All these guys have to do is call you and say, “Stan. We have some toys for you to play with.” And you say, “I’m there.” But I’m kidding. I admire what you do, helping out some local guys and using the reach of your site to give them a boost. Not too many people would do that, so more power to you and God bless.
Where is the LOVE IT button!!!! Like is just not good enough!!!! I was thinking I would end up dreading leaving the large birch in my 2.5 acre lawn cut I just did, but with a bit of creativity and fabrication I now think it will just be an excuse for more seasonal outdoor fun!!! This is so awesome on so many levels! Thanks for the post!
Really enjoyed watching all the neat tools in action. I'm slowly learning that the right tools are always a good investment, and even make grunge job's a pleasure.
Brings back memories of doing clean ups at my old job. I miss doing lawn care. Was by far one of my favorite jobs I've done. N this is pretty cool, I can think of a few jobs we did where this would have helped a lot. Great job, you should sell the design. I bet people would buy it.
Who else out there hates it when they do a great job of raking their leaves and their neighbor does NOTHING and in the first Highwind it all ends up on your yard?
@@ecf6760 shhh quit giving them ideas when my family and I first moved to my house it was us and 3 other houses there are now 13 houses on my block nearest one right across the road
I'm with ya Ed, the wi d stops, or not it's going back, or out in the street to keep moving, I don't have a tree in my yard, my neighbors have maples, I used to bag the leafs, why should I spend money on recycling bags,
Very ingenious! I had a house that had mostly oaks that held their leaves until just before the first big snow. I hated having to do the leaf cleanup of wet matted leaves in the spring if I missed the tiny fall raking window
@@cycleandhide it doesn't need 6" to 2 feet of leaves. that's plant warfare preventing seeds from making soil contact and poisoning/conditioning the soil so that nothing else can grow there except that type of tree. an inch or two of leaves will help insulate grass from a hard deep freeze, but leaving that wet leaves there under the snow will kill the grass by cutting of air from reaching it and keeping it all fungus rich and acidic poisoned top cover. UofMinn land management program teaches such things as well as the ag program and horticulture program. your soil biome should be made up of what you want growing in that soil, not of what you don't want. the difference between a weed and a plant is a plant is what you want growing there, anything you don't want growing there is a weed even if it's a fire maple or a rose or kentucky blue in a pine forrest.
Impressed by a guy who’s adult kids will not return home to visit a 58 yr old dad and 52 yr old mom in the fall.. 😁 We have 3/4 acre and same Amount of leaves. We use 2 backpack blowers, a large tarp, 3 adults,3 rakes and dump the tarp full off the edge of a steep ravine. This has been the most fascinating video to me of all of Stan’s. I am sending it out to the family around the country.
i can imagine having some air barriers. maybe using a light mesh that will still catch leaves but let the wind through, that you could line up along your work zone, to minimize leaf into the road issues. maybe have 6-8 or 10 foot sections that could easily be set out along the job site, or to help contain leaves in a certain spot for collection like next to the leaf vac. then each panel could be set on the side of a work truck in custom brackets and each of the panels have their own mechanism to stand them up on their own. so like two folding legs with wide foot pads for stability on maybe uneven ground, and a light aluminum frame with adequate supports. then i think depending on their overall length, or whatever was most convenient and efficient, at least three to six of them could fit on a truck or in a truck bed in their own spot. i was thinking they would be very nice for a homeowner too, for helping them contain piles as they went so instead of having to chase around so many stray leaves when blowing, you could funnel them where you want them to go with such panels.
@Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek Yes municipalities across the country have been using sidewalk tractors with a leaf pusher for decades on roads to clean up leaves.
I love thoses wheeled leafblowers my scag I have is awesome I think it is 11hp Honda was over 2 grand but worth it and the look on the dealers face when he found out I just got it for doing my yard priceless lol
They do, but their vac needs to be turned to where the inlet is parallel to the curb, this way straight shot/vacuuming instead of intake hose bending at a 90°, restricting the flow of leaves and blocking it.... especially on wet leaves.
