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myyard3297

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would a bush hog be a good idea to mulch a pile of leave?

during last fall I collected the leaves from my yard into a couple of large piles.

I would like to mulch them down to reduce the volume and spread the mulch.

I am thinking of renting a bush hog. I notice the blade is about 4-6 inches off the ground. so I dont know if a bush hog is a good answer.

while the pile is high, was planning on raking the leaves into rows about 8-10 inches high and use the bush hog to reduce the volume of leaves.


any input or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
 
A lawn mower with a bager works very well for doing that. I use mine in the horse pen where the horses waste hay I go in and run over the hay and bag it and then take it to my garden
 
Wait, what? You collected the leaves from your yard so you can spread them across your yard? That's like keeping the horse to haul the horse manure.
 
The concept would be good.

The reality is you are going to use a sledge hammer to try to drive in an upholstery tack.

It will end up doing 75% of what you wanted, but blow a lot of leaves around and kind of mess up the lawn again
and you will have leaves all over. Im not sure it will end up what you actually wanted.

More opinion than fact here, but thats my opinion.

Paul
 
A bush hog is more less designed to
wack off, and then blow out. The only
shredding that occurs, is what's done
in-between those two steps. I just
think you'd be doing more leaf blowing
and scattering, than shredding.

I think I'd try my luck with running
them through a wood chipper. Not sure
if those can be adjusted to size of
finished mulch. But if so, adjust it
all the way down for the leaves. Just
a thought. Not sure how well it would
work.
 
I have a couple of DR (brand) leaf compactors you pull behind your lawn mower. The mower shreds the leaves and the compactor
sucks the leaves into he hopper. They clam 10:1 compression and have several sized units. Have been doing my leaves for at least
10 years and surely a good investment.
 
In the fall, I take my zero turn and start mowing/blowing the leaves in the direction the wind is blowing.
Way back when, I used to rake them and/or use the leaf blower. I only did this when the leaves were dry. (Wet
leaves made a mess.) Raking and blowing made a big pile. Mowing them made an almost nonexistent pile of
shavings/dust. My point is your pile of leaves will need to be dry for a bush hog to grind them up. Mark.
 
Totally agree. So to support that process early in the fall when first leaves start falling, I try to get them before the rain does.
 
I raise the front of the lawn mower to get over the top of the leaves, lower the rear to hold them under the mower and cap off the discharge to mulch leaves in-place over the entire lawn. If you can hit the leaves when they are crispy dry and not in too thick of a layer yet they just shatter and the tiny pieces disappear into the lawn. For me that eliminates raking and collecting the leaves and eliminates hauling or spreading them too. Sharp mulching blades help too.

It would be nice to save the grass and leaves to make compost for the garden, but I can buy compost by the cubic yard so much easier than I can make it myself.
 
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