God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar

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JR North wrote:
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


How about an old floor buffer? Do they have brush attachments?
Randy

JR North wrote:

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


Cut down the trees?
Hire local teens to sweep?
Bribe street sweepers?
Pressure washer?

On Capitol Hill the homeowners adjacent to Volunteer Park routinely rake tree
stuff (mostly leaves) out into the street for the city to pick up. I moved up
there in 1961, it still goes on to this day ..

GWE

John Deere makes a 24" diameter x 72" wide rotary brush that mounts on
the front of their gator and is powered by a 10HP motor. It might give
you some ideas. If you go with a large rotary broom concept it will
need to be mounted to something because it would certainly out power
you manually.

Black and Decker, Toro, and others sell "power brooms" that are smaller
and can be handled manually; but it sounds like you want something more
like the "rotary brooms", which are much larger.

Like this:
http://www.toro.com/professional/sws...ris/22415.html

JR North wrote:
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar



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Know what you get when you pressure wash tree junk? That's right, 10 lbs
of tree junk turns into 25 lbs of sopping mud. With the current litgious
climate, I consider it madness to hire local teens to do anything.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

Grant Erwin wrote:

Cut down the trees?
Hire local teens to sweep?
Bribe street sweepers?
Pressure washer?

On Capitol Hill the homeowners adjacent to Volunteer Park routinely rake
tree stuff (mostly leaves) out into the street for the city to pick up.
I moved up there in 1961, it still goes on to this day ..

GWE


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On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:59:13 -0700, JR North
wrote:

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


Got a snow blower? Im sure Tom Gardner could whip you up some brush
rollers

Gunner

"I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.
As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural
patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief
in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist

On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:15:53 GMT, Gunner
wrote:
On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:59:13 -0700, JR North
wrote:

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?

Got a snow blower? Im sure Tom Gardner could whip you up some brush
rollers

That's what I was thinking, too - but snow throwers and blowers are
designed to break the snow up, and rake it toward the center of the
machine. Blowers pass it to an impeller which tosses the snow out the
chute. and throwers get the snow moving at high speed up and around
the drum and pass it to a set of turning vanes to steer it to one
side... Either way, leaves and needles are going to clog up the works
in about ten seconds.

A walk-behind single-stage snow *thrower* might work with the
impeller removed and a big brush attached, but only if you reverse the
motor so it pushes the debris forward. And for every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction - it's going to be fighting with you
every foot of the way.

On top of that, there's no easy way to adjust for brush clearance as
it wears, you have to allow for several inches of change or throw out
the brushes way too often.

You need one of those powered wire-brush drums that mounts to the
front of a Bobcat skid-steer or a small Kubota-style tractor. Now the
bare brush drum for /that/ Tom might be able to make, but the mounting
and drive mechanism is going to be your problem.

The ones I've seen being used by paving, sewer and pipeline
contractors have a hydraulic motor turning the brush drum *against*
the forward direction of travel (at roughly 40 to 90 RPM) to push the
crap forward like a push broom, and the brush can be angled either way
(with a pivot and double-acting cylinder) to push the debris toward
the curb or shoulder.

And they usually plop a molded poly water tank on top of the tractor
safety cage and rig a water spray pipe in the brush region to cut down
on the (considerable) dust thrown up in the process.

-- Bruce --

On Sun, 07 May 2006 00:09:39 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:

On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:15:53 GMT, Gunner
wrote:
On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:59:13 -0700, JR North
wrote:

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?

Got a snow blower? Im sure Tom Gardner could whip you up some brush
rollers

That's what I was thinking, too - but snow throwers and blowers are
designed to break the snow up, and rake it toward the center of the
machine. Blowers pass it to an impeller which tosses the snow out the
chute. and throwers get the snow moving at high speed up and around
the drum and pass it to a set of turning vanes to steer it to one
side... Either way, leaves and needles are going to clog up the works
in about ten seconds.

A walk-behind single-stage snow *thrower* might work with the
impeller removed and a big brush attached, but only if you reverse the
motor so it pushes the debris forward. And for every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction - it's going to be fighting with you
every foot of the way.

On top of that, there's no easy way to adjust for brush clearance as
it wears, you have to allow for several inches of change or throw out
the brushes way too often.

You need one of those powered wire-brush drums that mounts to the
front of a Bobcat skid-steer or a small Kubota-style tractor. Now the
bare brush drum for /that/ Tom might be able to make, but the mounting
and drive mechanism is going to be your problem.

The ones I've seen being used by paving, sewer and pipeline
contractors have a hydraulic motor turning the brush drum *against*
the forward direction of travel (at roughly 40 to 90 RPM) to push the
crap forward like a push broom, and the brush can be angled either way
(with a pivot and double-acting cylinder) to push the debris toward
the curb or shoulder.

And they usually plop a molded poly water tank on top of the tractor
safety cage and rig a water spray pipe in the brush region to cut down
on the (considerable) dust thrown up in the process.

-- Bruce --


Mere Details.

