Home-Built Broom Sweeps Gravel, Rocks Off Lawn
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During the winter Tom Feuerstein
of Algoma, Wis., uses either a snowblower or front-end loader to move snow off his gravel driveway. Some gravel always flies up onto his lawn, and he got tired of raking the gravel off by hand every spring. So he turned an old 32-in. wide, walk-behind sweeper into a power broom that mounts on front of his Deere LX188 riding mower.
“It sure beats raking by hand,” says Feuerstein. “A job that used to take 6 to 8 hours of hand raking now takes only about 1 1/2 hours, and most of that time I’m sitting down.”
The same factory belt-drive system that’s used to operate the mower and snowblower is used to operate the sweeper, as well as the snowblower and mower deck. “The snowblower mounts on a factory metal frame and belt-drive system that goes back under the tractor. “Once spring comes and I want to remove gravel from my lawn, I replace the snowblower with the sweeper.”
He picked up the sweeper free in a local city where someone was throwing it out. He stripped away everything except the brushes and metal housing. The brushes mount on a homemade shaft with a keyway at one end where he installed a pulley. He made another shaft to accept a pulley, which supports a long belt that runs back under the tractor. A pair of small idler pulleys are used to change the angle of the brush, which Feuerstein keeps at about a 20 degree angle.
The brush runs in the opposite direction as the snowblower so he had to move the pulleys over to the opposite side. A pair of small wheels that normally go on front of the mower deck are used to set the brush’s height.
“It picks up all the stones in one pass and works great,” says Feuerstein. “I built it 2 years ago and wish I would have made it long before that. It doesn’t get all the stones, but it gets about 95 percent of them.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Tom Feuerstein
, N9416 Wolf River Dr., Algoma, Wis. 54201 (tfeuerstein4@gmail.com).
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Home-Built Broom Sweeps Gravel Rocks Off Lawn FARM HOME Miscellaneous During the winter Tom Feuerstein
of Algoma Wis uses either a snowblower or front-end loader to move snow off his gravel driveway Some gravel always flies up onto his lawn and he got tired of raking the gravel off by hand every spring So he turned an old 32-in wide walk-behind sweeper into a power broom that mounts on front of his Deere LX188 riding mower “It sure beats raking by hand ” says Feuerstein “A job that used to take 6 to 8 hours of hand raking now takes only about 1 1/2 hours and most of that time I’m sitting down ” The same factory belt-drive system that’s used to operate the mower and snowblower is used to operate the sweeper as well as the snowblower and mower deck “The snowblower mounts on a factory metal frame and belt-drive system that goes back under the tractor “Once spring comes and I want to remove gravel from my lawn I replace the snowblower with the sweeper ” He picked up the sweeper free in a local city where someone was throwing it out He stripped away everything except the brushes and metal housing The brushes mount on a homemade shaft with a keyway at one end where he installed a pulley He made another shaft to accept a pulley which supports a long belt that runs back under the tractor A pair of small idler pulleys are used to change the angle of the brush which Feuerstein keeps at about a 20 degree angle The brush runs in the opposite direction as the snowblower so he had to move the pulleys over to the opposite side A pair of small wheels that normally go on front of the mower deck are used to set the brush’s height “It picks up all the stones in one pass and works great ” says Feuerstein “I built it 2 years ago and wish I would have made it long before that It doesn’t get all the stones but it gets about 95 percent of them Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Tom Feuerstein
N9416 Wolf River Dr Algoma Wis 54201 tfeuerstein4@gmail com
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