How do you store your lawn sweeper?

[bmxdukie]

Hi folks.. well, just bought a lawn sweeper. Works good.
Anyone have tips for winter storage? Will mice like it? Is so, how to keep them out?
Thanks

 

[Spud McGee]

I've been leaving mine out in the elements. So far, its held up fine. I did have to tilt it forwards so the hopper section is not laying directly on the ground. Ants found it and decided to make a huge nest directly under that part.

I may cover it with a tarp, grill cover, or riding mower cover if I can find one that fits, just to keep it from getting sun damaged and brittle.

 

[58Yeoman]

I store mine outside against a tree or shed with a blue tarp over it. I have the hopper folded over, also.

 

[brownbagg]

why would anybody sweep their lawn

 

[Dagny]

cause you need the clippings in the garden.

 

[Spud McGee]

why would anybody sweep their lawn

I can drive around on my riding mower and it rakes up all the pinestraw, pinecones, and sticks.
It picks up 10x faster than what you could do with a rake, and you can do it sitting on your ****.

 

[Black300zx]

cause you need the clippings in the garden.

Curious - do you compost them into your garden soil, or just lay it on top as mulch? I spread grass clippings in my one flowerbed once, and it got pretty nasty. I put a mulching plug on my mower and never looked back.

 

[JRC3]

Mine goes in his truck...Not sure where he goes after he leaves.

Haha, "leaves."

 

[CraigStu]

I have an AgriFab lawn vacuum. It is a fantastic piece of equipment. When we sold our previous house 3 years ago the buyer wanted it as part of the deal. We got to our new house (5 acres w/ about 3/4 acre cleared for house and lawn) and I thought maybe I could get by w/o a vac. Did that the first fall and the next summer waited for a sale and bought another identical vac. When weather or schedule gets me behind on leaves I fire the vac up and as long as the leaves are less than 6 inches thick I drive around and leave a 4ft swath of perfectly leaf free grass behind me. Vac and tractor or stored under the deck which I enclosed and put a corrugated plastic roof under the deck.

 

[dchawk81]

Mine goes in his truck...Not sure where he goes after he leaves.

Haha, "leaves."

"I hate to see you go but I love to watch you leaf." - Castor Troy's Gardner, probably.

 

[dchawk81]

why would anybody sweep their lawn

Because raking is for sportsy people.

 

[ScottsGT]

Just bought one. Wife bitched because “She likes to rake the yard”. Really? Then why did I have several trips to the dump with a dozen bags each trip I bagged last year? Took me 20 min this year the first time I used it.
Storage though, I’ll probably put it in the shed, standing on end. I’ll pull out the spreader bar and hang the bag on the wall.

 

[Innovate1]

My sweeper is now stored at someone elses place since I sold it. I use the riding mower with bagger to pick up leaves. Works well and chops them up so they take up less room.

 

[acer66]

Did not know such a thing exist.

Warming my truck up as we speak to get one, a shed to store it and specialty tools to maintain it.

On a more serious note, I just mow over things and if I would have one I would store it indoors.

 

[dchawk81]

On a more serious note, I just mow over things

 

[ScottsGT]

My sweeper is now stored at someone elses place since I sold it. I use the riding mower with bagger to pick up leaves. Works well and chops them up so they take up less room.

Yea, my new ZTR’s bagger is $2000. It’s got a belt driven fan unit to blow the leaves to the bags. Not gonna happen. Got an Ohio Steel 50” sweeper from Walmart for $350 delivered. I miss the bagger, but not $2k of missing it.

 

[dchawk81]

Yea, my new ZTR’s bagger is $2000. It’s got a belt driven fan unit to blow the leaves to the bags. Not gonna happen. Got an Ohio Steel 50” sweeper from Walmart for $350 delivered. I miss the bagger, but not $2k of missing it.

I'd pay 2 grand for a blower bagger in a heartbeat.

I have a non-blower bagger and it's a PITA by comparison but still better than raking.

 

[dchawk81]

To answer the OP's question:

I keep her in the kitchen.

 

[bmxdukie]

Yea i guess ill have to hang it on the garage back wall... also gives me a reason to take down my sons kyle busch flag! Lol

 

[dchawk81]

Yea i guess ill have to hang it on the garage back wall... also gives me a reason to take down my sons kyle busch flag! Lol

A real father would never have allowed that flag to be hung in the first place.

 

[brownbagg]

true story, in my lifetime, I have never rake, bagged, or sweep my yard, once it gets cut, that where its lays till next cutting. oh also, I dont cut my grass every week. it might be three weeks, and i have never owned a weed eater

 

[nadogail]

My Lawn Sweeper comes every Saturday morning and when done he drives himself away.

 

[kaymccampbell]

I bought the $300 bagger for my mower. So my sweeper parks in the same space as the mower.

 

[ScottsGT]

I'd pay 2 grand for a blower bagger in a heartbeat.

I have a non-blower bagger and it's a PITA by comparison but still better than raking.

Are you kidding me? My wife lost her religion over me dropping $6500 on the mower. Another $2k tacked on would put me on TV on Divorce Court or her on TV on Snapped.

 

[dchawk81]

Are you kidding me? My wife lost her religion over me dropping $6500 on the mower. Another $2k tacked on would put me on TV on Divorce Court or her on TV on Snapped.

I earn my money, I can spend it however I see fit.

 

[ScottsGT]

I’m retired. She still works. Kind of keeps the peace. My retirement pay would barely cover expenses of mortgage, tax and power bill.
Besides, with the blower on the side of the deck it probably wouldn’t fit through the door of my shed.

 

[dchawk81]

I’m retired. She still works. Kind of keeps the peace. My retirement pay would barely cover expenses of mortgage, tax and power bill.
Besides, with the blower on the side of the deck it probably wouldn’t fit through the door of my shed.

I'm neither retired nor married. Even if I was married I wouldn't tolerate an arrangement where I had to beg to spend my own income.

 

[Masheen365]

In the south we keep ours hooked up to the old, deckless mower so we can use it. Winterizing isn’t much of a concern because we have leaves falling until new ones come in. We just haul of the leaves to the burn pile and start it with all my wife’s Amazon boxes.