Shrug

Gunner
G
"I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.
As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural
patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief
in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist

Sweepster made them to fit onto most older garden tractors as well. The
one I have for my Cub Cadet is driven by a right angle gearbox from the
front PTO that drives a LARGE sprocket on the brush to gear down the
speed. The most difficult part to get would be the sweeper drum itself.
The rest is standard hardware.

There are also sweeper heads available for some weed whackers, they do a
reasonable job as long as you don't mind the DUST.
--
Steve W.

"Gunner" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 07 May 2006 00:09:39 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:

On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:15:53 GMT, Gunner
wrote:
On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:59:13 -0700, JR North

wrote:

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my
driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it.
Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock
would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose
I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?

Got a snow blower? Im sure Tom Gardner could whip you up some brush
rollers

That's what I was thinking, too - but snow throwers and blowers are
designed to break the snow up, and rake it toward the center of the
machine. Blowers pass it to an impeller which tosses the snow out
the
chute. and throwers get the snow moving at high speed up and around
the drum and pass it to a set of turning vanes to steer it to one
side... Either way, leaves and needles are going to clog up the
works
in about ten seconds.

A walk-behind single-stage snow *thrower* might work with the
impeller removed and a big brush attached, but only if you reverse
the
motor so it pushes the debris forward. And for every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction - it's going to be fighting with you
every foot of the way.

On top of that, there's no easy way to adjust for brush clearance
as
it wears, you have to allow for several inches of change or throw out
the brushes way too often.

You need one of those powered wire-brush drums that mounts to the
front of a Bobcat skid-steer or a small Kubota-style tractor. Now
the
bare brush drum for /that/ Tom might be able to make, but the
mounting
and drive mechanism is going to be your problem.

The ones I've seen being used by paving, sewer and pipeline
contractors have a hydraulic motor turning the brush drum *against*
the forward direction of travel (at roughly 40 to 90 RPM) to push the
crap forward like a push broom, and the brush can be angled either
way
(with a pivot and double-acting cylinder) to push the debris toward
the curb or shoulder.

And they usually plop a molded poly water tank on top of the
tractor
safety cage and rig a water spray pipe in the brush region to cut
down
on the (considerable) dust thrown up in the process.

-- Bruce --


Mere Details.

Shrug

Gunner
G
"I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.
As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural
patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief
in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist



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"JR North" wrote in message
.. .
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called the
local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would say:
"Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I could whip
something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


http://www.minutemanintl.com/

Lawn sweepers may not be exactly what you're looking for but they might give
you a few ideas. As the name says they work well on grass but I've never
tried one on pavement.

V. McNeil

Consider your lawn mower. The blade cuts and shoots the clippings into the
bag. First try and adjust the height of the mower and mow your driveway.
If that doesn't work perhaps you can make a blade with a little more lift to
suck up the tree stuff.


--

__
Roger Shoaf

Important factors in selecting a mate:
1] Depth of gene pool
2] Position on the food chain.



"JR North" wrote in message
.. .
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar

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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar

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Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive
The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me
No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses
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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."
I think, after reading some of the other posts, that what you *really*
need is a good chainsaw.... G
Ken.

God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar

A front tine rototiller with brushes installed and pulled backwards behind
your tractor? You could leave the wheels on and use the skeg arm to attach
it to the tractor and have an adjustment up to the handlebats to set the
amount of contact for the brushes. You would probably need some way to set
it at an angle so it sweeps to one side.
Or if ya want to walk behind it. Use the same type brushes with a bagger
behind for the tree junk to fly into and adjust how fast it travels over the
driveway by how ya hold the handles. Sorta like one of the old gas powered
reel mowers.

My favorite way to get rid of that stuff is with a blower and my chipper.
The chipper has a chute that drops down so you can blow stuff into it or
rake it into it. I put some side boards on the intake chute to make a
bigger target. It is a 10HP chipper/shredder and has a bagger attachment.
It always amazes me how I can put a good sized truckload of tree junk into a
garbage bage or two. I usually just set it to blow someplace I want the
chips to be like the garden and blow all the tree junk to it.

Glenn

--Um, how long *is* your driveway anyway?

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75'
JR
Dweller in the cellar
think i'd be snivelling over a mere square?

steamer wrote:
--Um, how long *is* your driveway anyway?



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On Mon, 08 May 2006 10:21:04 -0700, JR North wrote:
75'
JR
think i'd be snivelling over a mere square?

Ah, so it's like a driveway, only shorter. (600', I hire it done)

Sounds like a snow plow with a brush...

Martin (never used a snow plow before)
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
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NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
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JR North wrote:
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called
the local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would
say: "Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I
could whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


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echo has a trimmer system that lets you mount different attachments, one of
which is a brush head

"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...
Sounds like a snow plow with a brush...

Martin (never used a snow plow before)
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JR North wrote:
God, I'm tired of manually scraping 1-2" of tree junk off my driveway.
What I need is a gas powered push type reel-mower type thing with a
rotating bristle brush up front to blast the junk ahead of it. Called the
local rental place: "$40 for 4 hours (sucker)". As Chris Rock would say:
"Good Lowd, that's alota money". Checked HF; no go. I suppose I could
whip something up- another project on the long list.
Ideas? source for a drum shaped bristle brush?
JR
Dweller in the cellar


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