I hate leaves !!!

[JCurtis]

Especially when their wet, why couldn't it have waited a couple more hours before it started raining?


Now its gonna be a bear Thursday to get them all up.


I want SNOW !:D

[snonut12]

I agree 100% with ya. I am pretty pissed off with those pesky weather we have been getting. Rain, wind storm, rain, wind storm, rain, etc.... I had four wind storms so far this fall. One account that I have leaves job for, all the leaves are COMPLETELY GONE. It is no where to be found. My potential $$ just flew away! :( Also I am tired of pesky little rain that is just enough to stop the leaves cleanup effort. I started cleaning up the leaves this morning then shortly before noon, it began to rain lightly so I kept working on, cleaning up the leaves with my lawn tractor with shredder/cart system. About an hour later things are getting messy and the system are clogging up, so I had enough of it and call it for a day. :mad: It was also sleeting too at that time, very little accumulation in some spots.

Forecast for tomorrow are saying mostly cloudy but temp. in mid 50s, so it should give me a chance to work more on leaves. But the catch is another 2 wind storms are expected for this Thursday and Friday! :mad: On Saturday I will be out of town all day so I won't be able to work on leaves. Well I could do more on Sunday and Monday, but that is when county dump are closed, so I have no where to dump the leaves until Tuesday. Why do things seem to always have to happen at worst time???? :confused:

[Roger Dodger]

You know what really sucks about leaves, is when a neighbor rakes or blows them into a huge pile and then doesn't pick them up for whatever reasons, only to have the wind redeliver the majority of that pile to my yard. :mad: S.O.B! I had to get out the tractor and used the belly mower in reverse to mulch the daylights out of it all into a pile of shredded leaves. Then a snowshovel to scoop it up into bags. That guy is gonna find a mysteriously accumulated pile of snow at the end of his driveway!

[JCurtis]

If I had to bag all the leaves in my yard, I would use half a forest alone in paperbags.

Can't use plastic bags, city won't pickem up.

Too Far to drage them all out to the street ( 300 foot driveway, no street frontage, other houses)

So I call a friend with a vacuum truck and lo and behold the piles disappear.

I just have TOOOOOOOOOOOOO Damn many leaves:D

[pro property]

I have a bunch of properties still to do a fall (leaf) clean up on , hopefully before it snows...Or of course if it snows then its done in the spring....

It sucks when there wet, and/or frozen together.
:D

[snowplowjay]

Leaves.............What leaves............Thats what your neighbors front lawn is for :D



Jay

[BWhite]

I used to hate raking . then I bought a Cyclone rake for my tractor . it does a really good job picking up leaves ,needles twigs pinecones . For the corners and hard to get areas I have the hose with wand . Then use a third hose to suck them out of the container over a hill out of sight. No I am not a dealer LOL

[mdb landscaping]

leaves were going great till the other day......our big 65 hp municipal sucker that the boss had the motor rebuilt on blew a piston. we spent a lot of time priming, painting and putting her back together and now we are stuck using our 16hp giant vac, and the rest we are using bobcats and our loader to put in the dump trucks. hopefully we'll have it back this week sometime, cause production is lacking now:rolleyes: two big days of wind coming up too....... oh well, still beats last year. leaf season was non existent.

[RPM]

Keep the grass mowed low so leaves blow right out of the yard.:shades

[jt5019]

We started puting a dent on our leaf jobs but still have many to do.With all the rain and wind weve been getting, we only get a good two or three days of work out of the week.People have started to complain :mad: hopefully next week will be better.

[pro property]

some peopel must think we can control the weather.
Whish i could..:burnout

[Adams Plowing]

Originally posted by pro property
some peopel must think we can control the weather.
Whish i could..:burnout

If ya figure it Out How bout some snow... im getting tired of waiting lol

[JCurtis]

Amen, pro property, if I could control the weather It would snow every other day from Thanksgiving to Easter, only after Rush hour, after all the commercials close and on week ends so the parking lots would be empty.

And it wouldn't snow on holidays !

Think how quick and efficient we could be then.




:zoom

[WoofsPlow]

I actually thought about plowing my leaves last weekend instead of using the blower! Snow please:headwall

[CNY Joe]

I agree with Woofsplow, bring on the snow the waiting is killing me:headwall :headwall :headwall :D

[BWhite]

It supposed to be REAL windy here tommorrow . That may be a good thing or if they blow into my yard .......a bad thing

[Plow Babe]

Leaves = Job Security for us sweepers :p

(Sorry, couldn't resist!) ;)

[pro property]

I just did 9 hrs of fall cleanups... Im getting sick of leaves... Next year there is a dump box going on the truck......