Great job fellas! Remember raking leaves long ago. Never ending process. Always someone in the neighborhood that wouldn't clean their leaves. Then we'd hope for a good snow to freeze them on that property!
Just to give you a heads up put broom heads on the bottom edge bolted to a p 3 inch angle across the back you won’t leave one leave when it’s very forgiving over roots ,I have five of them ,go broom not conveyor belt
When I was a kid, a long time ago, growing up on the Jersey shore, the town had a leaf vacuum trailer blowing into a dump truck. The top of the trailer was all expanded steel. It would rain down leaf particles but so what. It worked well and breathed well too
Wonder if they can market that, or at least collect some royalties! Although, there's probably some offshore group, watching videos & stealing ideas that will be here prior to next season... Nice work Stan! & Kool playtime, haven't been able to launch into leaf piles for some decades, lol! Thanx !
The leaf bulldozer is great. The shredder trailer is great too. What do they do with a full trailer? I guess they could burn it or reuse it for mulch? Beats the heck out of raking.
Hey Stanley there’s a lawnmower called Luma it’s self driven lawnmower that attaches itself to a stock when it runs low on battery do you want to look it up it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen it’s sort of cool like you Stanley love your show
Greet video Stan. Clever pushing device on the Toro. Saves lot of time and fuel. Noticed they had a little walk behind Toro could almost replace that with a billy goat wheeler vacuum for the tidying up bits? Just a thought. Better bagging than a mower and bigger bag.
Nice ingenuity love the fabrication do we ever grow up just had to jump in the leaves look like fun we're there multiple trees leaves or just one breed it looked like Maple leaf maybe sycamore an liquid Amber for me these days sycamore is the worst I love the tree I love the color gives off but age has made my hay fever terrible it never bothered me before I have to wear a mask every time I weed whip blow it do a pile love the tree I hate the fever
That's some cool toys But see I did bulk leaf clean up the first year I moved to Indiana.. I said to myself that's the last time.. So I built myself a shoot blocker. I had to cause I purchased a mulching kit for my xt1 52" cub and it was plastic.. It broke.. So even when the grass is dieing I still go out once a week and mulch leaves. If the the leaves are really bad I go over it twice. And it looks like some one came and sucked the leaves up..
I get most of the leaves from three big oak trees. Over 35 years, I've developed some pretty decent methods of cleaning these up. 1. An ordinary rake to gather leaves. 2. A tarp on which to move leaves, and then slide them to their destination 3. A compost pile which is the destination for the leaves. No machinery required, and it's really pretty fast and easy. One advantage of this is that there is very little actual work involved ---that is LIFTING of material. nIt's mostly pushing the leaves around with the rake, which moves a lot of leaves and doesn't take much work (in the sense of physics) to do.
I live in Ocala Florida, do you feel that fall came early for you? My weather is f-ed this year since the hurricane and weather changes. My yard isn't doing what's normal. I've only got a small 14 acre farm
"Necessity is the mother of all inventions" he needed a way to move massive piles of leaves so he invented it. That is absolutely awesome. He better patent it before a big company sees it and steals his idea!
This isn't something new or revolutionary. Leaf pushers have been in use by Major municipalities across the US for decades to clean leafs up off of streets.
This leaf pusher is a cool idea and very lightweight well put together. I saw one from the other guy in Iowa husband and wife team? Them using a purchased leaf pusher and it tends to clog up?
It’s really true with the right tools you can take tons of hours off of a job that doesn’t mean you can do it for cheaper if the cleanup was worth $500 because you can do it in an hour does it mean it should be $150
I built one of these a couple years back it does save a ton of time but I wish mine was powered up and down as well I just have a pin really cool design with power up and down
I have a parking lot sweeping business and do commercial and hi tech buildings in San Jose. We use Masco sweepers but so many leaves we just use the head (part that sucks all the debris) as a plow and make mounds of leaves. Got to check the screen doesn’t plug up or it will not suck up anything.
