I just started collecting used bags for the grass bagger and when a bag is full, put it in the trailer and install an empty one. six empty bags do my yard so i take them all to the dump site and i'm done!
just a idea this Milton out of Nashville switch your blades to mulching blades that way it would chop the leaves up into smaller pieces might work before redoing your idea but other then that i agree with you bigger pipe different bend maybe slope upward!!!!
The Original Rake or Sweep In Bag. It's simple easy and makes the job fun.
More of a wet leaf problem to me. I wouldn't purchase the entire leaf system, but I would try to find the part that attaches to the opening where the leaves first come out, and start with that, then you should be able to attach anything you want to it, and it should work fine after that. Wet leaves stick to everything, so using the original connection piece should help. I know your using hay for your garden and you may not even be considering this anymore, however you never know when you may need to pick up TONS OF GARDEN SCRAPS, and this may come in handy for mulching garden scraps to go back into your raised beds. Bless, Sheila
This is EXACTLY what I'm thinking too, at this point. I've looked into purchasing just the part that attaches to the mower deck. It's still pricey, but totally worth it, if I can make it work. We'll be sure to post another video (likely sometime this summer) once we continue with this experiment :)
Fantastic! I think it will come in handy when you need it. Some things are worth the price, and if they save time, what a reward!!! Bless, Sheila PS Fall often has great sales and even used go down too!
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just a thought go to home depot or lowes and pick up some 6 inch sewer grade pvc pipe and some 45 degree elbows and at the end either another 45 degree elbow or a 90 degree to dump it straight down.
When you make the trailer close and 1 litle bit of chickencoop wire you have 1 hell of a idee
great video amazon sales that monster bag for 67.00 dollars and up hope this helps loving your videos
This normally how my projects go. I get it to work but not good enough to make it efficient. Always have fun doing it though.
You could have bowed some 10 foot pieces of pvc pipe inside the trailer and covered it with a old bed sheet and made a covered wagon to hold the leaves.
i just ran into ur video you have a good idea ,, but its just as easier is to get the famley together make it a party and rake leeves.
Fun fail... I noticed that the leaves in the bag were still leaves. You need heavy duty mulching blades on the mower. Get those and then go buy a Cyclone Rake... They're worth every penny!
Your problem wasn't 6" isn't big enough. It didn't clog up in the pipe until AFTER you put that bag on it. That means what's after the 6 " is creating to much back pressure, which in turn slows the air flow inside the pipe. Not the diameter or the bends you took out. You need to extend that wagon's floor space back some more to give you more sq. ft. of floor. Throw some hoops on it. Maybe some ten ft saplings, like a covered wagon. Then cover hoops over with your tarp. Have some screen or chicken wire on the back wall. What do you think. For free you could weave with small branches a back door and the air would still go through but the leaves won't. Like a fish trap, traps fish. You got this next fall. I'll be looking to see if you use my suggestions or come up with something different. Cheers Derrick.
Red Green would be proud LOL
You have a huge forest, if you need more leaves just bag not only the trail, bag 10-15ft outside the trail. Nice looking trail, if you bagged extra leaves on each side of the trail it would look even more professionally maintained, as well you get plenty of leaves. Just go thru and use a sickle or an axe on the tiny bushes and tiny trees within 10-15 ft of the trail, then it can be mowed and bagged. It would look better than the public park systems. lol
haha! that's awesome love the ending!
lol, thanks Kiwi!
It seems to me that there is a leaf collector made like a covered wagon that catches grass and leaf waste. Just be sure the air has an escape .
Repeat after me, "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess." You are now a member of the Possum Lodge. "Quando omni flunkus moritati"
Lol, you even got the Latin! Nice!
hang it from the underside to reduce the angle even more and make the tarp entrance do the same thing
Surprised only one Band-Aid and got to love duct tape red green everything
Plan B look the best:-)
Yeah, I should just listen to her ideas from the start. Lol
Looks like your answer is once again "togetherness".
