Does anyone have the Billy Goat or another leaf vac they'd recommend (worth the money)?
I have 2 very large oak trees which cover my yard in leaves weekly for a couple of months each fall/winter. The leaves come down too densely to mulch, so I must bag or rake. Bagging with the lawnmower is easy enough, but it doesn't reduce them much (2 to 1 maybe). I've tried mulching and then bagging, but too many mulched leaves get stuck in the grass this way.
My constraint in this process is really volume for disposal (96 gal yard carts). I have 2, which will do my front yard or backyard, but not both with my current process. This means I do front one week, back the next, and repeat for a month or so. I tried an electric leaf shredder last year, which worked OK and supposedly reduced 8 to 1, but required replacing trimmer line every couple of minutes, which really got old.
I have 2 very large oak trees which cover my yard in leaves weekly for a couple of months each fall/winter. The leaves come down too densely to mulch, so I must bag or rake. Bagging with the lawnmower is easy enough, but it doesn't reduce them much (2 to 1 maybe). I've tried mulching and then bagging, but too many mulched leaves get stuck in the grass this way.
My constraint in this process is really volume for disposal (96 gal yard carts). I have 2, which will do my front yard or backyard, but not both with my current process. This means I do front one week, back the next, and repeat for a month or so. I tried an electric leaf shredder last year, which worked OK and supposedly reduced 8 to 1, but required replacing trimmer line every couple of minutes, which really got old.