I am not sure if I missed it if there was reasoning behind it but if the leaf dozer had rubber strips along the bottom it would probably get more leaf material.
If a guy would put a chunk of conveyor belting on the bottom of that thing and round the outside corners you could probably get a good clean with out the damage and get more traction
All these guys have to do is call you and say, “Stan. We have some toys for you to play with.” And you say, “I’m there.” But I’m kidding. I admire what you do, helping out some local guys and using the reach of your site to give them a boost. Not too many people would do that, so more power to you and God bless.
Lol it’s definitely a bit of both 😂👍 thanks for the support though man & glad you see me. Means more than you know
@@Dirtmonkey yes sir, nothin but respect for what you do for ppl and how you treat them
@@Dirtmonkey 9999
Great idea. Awesome👍👍. Leaves are the best fertilizer.
Jamal, Jared and for sure Mr. Shifu are the best in town …. I miss working with you guys
Always good to see good old fashioned American ingenuity and pride.
Hard working Kats, tools, and innovation. This is rad.
They Definitely Got It All Figured Out For Efficiency 😳 Great Videos 👍 And As Always GOD Bless And Stay Safe 😁
Thanks man & you too 👍😁
Where is the LOVE IT button!!!! Like is just not good enough!!!! I was thinking I would end up dreading leaving the large birch in my 2.5 acre lawn cut I just did, but with a bit of creativity and fabrication I now think it will just be an excuse for more seasonal outdoor fun!!! This is so awesome on so many levels! Thanks for the post!
Really enjoyed watching all the neat tools in action. I'm slowly learning that the right tools are always a good investment, and even make grunge job's a pleasure.
You’re getting it 👊
Brings back memories of doing clean ups at my old job. I miss doing lawn care. Was by far one of my favorite jobs I've done.
N this is pretty cool, I can think of a few jobs we did where this would have helped a lot. Great job, you should sell the design. I bet people would buy it.
Who else out there hates it when they do a great job of raking their leaves and their neighbor does NOTHING and in the first Highwind it all ends up on your yard?
I'm with you. I'm down wind from the laziest neighbor with the most trees. Every year I spend hours cleaning up his leaves in my yard.
That’s the life of having close neighbours shoulda bought a house with further away neigbours
As soon as the wind stops I'm blowing it right back.
@@ecf6760 shhh quit giving them ideas when my family and I first moved to my house it was us and 3 other houses there are now 13 houses on my block nearest one right across the road
I'm with ya Ed, the wi d stops, or not it's going back, or out in the street to keep moving, I don't have a tree in my yard, my neighbors have maples, I used to bag the leafs, why should I spend money on recycling bags,
Pushing mountains of leaves compared to just push with a zero turn, great idea I'll pass it along 👊✌️
Stan you did it again. Another video I really in joyed watching. Keep them coming down the pipeline. 👍
Love to hear it! Thank you kindly
Awesome job Brandon!
This is clearly from a previous year, leaves here in southern Wisconsin are barely turning now and the Twin Cities area is not that far ahead of us.
.. .and then?
Very ingenious! I had a house that had mostly oaks that held their leaves until just before the first big snow. I hated having to do the leaf cleanup of wet matted leaves in the spring if I missed the tiny fall raking window
nature is why that window is so short, it's unpleasant to remove but the soil needs leaf litter during the winter to protect your soil biome.
@@cycleandhide makes me feel better. Viva la Biome!
