DIY Leaf Bagger | Ride on Lawnmower Hack
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2020
- In this video, I show you (after a few attempts), how to make your own DIY leaf bagger for a ride on lawnmower.
Materials used
Old rubbermaid containers
Window screen
3/4in plywood
Screws
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This is one of the most epic repairs we've seen. Keep em coming! 💪
😁😁 Couldn’t have done it without Flex Seal!!
Hope they send you free products and a t shirt for your next vid... I made a bagger out of landscape drain 2 oversized blue bins and a window screen last year
I once used flex tape in a pinch when I was out of condoms. Look for video coming soon .
@@jasonredepenning uhh
@@Coleschonfielddd Don't ever use alien tape in a bind for this sort of thing. Especially if you both have pubic hairs.
Awesome job, good to see someone showing a do-it-yourself without using $500,000 worth of shop tools.
Right
$50 versus a $400 bagger can't go wrong with that I think if the vent screen was in the cover it would work even better awesome job
Thanks for that tip friend.
Every mod you make you’re getting closer to what my factory bagger setup looks like. Smooth pipe vs corrugated would improve airflow. As the others said, moving the vent to the hole you already have in the top would help too and prevent the lid from trying to come off. Nice job on creating the template and then making the final version from it.
I love watching innovation at work. A problem, a solution, and the tools and thought to make it happen. Great job!
Thanks, Chris! I appreciate it!
Very resourceful. I bought a second-hand John Deere Tractor that has a bagger system on it. What I don't like about it is the bags are cloth and they spew dust everywhere. I thought of finding a Craftsman system since theirs have plastic bins on them and retrofit my system. But, you just gave me an idea to make one myself. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us!!
Looks like a skit from The Red Green show. If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. Good show, good video.
Haha 😂😁 Love it! And that is actually a huge compliment, so thank you for that, Jim!
True. It does.
I love that show lol. Let's just say I tend to fall in the latter category
No nerdy nephew, your argument is invalid.
Jk
Keep your stick on the ice.
I love seeing someone tackle a problem with a little thought & a lot of ingenuity. Well done!
You might also move the air outlet to the top or higher up the side to allow exhaust air to exit more freely as the receptacle fills.
You got my comment
Don't know what your mechanical background is , but ; I will give you credit for a really great job on your project !!! I am a retired metal worker , fabricator , by trade and you have obviously achieved the desired end to your project. Sometimes it takes some trial and error adjustment when starting from scratch with a new idea and you made very few mistakes especially considering what you started out with. Great Job , and keep on pursuing your ideas and sharing them on You Tube . You don't know who you may encourage enough with an idea or a plan that may inspire someone else to achieve their dream !!! Thanks for posting !!
Got a new sub brother! I'm in the same boat this year after spending too many additional hrs cleaning grass clippings and leaves. A 90 min job turns into 3 hrs after going over it multiple times cleaning up clippings or collecting leaves.
Being that I have all the necessary equipment I'll be trying this this coming weekend!! I'm all about diy with stuff like this too and this is perfect. Great video!
I have swapped out regular mower blades for "high lift" blades with good results. These blades create more wind to take leaves up the chute. Enjoyed your video. I like your honesty re the tips section.
Very inspirational for a guy who doesnt like to buy the retail version but instead engineer it. Great prototype and then explanation for more functional modifications! Thanks!!!
Dude, you just made my day. I've been trying to figure out a leaf capturing solution for my 1990's cub cadet, and this is absolutely motivating. I'm going to give it a shot. Keep up the clever ideas!
I made something very similar to this years ago. I found that when the air has an easy path to escape [via the container], then everything worked much better. I had 2 screened openings/vents for the air to escape; 1 on the top and one on the side with the main vent [larger], on the top which worked the best.
Wow! Ingenuity at it’s best! Your my favorite dude. I’m going out to see if I can retrofit mine. As a single woman with a house, I’m just trying to make do. Thank you. You help more than you know. 😍
That is so great to hear, Cheryl! Very happy to hear my videos help you. Thanks for always watching!
Thank you for sharing your project with all of us on UA-cam. You did a very nice job. We all got some awesome ideas, thanks again. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for going through the troubleshooting to improve your leaf bagger. Saved us a lot of time.
Great Job . I like the simplicity of your product design and how you added tips to help viewers reproduce an economical grass catcher.
That was awesome I thought about doing that myself but now that I seen you do it and how you did it it's going to make it a lot easier appreciate it those are like 200 and more to buy!
It ain't wrong if it works! Proof of concept is this guy built it and it does work. Truly not a bad design at all. Probably some improvements could make it better but hey, it works! Thanks for sharing this video.
Cool! Thanks for sharing your project. I have been contemplating purchasing a bagger system for our Cub Cadet, but like you said they are expensive. Now I am pondering if I should D-I-Y my own bagger system.