You need a high lift blade for more airflow
If you “accidentally” go to step on the exposed blade when the flap is up, by the time you get their your machine automatically will have shut off once you get up off the seat.
Doesn't the metric system used in all the Canada ? In Niagara Falls Ontario is.
We use the metric system for everything except building materials. I assume it has something to do with international building standards or something.
You had the duct tape & baling twine but were missing 1 more vital item...chewing gum!! 😂
lights... trailer and a fan.
Ha..... I'm not sure your wife should leave you alone. Thanks for the entertainment.
You might be right, lol! :)
do you use your van as your daily driver ?
We were, but because of our commute to work, we recently decided to purchase a used fuel efficient car for our daily driver. We still use the van often though.
Your air flow is part of your problem.
Cover the holes in the middle of the tube, but leave small (3-4 inch) holes at the very end of the tube.
Get a 'mulching' blade to make the pieces of leaves smaller.
In my YARD, I run over the leaves with a mulching blade 3-4 times (side discharge) then pick up the smaller pieces with my bagger.
That way I can put 4-5 times as many leaves in my bagger.
Lesson learned. I'll just go buy the right bagger for my mower...
Might work better if trailer has a tail gate... And a cover haha
You're on to something. Make another version.
can i get a walk thru
Hi Derek and Paula Derek Remember if women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy you definitely do Red green proud I Loved it
LOL! Thanks David!
Remember I'm pulling for you were all in this together
Keep your stick on the ice ;)
Its the tape inside the tube
So basically it works but not in heavy or wet leaves
I'd use a 12" pipe.
you're the new Red Green. Just way more painful and more sad then funny....
This coulda been a hell of a lot shorter, to each their own
GOOD TRY. You are on to something
LMAO but you're saving 500 bucks! RIGHT 😀😀
U got such a big place but u look at 600 bucks how so?
Leonardo da Vinci eat your heart out!
u should check out Billstmaxx TH-cam Channel he built a leaf collector for his mower thing and its like super cool i like your thinking though to
Awesome, thanks! We'll check it out!
13:13 video starts from here.
buy a Cyclone rake. it does what you are trying to do.
make a box on your trailer
All that was still more professional than tying your brakes on the van with wire...
Lol, fair point :)
One bandaid isn't too bad.
lol, good point :)
Or you could buy a pull behind, sweep leaf collector and save a lot of headaches.
The video started at 9:30 just skip to there.
It take me Days not hours!!!!
th-cam.com/video/buqnnWZGyQU/w-d-xo.html
See some other designs that seem to work!
Ya ok. Nice Red Green reference BUT....a little less talk and a lot more action..lol
don't put it down. the first airplane was made with canvas bailing wire and scrap wood.
Jimmy Young
So he's building an airplane?
aguyandhiscomputer Wow, not the point he was making at all. smh.
8 inch PVC plastic pipe
Don’t pick up the leaves on the trail leave them there because they’ll protect from mud muddy is more unpleasant
But Unfortunately...
Boop
You talk to much 18 minute video and you start cutting for 10 seconds at the 14 minute mark
Lmao
To much yabbering, not enough building.
Had to quit and give you a thumbs down...way too much bloviating...
Just double the speed and add "Benny Hill" music.
17 minutes too long
Holy shit! Get to the point!
Skip to 14:14 where he uses it and realizes it is not efficient enough to use. So, its useless and a waste of time to watch, unless you appreciate failure.
MyTH-camChannel lol meanie! still funny tho
Took Edison 1000 tries to make light bulb he was asked why he didn’t give up with so much failure & he said he didn’t fail he found 999 ways to not make a light bulb and 1 way to make a light bulb. Nothing was invented perfect for use first time so give him a break at least he giving things a go
@@aarrontaylor1222 Nice " National Treasure " reference !
To do science you're need a falsifiable hypotheses.
Your scene "transitions" gave me a headache in first five minutes...
Sorry about that :(