@@cycleandhide it doesn't need 6" to 2 feet of leaves. that's plant warfare preventing seeds from making soil contact and poisoning/conditioning the soil so that nothing else can grow there except that type of tree. an inch or two of leaves will help insulate grass from a hard deep freeze, but leaving that wet leaves there under the snow will kill the grass by cutting of air from reaching it and keeping it all fungus rich and acidic poisoned top cover. UofMinn land management program teaches such things as well as the ag program and horticulture program. your soil biome should be made up of what you want growing in that soil, not of what you don't want. the difference between a weed and a plant is a plant is what you want growing there, anything you don't want growing there is a weed even if it's a fire maple or a rose or kentucky blue in a pine forrest.
Stanley,
A Freeze Frame of you Mid-Air going into those leaves would look great on my Fall Post Cards👊🏼🤣🍁
Fall comes fast out there. I’m just north on NYC. Barely changing color here.
Up north here in MN the colors are changing fast
Impressed by a guy who’s adult kids will not return home to visit a 58 yr old dad and 52 yr old mom in the fall.. 😁
We have 3/4 acre and same Amount of leaves.
We use 2 backpack blowers, a large tarp, 3 adults,3 rakes and dump the tarp full off the edge of a steep ravine.
This has been the most fascinating video to me of all of Stan’s.
I am sending it out to the family around the country.
Happy to help! Thanks for sharing
Those are some hard working guys.
Indeed 😊
i can imagine having some air barriers. maybe using a light mesh that will still catch leaves but let the wind through, that you could line up along your work zone, to minimize leaf into the road issues. maybe have 6-8 or 10 foot sections that could easily be set out along the job site, or to help contain leaves in a certain spot for collection like next to the leaf vac. then each panel could be set on the side of a work truck in custom brackets and each of the panels have their own mechanism to stand them up on their own. so like two folding legs with wide foot pads for stability on maybe uneven ground, and a light aluminum frame with adequate supports. then i think depending on their overall length, or whatever was most convenient and efficient, at least three to six of them could fit on a truck or in a truck bed in their own spot. i was thinking they would be very nice for a homeowner too, for helping them contain piles as they went so instead of having to chase around so many stray leaves when blowing, you could funnel them where you want them to go with such panels.
You could make them out of PVC and fill the bottom parts of the frame with sand for some weight. I like the idea.
Is this from last year?
Great video cool leaf plow
Thanks man!
Put you a strip of conveyor belt on the bottom edge of the rack, shouldn't scrap the dirt too bad.
Ventrac uses a brush.
Those guys were pretty cool! Maybe do a collaboration with them Great video Stan!
Nice one Stan. 👍👍🏴🏴
Great video !
Thanks Andy 👊
@Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek Yes municipalities across the country have been using sidewalk tractors with a leaf pusher for decades on roads to clean up leaves.
Very awesome!!! Thank you Stan!!!
Glad ya think so too 😎
Those guys are So Cool!!! McGyvers!!! Great Attitudes and would fit right in with your team!!!
It’s the leaf dozer! That’s awesome!
Wow our leaves just started to change color up here in Maine where I’m at!! Hello Stanley from Mid coast Maine!!
Howdy 😊
Wow !! There's a lawn under all those leaves. Cool invention.. Working smarter not harder
You know it!
I love thoses wheeled leafblowers my scag I have is awesome I think it is 11hp Honda was over 2 grand but worth it and the look on the dealers face when he found out I just got it for doing my yard priceless lol
Nice score 👊👊
Great equipment
😁👊
What a great stress reliever jumping in them leafs
Leaf jumping therapy. It’s a thing 😂
Very nice set up , that’s the only way to do fall clean up . 👍🏻
Precisely 😄
Wow,that thing should really help rake in the money!! Thanks 🙃.No, really neat idea 💡.
Spencer Lawn Care has a great Leaf loader that thing is a beast
They do, but their vac needs to be turned to where the inlet is parallel to the curb, this way straight shot/vacuuming instead of intake hose bending at a 90°, restricting the flow of leaves and blocking it.... especially on wet leaves.
Great idea. necessity is the mother of invention. suggestion add steel rake tines on bottom if leaf plow. might work better with wet leaves.
