PICKING
UP THE
PIECES
A John Deere debris
bucket makes quick
work of cleaning up the
heavier stuff winter left
in the landscape.
Spring cleaning begins when the snow melts.
It’s amazing the variety of dreck contractors find
when the weather warms. But an array of tools
makes the job easier and more efficient.
BY DANIEL G. JACOBS MANAGING EDITOR
JEFF HILE HAS picked up leaves, pinecones,
soda cans, beer bottles, cigarettes, paper,
plastic and small rodents.
OK, the inventor of the LawnShark
doesn’t claim to, advise (or advertise) picking up small rodents, but in talking to him
one gets the feeling that if a creature didn’t
beat a hasty retreat, it would meet a gruesome fate when the debris-clearing device
passed overhead.
tions in what people really want to pick up
with it,” says Hile, director of sales for LawnShark USA. “There are some people who
want to pick up chicken manure and straw.
You can thatch your lawn with it.”
Debris management covers a wide range
of activities, from spring cleaning and leaf
pickup in the fall to clearing trees and
branches from construction sites. And while
there are scores of things to clear away,
