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  1. #51
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    I love trees. I have a small yard, 2 apples, 2 Italian prunes, one small maple with roots more on the neighbour’s side than mine, and a fantastic Doug fir in my back yard. Picking up the fruit, cone and leaf litter from the yard and eves bothers me not at all. Donning borrowed spurs and belt and climbing the fir 6+m to remove the lower branches for fire guarding is an adventure. Wonderful carbon sequesters. Building a rope swing with my daughter in the maple. Shade when the mercury exceeds 35C. Understanding there is a whole other world happening below the soil, as big or bigger as that above.

    Wish I had a bigger yard with room for more.

  2. #52
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    6+m? how many inches is that? less than a rod? more than a fathom?

  3. #53
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    Quote Originally Posted by m2711c View Post
    6+m? how many inches is that? less than a rod? more than a fathom?
    About 20 to 25 freedum foot units south of the poutine curtain.

  4. #54
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    I got lucky and timed the last mow just right and got the front mulched up almost perfectly, had to blow a little off a few days later but no big deal. The back on the other hand is too deep and it would take too many passes to want to put in the effort. I tried and failed so gave up. Looks like it's going to become a bug's paradise, the birds are already enjoying it.

  5. #55
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    The Campaign Against Leaves

    I joined the forty-v club, this thing blows! Always starts, no blue smoke. Switch the battery over to the monster of string trimmer for summer use.

    My neighbor cleaned up yesterday, I’m doing my final blow of the season.
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    crab in my shoe mouth

  6. #56
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    I don't mind the leaves as much as I mind the ticks.

  7. #57
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    Quote Originally Posted by hooked View Post
    I don't mind the leaves as much as I mind the ticks.
    Ticks suck.

  8. #58
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nobody Famous View Post
    This Labrador lives for giant leaf piles:

    I needed this.

  9. #59
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    Quote Originally Posted by riser4 View Post
    I needed this.
    Right?
    My wolf pup and I were visiting the folks one fall, and he dove into a pile of leaves like that while we were raking. Just all out of the blue, never did it before. We were rolling with laughter, including the pup.

  10. #60
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    Quote Originally Posted by buttahflake View Post
    I joined the forty-v club, this thing blows! Always starts, no blue smoke. Switch the battery over to the monster of string trimmer for summer use.

    My neighbor cleaned up yesterday, I’m doing my final blow of the season.
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    You should try the 730 CFM version. The leaves don't move, the earth actually rotates out of the way. You can find them refurbed at a reasonable price.

  11. #61
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nobody Famous View Post
    This Labrador lives for giant leaf piles:

    Steve Harman w/CBS News has the backstory.


    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maine-d...ir-autumn-joy/

  12. #62
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    I keep reading the thread title as the most optimistic headline of my life.

  13. #63
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nobody Famous View Post
    This Labrador lives for giant leaf piles:

    The best!

  14. #64
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    PSA-

    These things rock. No idea where to get them though, only seems to show CA stores. The golf club I live on uses these, and the guys do some side work in my yard sometimes. They conveniently left 2 of these when we were cleaning up after the hurricanes.

    https://catchycan.com/products
    I like living where the Ogdens are high enough so that I'm not everyone's worst problem.- YetiMan

  15. #65
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    fuckin' baller!

  16. #66
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    I have three huge sycamore trees in the yard that typically wait till mid-December to drop their leaves. In a lot of years I have to wait till spring to get the leaves up because they get covered in snow. But for whatever reason they started dropping leaves in late September this year and I’ve just been getting them up slowly by bagging when I mow. It’s been super convenient but I’m worried about what’s going on with them, I think my cooling bill would double without them.

  17. #67
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    Quote Originally Posted by warthog View Post
    PSA-

    These things rock. No idea where to get them though, only seems to show CA stores. The golf club I live on uses these, and the guys do some side work in my yard sometimes. They conveniently left 2 of these when we were cleaning up after the hurricanes.

    https://catchycan.com/products
    I look for those every fall but I never find them either. I've also seen someone using one of these on a five-gallon utility bucket but can't find any of those.

    In the meantime these leaf bag chutes work fairly well: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leaf-Eas...LLCP/202491987
    “The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”

    - Winston Churchill, paraphrased.

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    Perfect blowing conditions… cold temps, dry leaves, and a stiff tailwind. Listening to tunes and getting paid

  19. #69
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    Quote Originally Posted by BCMtnHound View Post
    I learned recently that we have fireflies in WA, and BC as well. Haven't seen any lightup but I guess I've seen the daytime dark fireflies.

    https://www.fireflyatlas.org/pacific...yth-or-reality

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