Snagged one for my Ryobi Electric riding mower for $168 at a second hand store. Found out later it was for a zero turn. It works well but I'll be modifying it slightly to make it a little better when I get time! I believe your conclusions are spot on with the flow it your design. I'm not sure if you have bagging blades but they will help significantly as well.
Damn I don't know what's more epic, the fact that you went all out by even painting it or that awesome music!
Interesting. I've been messing around with a similar concept for two seasons and even bought some of the same materials.
My experiment starts with my Stihl leaf blower (using it as a vacuum), runs through a pipe to the trash can. My primary interest is quick and easy shredding, containerized, then used for compost.
What I've learned thus far is that a smooth pipe works better than a ribbed pipe and that the Sthil creates so much force, I can't keep the cover on the trashcan.
So, back to the drawing board.😉
I've been wanting to do this,but with a trailer I have. We have a lot of leaves in the fall! Put mesh on the hole in the lid, increasing the flow. And you would see when it's full.
Great video I respect a person who comes up with an idea and isn't just satisfied with it working and wants to make it better
Would love to see this for Zero Turns. You got my creative juices flowing now. Thanks! Cheers!
That is awesome man. I love your ingenuity.
I'll give this guy some credit for being creative about his problem this video has provided some idea's for my own situation having self propelled leaf blower this idea would
work great thanks.
I’m actually impressed to be honest, solid job
Awesome and great job. I agree that I do love the flex tape, lol. Can't get get enough of how to videos. I hate raking leaves even though I have a small lot. Anyway, I will watch ur other videos. Thanks.
Really clever ! I love your stick-to-it-ivness! My favorite part is how you took the time to spray paint the whole thing black - nice touch!!
Nice job man, been thinking about doing the same thing, I'm fortunate enough to already have a used shout. Thanks for the tips on where/how to attach on the collector!
Brilliant! I need that for sure. Thanks for sharing your idea and giving a really good tutorial as well.
There's nothing like a DIY solution. Great job.
Great job! A little imagination will go a long way to solve a big problem! You just saved yourself a LOT of money! I might have to try to make one of these myself!
Thanks for sharing!
Good luck if you do! Thanks for watching!
I built a similar leaf collector. I used a plastic 50 gallon barrel. I put a door on the bottom rear of the barrel do I can get the leaves out.
It works best to mow the leaves first to break them down, then go back over with the collector system and pick them up.
Mine works really well. I then have to figure out how to get the leaves into my trailer to haul to the composting facility out city has.
The piping works the same as a furnace heat line. The straighter the pipe the more air flow you get. The more elbows you install the lower the air flow. Nice job👍
This is incredible I love it. You’re like Bill Nye the science guy and Red Green rolled into one. Bravo 👏 😎
😁😁😂 Haha I love it! Thanks so much for checking it out, Christine!
I am super impressed man. That was pretty awesome. I'm looking for one for my walk behind 33 but I'm afraid to put the time in to do this.
Love to watch creative problem solving in action!! Great idea - great thinking!!
thanks. great tips as I'm going to try this myself. going to try to have a recepticle that house 2 of the paper bags we have to use now, to fill them up.
There’s a Genius inside of everyone great job bro
Excellent home build on a budget! Outstanding results
If you could figure out how to make the airflow work while putting the inlet and the vent / outlet in the lid of the garbage can then you could run a bag inside the can for easier cleanup.
Love the video, especially your templating process and how you used the tote including the corner sections, that was slick.
Mad props to you bro. Cool calm intuitive and genius. Thanks for sharing and doing the R&D on it for everyone. Simple design with corrections you made and make it look easy. Hope I can do it and replicate the results. Thanks again.
Hey, thanks! Good luck with the project!
Would love an update on how it has lasted. Thanks for recording your process!
It’s likely gone to shit.
@@greenidguy9292 maybe not
Dude, thats Awesome. I didn't want to spend a $1000.00 bucks on a bag system for my John Deere mower. But this is Awesome. I got to try to do this. Thanks
Well done! You're so clever! I wouldn't have been able to come up with all of that. It was great seeing how you put it all together.
Thanks so much, Sharon!!
He started making the pieces out of plastic bins and I was like....no he didn't.......🥰
Totally Incredibly Freakin' Awesome! Most Amazing Mod from a riding mower to a leaf bagger I have ever seen! Kudos.
Well freakin' done. Collecting and shredding leaves is such a pain in the butt trying to get a grip on. I don't know how to do this with my old john deer but maybe your ideas will help. Thanks!
I'm gonna get my husband to work right away cause I need that contraption! Clever guy!!!
This is by far the coolest video I’ve watched today. Maybe even today AND yesterday.
I had a factory one that would always clog up in the tube. Got a tow behind lawn sweeper. Works much better. Best to mow the leaves first, then sweep them up.
Yes, I agree a once over before cleaning up works well! Thanks for watching!
That's an awesome idea and looked like it worked really well! And yes, that was A LOT of flex tape lol. Keep it up!
😁 Thanks for watching, Auto Fix!
