Three weeks ago, I covered the cars and Harley, winterized the house and shop, jumped in the Explorer van and headed down here to our 34 acre place in Florida. I hope to never see another snow-flake as long as I live. Weather down here has been great. Having some cattle delivered today. Got all the brush-hogging and mowing done. Going to be another great Winter down here!

Sounds GREAT !! Got room for a small travel trailer to set up...:wink:

You in the northern half of the peninsula ?

----As of yesterday all the cars and boats are put safely away. Still need to winterize 2 of the boats, but they are in a heated building and will be done by this weekend. Now time to rake and burn, which I truly hate. I'd almost rather have a root canal!.....Bill S

I hate racking and burning too. Bought a vacuum/shredder 10 years ago. We have acreage and dump the shredded leaves out back for compost. I have the Premier 240 size, works great.
https://www.drpower.com/power-equipm...hind-leaf-vacs

How often does it get plugged up? I’ve considered these before but my experience w different models brought lots of frustration as they always plugged at the chute

Until last week...never. Last week we had near constant rain in some amount for 3 days and ALL the leaves came down in that time period. We were predicted to have freezing temps overnight and only mid thirties for the next 3 days after that, so I vacuumed the leaves wet, before they froze down. I had water running out of the tube, shredder impeller and the discharge screen on the trailer. I can't blame the vacuum for what I subjected it too and it still did far better than I had hoped. It has a 6 hp engine spinning a heavy, fabricated, shredder and it pulls a LOT of vacuum thru the 8" tube. No complaints from me on it's performance for 10 years.

NAPA68

I love your shop!! :worship:

Plenty of room, but the owner (me) doesn't take too kindly to neighbors, so there is that!

I'm about 20 miles West of Ocala, small town called Dunnellon.

I know exactly where Dunnellon is. I almost bought a winter home on 5 acres there 4 years ago. Then we decided to move up here and put an end to the winter home thing...:frown:
We have a VRBO rental in Homosassa for 3 weeks in Feb. I plan on going to The Garlits Museum one day during that time. Been 15 years, or so, since I was there last.

Hi Tony! Hope all is well with you :biggthumpup: