WHEN YOU NEED TO CLEAR A TRAIL, WHAT ATTACHMENT SHOULD YOU USE?
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2021
- Deer season is upon us and we wanted to clean the leaves off our trails so we could navigate the woods a little more silently. So we threw on our 60" CMP dethatcher and thought we'd just run a few passes over our main trails. Well things didn't pan out the way we hoped. To find out what went wrong, you'll have to watch the video!
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Maybe the belly mower would work better for blowing leaves? Or chop them and spray them to the side
I've used a side discharge mower deck for over 20 years for clearing trails. I swap to an old set of high lift blades that create a huge suction and blower discharge. Same setup is used to clear organics off the gravel driveway before grading and to remove pine needles from the driveway do I don't end up with pine needle reinforced ice on those early storms.
I agree and I raise the deck so I don't hit roots and allow for more airflow. Cheers!
@@reno4819 Correct. In my case, I put the deck up in the "transport" location. That clears the roots and larger rocks on the trail and helps keep from getting a huge build-up in front of the deck. The other thing is to make sure you don't do it when the leaves are wet. Lastly, keep up with the leaves. Don't let them get too deep or the lower layers never dry out.
On the gravel driveway, I run the deck a bit lower as it helps blow off the sides of the drive better. It also gives the underside of the deck a nice sand blasting which cleans it up for winter storage. When I yank off the high lift blades, I hit the underside with a few passes of spray paint and I'm good for the winter storage.
I do the same thing, the most powerful (relatively speaking) leaf blower you can buy :-)
Yep this guy is just looking for seat time.
I do the same, use the side discharge to point the debries out into busches and away from lawn/trail/road or whatever im cleaning up. Thats the Only time i like the side discharge otherwise im a mulcher lover..
I think you would be better off with a blower mounted on the 3pt hitch. I just got an old Toro blower from a golf course that swapped over to the new jet blowers.
I watch these just for the good music and B Roll. The info is just extra. Great video as always.
I would give the landscape rake another try. Also the mower deck would be most efficient I think, I wouldn’t have thought of that unless you said it!
OMG thank goodness you stopped using that de thatcher! I still think a three point blower would work better. Waiting for my GWT discount when you offer one…. Thanks for the videos!
I have to hand it to you. You show everyone what works and have no problem showing us what doesn't work just as well. Which I think is great cause I could see someone saying just use a land rake that will do it. For the trails in my woods I just used my zero turn. Blew all the leaves off pretty good. Lasted about a week and with the leaves still falling I was back to where I was. That was ok with me. Like you said...it's kind of nice just being in the woods as is. Thanks for showing us the good with the not so good.
This is where a traditional rough cut mower comes in handy. The mower pushes the material to one side, and usually with it in a higher setting, acts like a large fan and pushes the debris off to one side. The added bonus is that, unlike a traditional mower deck, it can hit things and not risk a blade or sheave assembly.
3 point rotary sweeper would be my choice. i use mine for yard cleanup in the spring and it doesnt do any damage to the lawn, and doesnt get hung up on roots sticks or small stumps. youve seen it in my arsenal in your follower mashup video your brother put out!
Backpack leaf blower would be my first choice. Second choice would be a harrow drag
Courtney as always I really enjoy your videos, keep up the great work!
As you and some others in the comments stated a mower deck would give you what your looking for. Plus if you raised the deck to the highest setting with a set of old blades (great idea mentioned by another) you could fly around those trails with good results.
May the good Lord bless you with 'The Big One' and keep all hunters safe. Amen
Good choice and thank you for sharing the journey
Failure is the best teacher. Even though you were not successful in the time you allowed yourself - you were successful figuring out how much time you need and which attachment will work best next time. BTW I really like the banjo solo in your exit music.
I would be tempted to bungee my back pack leaf blower onto my loader bucket and drive slowly.
But I will also stack a bunch of pallets on my forks, put my step ladder on top of them and get my wife to raise the bucket so I can hang Christmas lights on the house. 😂😂
I really enjoyed this video! My land here in north Florida has several trails. I use the mower deck and then just use the blower. I'll also use the landscape rake if a storm has come through and left a lot of debris from the trees. I actually like some leaves on the trails to keep the trails from getting muddy. Thanks for showing what the different implements do in this situation.
What about a PTO driven blower? We recently camped at a TN state park and they cleared campsites pretty quickly and efficiently with one on a larger tractor, Would be really nice on your 1025.
The belly mower even hanging several inches up will suck up, mulch and throw to the side, leaving clean trails.
I was going to buy a leaf blower when we first bought our place, but I use our little ride-on to clear the gravel driveway. Does a great job.
Always enjoy ur posts...keep on keeping on!👨🌾😎
I have the de-thatcher and love it. It works great for picking up leaves and pine needles off my 800’ driveway. While watching your struggles I thought to myself ‘why not use your mid mount mower’ and low and behold great minds think a like. Rarely do the stars align for leaves to be moved while they’re dry so I agree with your conclusion - enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Good hunting and have fun with your kids.
Thanks for sharing! It's good to know what doesn't work, too.
Hitting it with a backpack blower before using the tractor can be a huge help. Blow the light weight organics off the top before they clog all the tractor attachments. They do make PTO blowers for 7x the price of a backpack blower if you just have to do the work while sitting down:)
A front mounted hydraulic angle broom would make quick work of the leaf clean up. It is also the absolute best attachment for removing light snow
Glad that you show the successes and failures.
I have a JD 855 with a belly mower. I cleaned off my trails today. One pass and done.
Great to see you filming your success and your failures , real life!!!
Tractor time with Tim had an attachment that was a leaf dozer blade that’s what you need for this job!!
I think that a tractor mounted blower might be the trick for this job
I use a drag harrow and it works great, an additional benefit it evens the trail out if it has high spots or ruts. I have over 2 miles of trails and it has worked flawlessly.
Don’t overthink it. A regular mower deck will work fine. Chops up the leaves & blows them out into the brush leaving nice clean trail. Use it all year on my trails. Small 3 acre woods w/ about 3/4 to 1 mile of winding trails thru it. Takes 15 or 20 min.
It's not a tractor attachment, but I have a couple miles of similar trails, and a backpack blower makes very short work of it.... Love your videos, keep 'em coming.
Man, I feel your pain, and its always easier to look and critique via a keyboard. I love your videos, but your right, a side discharge mower, or some kind of blower attachment. But to save you a buck or 2 on that whole set up, just get a BR800 backpack blower. Im sure you have something similar, but you woulda got further and saved a bit of time and aggravation.
Anyways, just my useless 2 cents...all the best!
That drone seems to be doing a pretty good job clearing leaves!😁 Yard vacuum system is my vote.
Tow behind a gas powered blower. Works like the mower with a side discharge without wrecking your blades.
Turn the landscape rake around backwards. Doesn’t dig in and still rakes up the leave great!
Would like to see you try this. I would be very interested in how well it performs. Great idea Warrior 4-U
The mower deck I use it all the time great job
What doesn't work is almost as important as what does work. Now when folks ask if either of those two attachments are a good choice for leaf clearing, you can point to this and say "probably not the best choice". As many others have said - a blower of some sort, or a front mounted angled sweeper.
Good Morning Courtney, working & maintaining hundred of miles of trails (mountain biking) recommend the best option of walking with "backpack blower" which you will benefit a single track trail for walking/biking and eliminating either side from erosion with leaf coverage. Good luck and thanks for your informative videos.
After flail mowing, strap on a mid mount mower deck with high lift blades and with the discharge chute removed, or tied up out of the way. Set your cut depth to 4" or higher and go to town. It'll suck all of that leafy mulch right up and shoot it off of the trail. Just watch out for debris ricochet back at you from tree trunks that are close to the chute.
I’ve used a mower deck with a D Thatcher on the back of the tractor pretty successfully you’re doing two things at once
May have already been mentioned, but a pine straw take is another low cost attachment and it does pretty good with leaves. In a woods setting, it collecting some sticks along the way helps it grab more leaves and it isn't as harsh on the ground or lawn as a landscape rake is.
Box blade setting 1/16 high on front works great
I think a PTO blower would work great for that. I would really like to see some reasonably priced ones available.
Can’t win them all. Glad you even share your fails!
The best setup, I've found is using an old riding mower in my case a 25yr old 46" troy bilt with old blades on the highest deck setting. I keep our trails under 4', since use em for mtb biking and ATV tight curves and switches are more fun.
I have had good luck with my landscape rake. It does do some grading but only until you get the trails smoothed out. As others have suggested a 3pt hitch blower would probably be best and you won’t have to have a place to put all the leafs.
Nothing better than everything going not the way you planned!! Enjoyed it, #reallife.
Can't wait for the flail mower videos. Want to see how the 1025r handles thick stuff with one. Great video as always. Any updates on shipping to Canada lol.
Idk I could of had it done faster with a backpack blower.
Exactly I have a walk behind blower little wonder optimax 8hp that would have cleared those trails in no time one pass on either side and have no problems getting in and out of the tight areas. And it doesn't cost as much as some of those attachments he's using.
I use that on my 738. Works great.
Maybe a drag chain harrow...
Recommend the biggest leaf blower you can handle. I use Husqvarna 125B on my pine straw and works fine. Bit dusty but does the job
You're over thinking this! The best thing for a smooth trail is simply a side discharge mower deck, two passes at a slow speed
I think side discharge mower would be the fastest and easiest!!!!!
You saved the day with the deere blind
I was using an ATV chain harrow on my trails Monday. I had it flipped to the aggresive direction and it took a few passes to get to a bare path but then again it would pile up all the leaves and eventually leave behind a huge pile that it jumped over and deposited. Still had to do some manual raking to clear those up. It "worked" but not as effecient as I would like. I'm thinking something like a vacuum rake - sort of like a snow blower but for leaves - would be interesting and might be good. It would suck up the leaves and discharge them off to the side away from the trail.
Seat time/time in the woods is NEVER a failure!
I use my John Deere z950m with mulch on demand deck in my trails. It turns the leaves to dust. Works great.
Hey Courtney. I use a big Stihl backpack blower on my trails. I'll culipack a few times a year, so the leaves blow off like it was cement.
I run my John Deere GX335 with a 54” deck on it, works great and doesn’t cost and extra $3k.
I use my brush hog and drive backwards. It chops it up and pushes it as you go. Acts like a leaf blower. I do that in my driveway also with my 3 pt finish mower after I mow.
Hey Courtney you need to look into the Ferris stand on blowers. They can move wind at 165 mph. Find a good used one since you do that for a living.
I use the mower deck set at the highest level to blow the leaves as far as possible. Usually only takes a couple passes and works great if you don't have many obstructions in your path.
The trail looks very developed, so I would use a strong leaf bower and clear off the surface
It’s a good point that when you rake by hand, you make many passes (as you stand and rake). When you rake by tractor, you make one pass … so, it stands to reason that you’re going to have to drive several passes to rake the leaves off.
I've done trail clearing with a rotary brush hog/mower quiet effectively or a 3 point hitch pto BLOWER is the best. The most effective and quickest. I have lots of trails and am using it for the same reasons.
Ventrac has an attachment that is a giant leaf blower and the giant tube that is on it rotates so you can angle where it blows. Do they make a regular 3-point attachment for something like that?
I seen that northern tool has a lawn rake that looks like a hay rake but for a lawn mower or atv. I've looked at this for a while but I will probably stick to the sweeper.
I use a mower deck on trails like that with the discharge blocked off or a mulch kit so the trail doesn’t turn into a water way years down the road. Detachers and landscape rakes over years will tend to create lower spots and will eventually turn into the wet and soggy areas. The idea is to keep mulch and debris on the trail to keep it built up higher ground.
I use a pine rake, it has its issues. However, it works out well for me.
Love that music.
A blower is what you need. I can't justify a 3pt blower just for a few uses during the fall, so I use my old walk behind billy goat. I actually ratchet strap it to my forks (I move forks all the way to left side of the frame) start it up and go. I set the deflector at about the mid point on the blower. Works great!
Mower with side discharge or that blower you have that attaches to your mower! To clean the trails that is. Lol
Whenever you can spend time on your tractor it’s totally worth it! Backpack blower will work just fine
A 3 point hitch PTO BLOWER ...... I use one at the gulf course and clear a par 5 in a hour sticks and leaves way back into the bush so they will not be blowing back onto the fairway .
Tractor time with Tim had an attachment that was a leaf dozer blade that what you need for this job!!
Love seeing the mistakes. Keeps us from trying the same technique.
I have a GT 275 John Deere and a 345 John Deere I use my detacher all the time to rake up leaves mine mounts in the front
I've used a 3 point finish mower before with a side discharge
Two words. “Buffalo Turbine” look at the PTO driven unit. Would love to see a video on it. Looking at one for myself.
That attachment is also multiple thousands of dollars and doesn't make sense unless you have a large property with lots of debris
Pine needle rake could be better option between the dethatcher rake and landscape rake. Works great in our area.
What about a front mount rotary broom or your mid mount side discharge 60" deck?
power broom would have made short work of that.
You should try a 3 point hitch blower or a billy goat 13 horse self propelled blower
Kubota BX series with a mid pto mower deck with a rear pto grass catcher/bagger. I'm sure the green guys got a competing product. If you got miles of trails I think all you can do is get a blade and pretend you are plowing snow.
That rake doesn’t look like it works well from behind. In fact you moved more leaves backing up. What I’d do is mount it to the front of the tractor, then use the mower deck to blow anything that get missed off to the side.
Yeah leaf blower works great.
Why did you take off the quick hitch to mount the mower?
You give up too easy Cortney! Get out the snow blower! 😏
I think the landscape rake was the right tool for this job.
Look left. Look right. You get the trail clean. Wind picks up. Its covered again. You push them off to the side. Again, wind. To have them clear for an day or two for hunting. I would use an side discharge mower with an bagging system. The leaves would get chopped up and you can get more done without dumping as much. Then when you bump the leaves out of the bags, they wont blow back onto the trail as easy. I hope your hunt goes well.
I think the mower deck would be the best bet. I use the mower deck to get rid of leaves on my yard.
I agree with everyone recommending a blower. Front mounted, one and done.
U-Mount………attaches to tractors, zeroturns and is a large leave blower. Believe they are even looking for dealers. Check them out. They fix on atvs and golf carts too.
The best way I know to use my 60" belly mower. It will clear it down to bare ground in one pass. The only problem is it will muddy up if you get a lot of rain.
what about a rotary broom?
Never tried this but a box blade maybe?? Seems like it would be about as effective as the dethatcher without clogging up as bad. Should be able to fill up the box and then dump them out. Probably have to stop and dump a lot though but maybe better than unclogging those tines. I’m going to try this later actually.
how about a blower attachment, maybe even a snow blower? Seems they don't need to be mulched, just removed from the path...
I think a landscape rake would be best or a huge leaf blower like a belly mower!!!
On a 1025r I'd use a belly mower set high with gator blades. My x580 and 54" deck with gator blades makes short work of leaves and debris.
I use the mower deck to clean the leaves from the gravel driveway. A lot faster than the DeThatcher