HAHAHA! What's better than jumping into a pile of leaves!? Thanks for the laugh! Have a great weekend, Brother. God bless.
Great job fellas! Remember raking leaves long ago. Never ending process. Always someone in the neighborhood that wouldn't clean their leaves. Then we'd hope for a good snow to freeze them on that property!
I have not missed leaves... Dreading leaf season simply because it takes soooooo long!!!! I hope you have a great weekend!
Excellent video today 😎
Just to give you a heads up put broom heads on the bottom edge bolted to a p 3 inch angle across the back you won’t leave one leave when it’s very forgiving over roots ,I have five of them ,go broom not conveyor belt
Was think the same thing. Definitely a productive lil unit tho.
When I was a kid, a long time ago, growing up on the Jersey shore, the town had a leaf vacuum trailer blowing into a dump truck. The top of the trailer was all expanded steel. It would rain down leaf particles but so what. It worked well and breathed well too
Sounds pretty awesome 👍
This looks so efficient!
You betcha
I feel like the little metal flexible fingers that are on those old school** leaf rakes would be a great addition to the bottom of the bucket
Leave plow is the next level of getting ready for actual snow plow 😅
Haha basically!
That was a mountain of leaves. Here in N.E. Kansas the leaves are just starting to turn colors. Great information.
Worked for a Municipality and we had Bat wing mowers we used in the parks . I would push piles and lift the deck and mulch them out. Fun times.
Wonder if they can market that, or at least collect some royalties! Although, there's probably some offshore group, watching videos & stealing ideas that will be here prior to next season... Nice work Stan! & Kool playtime, haven't been able to launch into leaf piles for some decades, lol! Thanx !
Leaf plows been around for over ten years:)
Nice. Many years ago, I made one out of an old water heater cut in half. Saves lots of time.
The leaf bulldozer is great. The shredder trailer is great too. What do they do with a full trailer? I guess they could burn it or reuse it for mulch? Beats the heck out of raking.
Bagged mulch would be great!
Hey Stanley there’s a lawnmower called Luma it’s self driven lawnmower that attaches itself to a stock when it runs low on battery do you want to look it up it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen it’s sort of cool like you Stanley love your show
Greet video Stan. Clever pushing device on the Toro. Saves lot of time and fuel. Noticed they had a little walk behind Toro could almost replace that with a billy goat wheeler vacuum for the tidying up bits? Just a thought. Better bagging than a mower and bigger bag.
And people say kohlers are garbage-2500 hours is pretty good in my book
Pretty slick good job enjoyed your video thank you
"Video Taping Us"....I have one question, was it Beta, Hi-8, or VHS tapes, :)
Awesome setup thanks for all the tips maybe next year for me I will have a trailer and vacuum
It seems like you're having a great time!
Stan looks like he made a better mousetrap 👍
Put strips of conveyor belt on the bottom of your Leaf plow and it will stop any damage to Turf plus you'll scoop up a little bit more leaves
Stuff like this gives me faith in America…
Nice ingenuity love the fabrication do we ever grow up just had to jump in the leaves look like fun we're there multiple trees leaves or just one breed it looked like Maple leaf maybe sycamore an liquid Amber for me these days sycamore is the worst I love the tree I love the color gives off but age has made my hay fever terrible it never bothered me before I have to wear a mask every time I weed whip blow it do a pile love the tree I hate the fever
Toro do makes so leaf rakes for the toro multi force if you didn’t know
Very Cool! Maybe put some rake tines across the bottom?
Love seeing the innovation.
That's some cool toys
But see I did bulk leaf clean up the first year I moved to Indiana.. I said to myself that's the last time..
So I built myself a shoot blocker. I had to cause I purchased a mulching kit for my xt1 52" cub and it was plastic.. It broke.. So even when the grass is dieing I still go out once a week and mulch leaves. If the the leaves are really bad I go over it twice. And it looks like some one came and sucked the leaves up..