Make a version 2. With what you learned from this im sure the next one would be extra great!
High lift blades meant for use with a grass catcher make a lot of difference. I have a grass catcher on my John Deere mower, if everything was perfect the standard blades worked pretty well, but if was a bit taller or there was a little moisture the hose clogged up all the time, high lift blades took care of the problem.
Good on you man! There are many baggers out there but this one is yours!
Still always finding your different videos and always pretty impressive
Enjoyed the thought process Matt.
I just made a cover to seal up the opening where the grass comes out and just mulched my leaves and I have big oak tree leaves. Works great.
I am with you. I just bought a $38 mulch plug and let the leaves go back in the soil. Good project though. I worry about the light weight plastic at the discharge area.
Nice Job Buddy.
Bagging systems start out and a $1,000.00.
Very impressed on the ingenuity.
👊🏼🧔🇺🇸
Very creative! Nice work on that deck adapter.
Excellent man! Really enjoyed the thought process. Good job man!
That's great. I have a very expensive lawn vacuum that has been used three times. I got a welder to retrofit the "universal" shoot the manufacturer claimed would fit, then my big mower threw a rod. Maybe I can do this with my smaller mower once I fix some contractor screw ups down here in Florida.
I enjoyed every second of it. Best Part was your paint and flex tape already fucked up after first test. Then the ultimate pro tip nobody could ever have thought of. Comedy Gold!
I like how you approach things! Great vid!
Great hands-on work.... well made video!
Man, the jigsaw master!
Incredible job!
Wow awesome. I thought I was gonna buy a kit, but definitely building this.
Very cool. There's one thing you forgot about that will make this work even better. Install some "high lift" bagging/mulching blades on your mower. Combined with this, that mower will even pick up pine needles.
Fantastic - so simple - great project - thanks for sharing
My friend you probably have a soldering gun it works great as welding gun to heat the plastic and melt them together also use some additional strips of plastic to act as you filler rods. Cheers🇨🇦
Awesome! That flex seal tape must be amazing.
Dude, you did a great job. Thanks for sharing, I love your videos 🙋🏾♀️🙂
😁 Thanks, Carla! Really appreciate that!
Thanx. Great video. I am definitely going to do this to my troy built.
You ARE a genius!
Love your work & great ideas!
😁😁 Awesome to hear! Thanks for the feedback and for checking out the video, Melinda!
This is a fun video. I like the way you solve problems.
Fixer, nicely done. Thanks for the great trial & error ideas. You saved me $500!
Glad to hear & thanks for watching! 😃
You also want a super high lift blade(s), cant remember where i got mine from but it will pick up every think. I cant remember the last time I dethatched my St Augustine, what I do is my 1st 4 weekly cuts (in early spring) I use my high lift blade, cut lower than normal for each area. My wife likes a high cut so normal is 5" and I cut it around 2".
I have the same Craftsman rider, I will try this. Great video!!
It makes me want to build one .and modify my wife's lawn tracker thanks for the video 👍
Path to least resistance... AWESOME 😎
Nice job. I wonder if putting screen on top would be better, and place a deflector just past the input chute to direct leaves to bottom. The smoother the pipe the better too.
Clever and créative man. Bravo. Its useful and its work.
The idea is amazing and I think if you put a heavy-duty bag in there you would save time by just begging it up and sticking it on the curb. I'm going to try this idea thank you
Great idea,good job,I suggest more ventilation on your tank to reduce back pressure to tank which will allow the grass cuttings to flow more freely. You need to start your own mfg company and market your product. Trial and error are the key to success brother! A new unit for my scag is 2000 dollars and you have that beat by a mile! Great job,great innovation. This is your calling!
Jesus a bagger just for a regular lawnmower is like $80.
OK, raking it is!
Nice work and video!
Nice and very ingenious! When I saw you buy a garbage can I thought now that's a first!
Thanks for putting this up!
😁👍 Thanks for the feedback and for checking out the video!
Awesome video I think I'm gonna do the same with my zero turn but I'm gonna try pvc pipe and see if it being smooth and straight will give it better flow
Immediately subscribed and gonna build this. Cause I want my leaves for compost
You should make a real mock up and patent this! People would spend good money on this product. Good luck!
Hey that's not a bad idea! 👍👍 Thanks for watching, Shelby!
Someone has already done it. That's why we have real ones that are sold???? 🤣
I thought I was resourceful but you my man are amazing great job!
Thanks, Ken!!
Go over your leaves and mulch them first. You'll get alot more in your can. Chops them up about to a 10:1 ratio.. duck tape over your deck discharge if you don't have a mulching kit. I mow 44 yards after work. That's what I've found works good for me
Very nice :-) I’m sure you enjoyed making it, glad it worked 😊🎃.
I have the Poulan pro version of your mower. Yer givin' me ideas! I'm going to try it out of sheet metal.
Nicely conceived and clearly presented. Thanks for the insight.
Thanks for sharing. An excellent job.
Well done amigo! Loved it!