Got back to my office and there are messages for more fall cleanups....

ohhh joy,,,,I am ready for a holiday

[Plow Grrl]

They aren't soooo bad. You see I hired Mother Nature to maintain the leaves since our lawn service is done for the year.

We are having MASSIVE winds here and my lawn is pretty free of leaves right now. The wind has been SO bad that it opened my mailbox door and I am missing three Vehicle Registration cards that were in there. Couldn't make it to the post office due to
Carpet Installers; which they never showed up. :mad
Kicking myself in the rear for putting them in there.

*Looking for my Ruby slippers as we speak.....

[pro property]

Its starting to get really windy here now. They say it may SNOW tonight.....
I hope the wind blows the leaves off the properties I still have to do cleanups on, and of course I will still bill them....
:grinz

[JCurtis]

Maybe these 40 - 50 mph winds will take the last leaves on my trees off so that I can do my final cleanup once and for all.

:rolleyes:

Have done my yard 3 times so far:headwall

[John DiMartino]

guys are trying to do cleanups here today,LOL.40+ mph winds already,the leaves from enighbors yards are covering there work as fast as they do it. Im going to try to get the heavy stuff today with my catcher,and pan on finishing when the wind is down.

[jt5019]

I have seen 4 companys out trying to do leaves so far and we are supposed to get wind gusts over 58 mph today :rolleyes:So far its been in the 25 mph range.I would rather skip a day of leaves and get the job done when i know it will come out nice.

[pro property]

I just had one of my customers call and cancel. She said there was no sense cleaning up now. All the leaves are gone from the wind.....

damn wind...:headwall

[BWhite]

THe wind has cleaned out my yard . Now as long the wind direction doesnt change:mad:

[Adams Plowing]

got lucky here all my leaves are curently in the neibors lawn for him to clean up...

[JCurtis]

Ok then, all you guys that got your yards and accounts taken care of by Mother Nature today .... if you got nothing better to do, swing down to my house, I got plenty of leaves, rakes and :drinkup


:jk about the leaves, but if you're in the area, I'll buy the first round.:D

[CNY Joe]

Looks like I can forget about the leaves for the next few days, hope to be out plowing in a few hours:cash

[Got Snow?]

spend most of last weekend blowing leaves into a couple of big piles. at the end of the day i hooked up the plow and after a little back dragging and a couple of passes, presto! pushed them all in the woods. nothing like it!!!!!





:burnout :burnout :burnout :burnout

[lola]

but they are no longer in my yard-lol
I was dreading having to rake them this weekend.. :D

[Milwaukeegirl]

Lolers,

Did all the leaves go over to John's house? Naughty-girl!

[lola]

NO -I think they blew away in the other direction ..:D

[Milwaukeegirl]

JohnD!!!
Are you believin' any of this??
I am soooooooooooo NOT!:nope

[JohnDsGirl]

I paid some kids $10 three weeks ago to rake my leaves.

Then my kid and his little friend did it AGAIN this week.

I went to get the the mail today and now there's more!:huh

[BWhite]

My yard was clean before the wind . THen the wind kept the yard clean then it blew some in then cleared it again now it looks like I will has to make another pass with the cyclone rake :mad:

[BWhite]

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[BWhite]

Now that the leaves are gone l,found 3 of these in trees around the pond

[JCurtis]

Bill , I heard this old saying... I hope its right!

"The higher the bee hive hangs on the tree, the deeper the snow"


:D

[festerw]

BWhite, that's a pretty nice lawn tractor, I have one just like.

[JCurtis]

Ok, today I helped my son-in law do his leaves, clean the gutters and do (hopefully) the last cut . It took better part of the day.

I still have my yard to finish, but at least he came over, went up on the roof and did my gutters for me. One less thing to do now!

( he's good for something... j/k, he's a plumber, thats a good trade to have as a son in law.)


Hopefully, I should finish the leaves by wednesday if it doesn't rain between now and then.

Then I can play on the truck:D

[crazy4jay]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by snowplowjay
[B]Leaves.............What leaves............Thats what your neighbors front lawn is for :D



good one jay, but thanks to the few days of wind we had in PA, ya'll up north now have the leaves :grinz sorry about the rain though, have no control over that ;)

[capt.craig]

I had the same problem , bought a 13hp billygoat loader this year and made sides on my 3/4 ton truck just to the top of the cab. took a load to the dump yesterday without packing it down(room for more) the weight was a wopping 1780Lbs I new it was heavy but didn't realize it was that heavy . they say 11/1 ratio but i would guess at least 7 truck loads to 1 of my truck loads before. it works great and saves alot of time. craig