Not Quite Ready For Fall Cleanups | Leaf Box Construction and NEW EQUIPMENT
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We are a local lawn and landscaping company based out of Freeburg IL. Family owned/operated and started from the ground up. My brother (Nic) and I (Alex) are doing our best to build a company we will be happy to work in. It has been an adventure and a struggle at times but I wouldn’t trade it for the world! We began our journey on youtube to document our company history and we would be happy to have you along for the ride! We have big dreams and have hardly scratched the surface of where we want to be.
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Some of the equipment we run:
2005 Chevy 3500 Cab Chassis Duramax, 4x4, 8’ Crysteel Dump Bed, Meyer Snow Plow and Salt Spreader
2007 GMC 3500 Cab Chassis Duramax/Allison, 4x4, 10’ Rugby Dump Bed
2003 GMC 2500 CCSB Duramax, 4x4 Meyer Snow Plow and Salt Spreader
2006 Bobcat T180, aftermarket enclosure, 6 attachments
2006 Bobcat 331 Open ROPS Buckets and Frost Ripper
2008 Rice 14’ Dump Trailer
2003 Maclander 18’ Equipment Trailer
2018 Retco 16’ Utility Trailer
Ferris Z2 52’ Kawi
Ferris FW35 52” Kawi
Scag Turf Tiger II 52” Kawi with Clam Shell Bagger
Echo Bear Cat DL10 Debris Loader
Stihl Handhelds (a lot)
Ryan Aerator 19”, honda engine
Honda Tiller
Wacker 1550 Plate Compactor, honda engine amzn.to/2r7pmQt
Target Block Saw, honda engine
7’ 6” Meyer Classic Snow Plow, E60 pump, pro wings
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Yes!! Can’t wait to see the leaf cleanup videos! 👏🏽
Coming soon 👍🏼
Awesome bro.!
Oh that sure is some pretty equipment you guys got there. Congrats on the new stuff and can’t wait to see it in action.
Thanks man!! Getting out there tomorrow for the first time 👍🏼 I saw you using the Ferris 😎
That blower is great, I like the way the flow can be controlled. Nice debris loader, too! Good job guys, keep it up!
I just did this about 3 weeks ago, same height and same size trailer, I mounted my 18hp leaf loader on the tongue on a custom bracket I made however. Looks good.
We have ran that setup in the past as well. It always worked good for us
Would like to see how you built out that bracket, will be doing this set up this fall.
Great video, Thank you for sharing, You guys are so talented, Yall do really good work. I hope Yall have a happy Thanksgiving
Our debris loader is mounted to bracket on tongue of dump so we dont have it moving. Then back dump doors open but the rear door is made like a dump truck gate so as the leaves come out the door just swings. Tio is covered with a dump truck tarp. Hose runs fown side of trailer on fender and hangs on via a rachet strap and bungee's
Nice! We ran ours that way for a few years as well 👍🏼
THAT is a nice box and very good idea.
Great video
Looks Great, would love to see the dump process with loader on door and how that works. Thanks
I have Billy Goat walk behind lawn vac it's a loud machine, but it's a little beast for what it is, very impressed with it does a great job for the small potatoes leaf business I run in my neighborhood, so I'm sure there debris loaders and bigger stuff work really well.
With your fabrication skills, I expect some truly innovative ideas coming from y'all after another 5-10 years in the industry. Nice work
We have a few ideas 👍🏼 Thanks for watching!
You guys remind me of Nick and Nate Diaz. Ufc. Awesome work. I need to build a shelf in my enclosed
Thanks bro!! Get that shelf built 👊🏼
Get at it buddy!! Build a permanent box w angle iron and bolt thru bed you'll never regret it! Will be solid and will take you 15 minutes every year to put back on!!
We have thought about that. Maybe one day 👍🏼
Great video! Having both a dump truck and a dump trailer, which would you get if you could only get one?
I'm going to build my first leaf setup. Really glad you made a video because I was planning on making it basically the same as yours. These videos will be my blueprint. Planning to get the same loader as well. Please let us know how you like it and get a lot of footage! Thanks! p.s. What tarp are you using for the trailer? Is it something I can buy online?
