Are Leaf Rakes Illegal???

[Doug Kanter]

Uh oh. I thought I was a Democrat.

[Nick Hull]

Actually, when I want to rake leaves I hitch up the hay rake to my tractor.

[Joseph Meehan]

The green party menber will mulch the leaves and recycle them saving the cost of the mower, fertilizer and rake.

[m Ransley]

Actually lawnmower mulching of leaves on the lawn is best, although it looks bad for a month it is not only free fertilizer but studies done show lawns mulched have a much lower incidence of mold diseases. Nature has us beat again.

[Stormin Mormon]

My parents live in a "burb" of Rochester. Dad used to mow the leaves, and let them rot. I never could see much sense of raking leaves, and having them hauled away.

Actually, I do wear hearign aids. I had an infection when I was a kid, and I'm moderaely hard of hearing.

[Trent©]

You can also use a leaf blower to dry off yer car after yer done washing it.

Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!

[Here to there]

Because when you have 4+ inches of leaves on your lawn, if you don't take them up, you will have nothing but dirt left by next Spring. And having your topsoil wash away in the Spring rains is just no fun at all.

- Rich

[Here to there]

Mow 1/3 acre of leaves where the average depth is 4+ inches? Sorry, all that's going to do is fluff them up a bit. ;-)

- Rich

[Here to there]

So basically, you're just jealous that you're too dumb to use a computer, and too poor to afford power tools, eh? ;-)

- Rich

[Philip Lewis]

hmmm... I see a list a-brew'n:

Democrat: Hold an election to see who has to rake the leaves.

Republican: Only allow companies to rake the leaves. Ask for bids, with a qualification that the company has to be named "Leafaburton". Pay that company 10 times the rate for which the neighbor kid would do it.

Libertarian: We should mind our own business and leaf them alone. (ok... so it's a punning Libertarian... kinda like me)

Green: mulch them in and encourage natural leaf preditors, worms, etc.

Communist: everyone must rake leaves!

Remember... since their is a high turnout expected at the polls, they've split it into two days. Democrates vote tuesday, and Republicans vote Wednesday. [*]

[willshak]

Most of that 4" is airspace between the leaves. Mulch them and they'll be reduced to confetti size.

[Here to there]

Uh, no. That's 4 inches of relatively tightly packed, wet leaves. Not to mention that, not being affixed by their roots to the ground, the mower tends to just push them to the side, rather than riding over them.

I'm not saying that mulching them up isn't a fine idea when appropriate - that's what I do in my front yard, where I only have a couple of maples, and there's only an inch or so on the ground. But short of having a mower with 5 inches of ground clearance, mowing and mulching simply isn't an option.

- Rich

[Harry K]

I go with the mowing em. Honda self prop rear bagger. Remove bag it is a very good mulcher. Two passes with leaves higher than the deck leaves nothing but a powdering of very small bits behind. Good for the lawn and a lot faster than the raking or blowing methods.

Harry K

[Doug Kanter]

I may give that a try AGAIN later this week. Tried it on part of the lawn, but I ended up with leaves only half the size of what I started with, rather than little flakes. This is with a nice new Honda mulching mower, by the way. Someone else in the thread mentioned "two passes", so that's next on the list. The lawn under one particular area needs one more clip anyway.

[Jim]

Or better yet, cut the lawn short enough in the fall, and let the wind blow them into the neighbor's yard for you!

[Chris Lewis]

According to Doug Kanter :

Most table saws are virtually silent. Induction motors make very little noise. Or, are you thinking the noise it makes cutting through wood? ;-)

[Joseph Meehan]

Not really funny. We had a rash of them around here. It appears that they targeted certain areas where there had been a lot of new registrations.

[Doug Kanter]

Yeah....with wood in progress. You know what I mean, wise guy. :-)

[effi]

You'd think they'd use leaf vacuumers instead of leaf blowers...

Rakes are more fun because when you scrape them on concrete they make that cool sound...

[Doug Kanter]

If you do that at night with a metal rake, you can sometimes make sparks. Way cool. Way useless. :-)