I get most of the leaves from three big oak trees.
Over 35 years, I've developed some pretty decent methods of cleaning these up.
1. An ordinary rake to gather leaves.
2. A tarp on which to move leaves, and then slide them to their destination
3. A compost pile which is the destination for the leaves.
No machinery required, and it's really pretty fast and easy.
One advantage of this is that there is very little actual work involved ---that is LIFTING of material. nIt's mostly pushing the leaves around with the rake, which moves a lot of leaves and doesn't take much work (in the sense of physics) to do.
I'm from phoenix, ARIZONA and all I see is piles of mulching I could make with them leafs 🍃. To help my garden to grow.
I live in Ocala Florida, do you feel that fall came early for you? My weather is f-ed this year since the hurricane and weather changes. My yard isn't doing what's normal. I've only got a small 14 acre farm
I use my Cyclone rake, beats the hell out of what you’re showing.
Great job , I use my thatcher to push the piles.
Wow, what city is this that has that much leave fall already in Fall 2022? Must be way North of the Twin Cities? Very cool video!
"Necessity is the mother of all inventions" he needed a way to move massive piles of leaves so he invented it. That is absolutely awesome. He better patent it before a big company sees it and steals his idea!
Yup pretty amazing!
Definitely didn’t invent it. There are nice aluminum leaf plows on the market, but they’re north of $600
This isn't something new or revolutionary. Leaf pushers have been in use by Major municipalities across the US for decades to clean leafs up off of streets.
Sweet!! Everyone hates leaves. Right up there with building fences, picking up hay. Enjoy
This leaf pusher is a cool idea and very lightweight well put together.
I saw one from the other guy in Iowa husband and wife team?
Them using a purchased leaf pusher and it tends to clog up?
Man I hope you patents this . Because this could be a good marketing thing for him
It’s really true with the right tools you can take tons of hours off of a job that doesn’t mean you can do it for cheaper if the cleanup was worth $500 because you can do it in an hour does it mean it should be $150
Now thats more along the lines of what i was thinking of when looking up automatic leaf raking system...now just add some metal forks at the bottom
It would be nice to see Brian and these guys go toe to toe with the leaf vac to see what one is the champ the billy goat of there's
That's awesome 😎
I expect you've heard this before? Replace the wheels with skids/skis? They would
be closer to the ground without tearing-up the lawn?
Simple, smart innovation.
I watched a guy do something similar with a snow blower. It was awesome and really reduced the size of the material.
That’s a cool idea too
Mount a few metal rakes to drag bottom it would be better wouldn't you think?? 💪👊
I like my nice quiet rake
I built one of these a couple years back it does save a ton of time but I wish mine was powered up and down as well I just have a pin really cool design with power up and down
This is why I like watching Dirt Monkey, You give credit where credit is do!!! Peace
Add a piece of thin rubber conveyor belt to the bottom for better results.
I would put a drop tarp along the trailer and Ute to stop leaf overshoot
Wondering if you added a broom off of a lawn sweeper to the bottom if it would improve leaf pickup….
He should brand and patient that'll make millions in one day
that is so cool wish I had one save u guys somuch time with that thing
I have a parking lot sweeping business and do commercial and hi tech buildings in San Jose. We use Masco sweepers but so many leaves we just use the head (part that sucks all the debris) as a plow and make mounds of leaves. Got to check the screen doesn’t plug up or it will not suck up anything.
Great idea now normally at ma in-law house when leaves start falling we cut them up every 2 weeks
I am not sure if I missed it if there was reasoning behind it but if the leaf dozer had rubber strips along the bottom it would probably get more leaf material.
I think the leaf blowers still did most of the work
That's impressive.Stan you need one
If a guy would put a chunk of conveyor belting on the bottom of that thing and round the outside corners you could probably get a good clean with out the damage and get more traction