Ayyy go Canes! Love the Svechnikov goal footage haha
Was a sweet goal!! I’m a blues fan but all around just enjoy good hockey. Played my whole life
Nickens Lawn & Landscape LLC yessir! Thanks for Edmundson 😁
Hey I'm getting into leaf clean ups this year. What's the most you have charged for a leaf clean up? I know it's a difficult question to answer due to s lot of variables, but I'm trying to get an idea to see if its worth it for me. Thank you and keep up the good content!
Hey Nick. Did you make your own mounting bracket for your loader?
you can put a 6inch lip over the center of the door gap
i all ways put my leaves on the garden and let them brake down over the winter then i have really really great soil
Should use zip wall material, its already weatherproof and wont swell or twist, also the bigger your roof vent the better, my vent is 7ftx3ft. Good luck!
I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip! We leave our roof the entire trailer
Good video man, you ever think about welding a frame that would bolt to the trailer so then you could just add the plywood each year
Billy goats are dope i love my 18hp one
Putting this bad boy to the test tomorrow!
Enjoy it man! Don’t let ur pants get too close to the hose it’ll suck them right off ur legs lmao!
You can close that gap in the back by putting a 1x4 on the back of the door you would open second.
Planning on doing so. Thank you for the suggestion 👍🏼
Having all that weight on one side of your trailer is going to cause you problems when you go over 50 miles an hour the rear end of that trailer will start to sway back and forth and it's very easy to lose control. I had my little Wonder Truck Loader mounted on the back of my brimar dump trailer for a couple years and on several different occasions almost lost control from swaying back-and-forth on the expressway. Ended up mounting it to the front over battery box, not as efficient but safer.
Huh.. that is good to know. We had our lesco mounted on the back and never had an issue. This one is quite a bit heavier though. I will definitely be careful. Thanks for the heads up
I have a 12x7 x 8 foot tall sides , 12kgvw dump trailer. I mount an old 18hp(((244 lbsb A BG 29or 37 hp weighs 475 lbs))) Billy Goat on the tailgate. I never drive it down the expressway, but Before I suck up the 1st pile. It feels like it would cause a good deal of sway at highway speeds. I went down the interstate to get a load of mulch last Spring. No leaf vacuum on the tailgate. The loader operator placed 6 yards of mulch in the trailer a little too close to the rear of center. At 55 mph I got the first hint of sway. I slammed on brakes immediately. If I had just slowed down when I detected the sway, I'm sure that my truck and trailer would have been over on it's side quickly.
I've been wanting a bigger vacuum for the rear of my trailer. I want a Little Wonder. They seem much heavier built. A 18hp LW weighs 460 lbs and a 29 hp weighs 727 lbs, and 35 hp weighs 1155 lbs. I'd be inclined to put the axles closer to the rear. The tailgate won't touch the ground when you dump either.
for the back door just use a left over piece of of plywood on the right hand door extention to over lap the gap similar of that on the inside of your left door
also add a 2x4 going down from the cross brace about a foot then add a hose to the added 2x4 to the chute off the loader blowing the debris down into the trailer
That’s what we will do! Thank you 👍🏼
Nickens Lawn & Landscape LLC no worries that should solve all the problems :)
what about spray foam the gaps?
No chance Nick could stop grinding while you talk😉
Haha, not a chance. He only stops when his girlfriend texts him
Did you Reinforce the trailer door hinge that you hung the leaf loader on?
Yes we did. The hinge is basically the entire door
Hey Nick, do you still have the other debris loader, the Echo? If so, do you plan on selling it? I've been looking around for a good used debris loader.
Yes we are selling it. $2,750. We only used it last season
Could you just add more door hinges to close the gaps and would be more sturdy too?
Yes we could do that. Someone else suggested landscape fabric. That is the route we will go for now
Does the door not tilt with the entire machine when you unload? How do you keep it from snapping the door or also the issue of oil in the loader engine.
I was curious how the unloading will go too.
I have had the 35hp billy goat for 6 years now. Mine is on the tongue. I want to put it on the rear for obvious reasons. But the only thing I can see working is a swing arm from the frame. Which will need to be substantial bc the loader weighs almost 500lbs.
Ours is on the door so we will latch the door just like normal. The loader will tilt with the trailer
@@nickenslandscapingexcavating well I would much rather do it that way. Please take some good video of the unload. My experience is that the leaves get stuck under full load and you have to jostle that dump trailer to get them to break loose. I appreciate you taking the beach on this one. Please keep us updated and thanks again.
