How to Pick Up Grass Clippings and Leaves with a Lawn Sweeper

Lawn sweepers operate with brushes underneath that pickup lawn flotsam and jetsam and flip it into a hopper. The procedure is the same as a vacuum cleaner, but the brushes turn manually as you push a walk-behind sweeper. You may use a lawn sweeper to clean the yard after mowing it or to clean fallen leaves and flotsam and jetsam. An accumulation of dead grass and leaves on your lawn squares daylight and air from the grass and can kill the lawn. The way toward using a lawn sweeper takes little time and your lawn will thank you for it.

1. Put on leather work gloves to shield your hands from thistles or sharp articles. Pick up all branches, rocks, pinecones and other large trash in the area. Lawn sweepers will remove small twigs, grass clippings, and leaves, but not large things.

2. Mow your lawn as you normally would. Lawn sweepers work better on newly mowed grass that is all the same height.

3. Adjust the brush height on a lawn sweeper to the same height as the grass. Some models have a dial to turn or a handle to push ahead or backward for brush adjustments. Look under the sweeper and move the adjustment apparatus until the brushes contact the grass.

4. Start pushing the lawn sweeper in one corner of your lawn. Travel in paths back and forward across the lawn in inverse ways of either north to south or east to west. At the finish of a path turn the lawn sweeper around and place the tires in the track of the completed path to overlap each path somewhat for good coverage. Walk at a medium pace about at the speed as if you are pushing mowing your lawn.

5. Spread a large tarp on the ground on an area that you have cleared when the hopper is brimming with trash. Push the lawn sweeper to the tarp. Dump the substance of the sweeper container onto the tarp. There may be a string or a handle to destroy that opens the hopper to store the substance of the hopper.

6. Fold the tarp in half with the substance inside. Open a lawn and leaf bag with the opening facing upward. Pour the grass clippings and leaves inside the bag. Alternately, you may store the flotsam and jetsam in a compost heap or green receptacle.

7. Continue sweeping the lawn in paths and emptying the hopper until you have covered the entire lawn in paths.

Things You Will Need

Leather work gloves
Lawnmower
Tarp
Lawn and leaf bags (optional)
Compost heap (optional)

Tips

Walk-behind lawn sweepers are reasonable and available at home improvement and garden focuses. Tow-behind lawn sweepers attach to a riding mower and operate similarly. Most have a draw rope that you access while on the mower to open the hopper and empty it without leaving your seat. Lawn sweepers are not productive on wet grass. Allow your lawn to dry a day or so after rainfall before sweeping it.

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