What did ya do with the echo bear cat loader
Trying to sell it, $2,750
why not build a box that you can load and unload from your Kodiak/topkick dump truck? you could make the sides even bigger for that than you could the trailer
That bed is only 10’. Fills up to quickly
My name is joe I own a company I’m 17 I have a 6 by 12 enclosed and a 6,5 by 14 open enclosed for mowing and open for landscaping I’m selling the open to work to a dump trailer but should I keep the enclosed or go open?
I would keep the enclosed. They are to handy to get rid of. We use ours almost daily.
Use a walker diesel with a buffalo turbine then you will be the king I have four of them they use only 5 gallons of diesel a day and you sit
I have a scag for bagging. It works well. Never used a walker
do you fianance your equipment?
Did you get rid of the echo leaf loader
Trying to sell it now, $2,750 one year old
How many hp is the bearcat?
Why didn’t you buy the Ferris’s blower
We are demoing this billy goat. Haven’t purchased anything yet
Is that a tip trailer
Yes it is
Why not mount in front? Configuration slide plate just saying
It’s more convenient in the rear in our opinion
Well I understand when I get mine I firgure in front n then be able to take in spring n re use in fall check out christty Webber she has one mounted in the front
37 horse, foot wide hose, _now_ you're talking, brothers. congrats.
nice box, too.... you might want to come up with some kind of latch system to keep those doors tight, because once you have a one or two ton brick of leaves against them, it might be a problem. same reason another top brace or two across the top wouldn't hurt... oh, you mounted the loader on the _back_...thought it would go on the front for ease of dumping.. anyway, nice build, make money, and be careful not to catch more stitches 🙏🏽🙏🏻 and those hoses are always a pain in the neck to hang for transport 😂
Thanks man!! I want to come up with a way to put a ratchet strap across the bag doors until we dump. I’ll come up with something! Thanks for watching 👍🏼
@@nickenslandscapingexcavating 😂 of that i have no doubt. you guys are very resourceful and you always seem to get things done.
Staple landscape fabric to seal box.
There it is! Thanks man 👍🏼
That 37 horse power will rip that fabric clean off there on a 7x14. It will rip 1/4 galvanized mesh off there also. That thing is blowing over 8000 cfm.
@@wudlegerity Billy Goat says that the 37 hp sucks 5,500 cfm. The BG Z3000 blows over 8500 cfm. IF those numbers are accurate.
@@ronjclm8590at the dealer they told me, when I bought my 35hp, that it was 8000 cfm coming out of the exhaust. So we used that to calculate the necessary vent size on my box. If its 5500 cfm then Im missing alot of CFM. What should I do?
@@wudlegerity when I go out and buy something. I always do my homework. At car and truck dealerships, the salesmen are often misinformed. Your dealer sounds like he was recalling the specs from the 35 hp riding blower, the Z300. I've had a few different setups for leaf vacuums over the years. My roof and at least a foot at the top of my sides. Along with my tailgate, ALL are covered with ventilated fabric. When the front, and top are full. I still need the exhaust, to fill the back. My metal tailgate is 2 foot tall. My sides total 7 & 8 foot tall, total. On the top 16 inches, I build a frame with a cutout for the vacuum's exhaust. The back door is actually just a ventilated tarp, with a 2x4x 6foot treated board, wrapped and screwed to the flap with short deck screws set through a large fender washer.
As for the misleading information. 20 years ago, I bought a Billy Goat 16 hp self propelled blower. It claimed 6400 cfm in their brochures. When the Hurricane riding blower came out, I'm guessing...in 2007/2008 ish with 25 horsepower. They were claiming 6400 CFM. From the videos put out by the inventor. His blower made mine look like it was idling. He lived in Kentucky. On his way to meet a distributor in Florida. He came by my house for a matchup. His 6400 cfm KILLED my 6400 cfm Billy Goat. I posted this on lawnsite.com. in a discussion about the Hurricane. A Billy Goat rep said that they didn't posting cfm numbers . I posted a picture of the brochure.
Why couldn’t you of just welded a receiver to the trailer and tow it behind, wouldn’t be to long and doesn’t look hard to unhook and push out of the way so you could dump. Seems a lot simpler.
Can’t backup that way
way too much weight on the rear. reason it comes skid mount. not hitch mount
It comes either way. The trailer adds about $1500 to the cost and with the narrow width...would be about impossible to back up.
Landscapers trying to build 😂😂😂