Leaf Management
Leaf Management
Leaf and light debris management
Effective leaf management is crucial for maintaining the safety and performance of various surfaces, especially during the autumn months when leaf fall is at its peak. Leaves can quickly accumulate, leading to clogged drainage systems, slippery surfaces, and even surface damage due to decomposition. Especially on hard surfaces, leaves can decompose into detritus, forming a slippery, hazardous layer that can compromise safety and surface integrity. Proper leaves management not only ensures the longevity of your surfaces but also reduces hazards caused by wet, decaying leaves. Tools such as sweepers, leaf blowers, and vacuum nozzle can simplify this process, helping you clear leaves efficiently and prevent long-term damage to your property.
Managing Leaves Effectively: A Comprehensive Approach
Managing leaves effectively requires a well-thought-out plan, particularly for large areas such as parks, schools, or hospitals. Begin by identifying trees that will shed the most leaves and consider pruning branches to reduce leaf fall. Establish catchment areas to prevent leaves from migrating onto hard surfaces, where they can decompose and cause damage. Proper planning ensures that leaves are handled efficiently, reducing risks and maintaining surface quality throughout the season.
For general maintenance, a sweeper is highly effective. Sweepers can cover broad surfaces, collecting leaves and debris quickly and efficiently. They are ideal for various surfaces, ensuring that your property remains clean and well-maintained.
For large areas or high-traffic zones, such as highways or large parks, a leaf blower is more suitable. These can be attached to ride-on mowers and tractors to quickly remove large volumes of leaves, including wet leaves, from roads and transfer them to grass surfaces. Blowing leaves and debris onto soft, natural surfaces makes subsequent maintenance easier, as sweeping roads and maintaining surfaces becomes more manageable. This approach helps prevent buildup issues and ensures a cleaner, safer environment.
The vacuum nozzle is ideal for large-area material removal on various surfaces and can be equipped with a Matev collector or trailer, ensuring efficient collection and removal. Using these tools helps prevent long-term damage to your property and maintains a clean, safe environment.
Managing leaves with leaf blowers
Lightweight, quiet, and robust
Leaf blowers are essential tools for maintaining clear pathways, but their noise levels can pose significant concerns for both ground maintenance professionals and the public. Traditional leaf blowers often exceed 100 dB, causing disruptions and potential hearing damage for operators.
Find your pedestrian, ride-on mowers, and tractor-mounted blowers here.
This is our range of professional tractor mounted blowers for compact and sub‐compact tractors. The LBV has a light weight, dynamically balanced aluminium fan producing an air velocity of maximum 230 km/h allowing even wet heavy material to be lifted from the surface and blown up to 8 meters. Very low noise is achieved with the use of inlet and outlet silencers and a one piece plastic fan housing. The resulting sound‐pressure at the ear of the operator is < 84dB allowing the use of the LBV without the need of ear protection, allowing use in more built up areas.
Managing leaves with sweeper
Efficient and Versatile for Comprehensive Leaf Management
Sweepers are essential for large-scale leaf management, making them perfect for extensive areas like parks, schools, and roadways. They effectively handle substantial volumes of leaves and debris, thanks to their integrated collector box, which simplifies debris collection and disposal. This feature reduces manual handling and streamlines the cleanup process. Additionally, sweepers offer the advantage of simultaneously sweeping and collecting debris, ensuring streets and large surfaces are thoroughly cleaned. This dual functionality speeds up maintenance, improves safety, and enhances the appearance of your environment.
Discover the benefits of using a sweeper for efficient grounds maintenance here and explore our collector box for streamlined leaf collection.
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Advanced Brush Design
Kersten sweepers feature a 5-spiral row brush with gaps between rows, allowing it to handle larger volumes of heavy debris more efficiently than traditional brushes. The spiral pattern requires less power to move material, making it effective for heavy-duty tasks. Additionally, the brush is available in both standard nylon and a specialized de-mossing option for targeted moss removal, providing versatility for different cleaning needs.
Height Adjustment and Angling
The height of the brush can be finely adjusted using rear castors, optimizing performance on various surfaces and reducing wear. This feature, combined with the ability to angle the brushes to sweep forward, left, or right, ensures precise material collection and adaptability to different cleaning requirements, including wind-rowing.
Versatile Accessories
Kersten sweepers can be equipped with a range of accessories to enhance performance. The collector box is height-adjustable, making it easy to handle and ideal for collecting heavy debris like soil and moss. The gully brush accessory helps clear edges and corners by pulling material into the path of the main brush, ensuring thorough and effective cleaning.
Managing leaves with vacuum nozzle
Collecting large amount of material effectively
The Matev vacuum nozzle is ideal for large-area material removal on various surfaces. It can be equipped with a Matev collector or trailer, ensuring efficient material removal. This tool is particularly suited for situations where large volumes of material need to be collected and transported off-site for disposal or composting.
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Robust Vacuum System
The Matev vacuum sweeper is designed to handle large volumes of material across a variety of surfaces. The powerful suctions ensure effective collection of leaves, debris, and even heavier materials, making it ideal for large areas like parks, highways, or industrial sites. The system can also handle wet materials, offering year-round functionality and minimizing surface buildup.
Flexible Collection Options
Equipped with either a Matev collector or trailer, the vacuum sweeper provides versatile options for material storage and removal. This feature is particularly useful for sites where large amounts of material need to be collected and transported efficiently. The system can be customized based on the size and needs of the area, providing optimal flexibility.
Durable Construction with Enhanced Edge Cleaning
The Matev vacuum sweeper boasts a robust design, crafted from high-quality materials to endure rigorous use in various conditions. Its durable construction ensures reliability even when handling challenging materials like wet leaves or heavy debris, minimizing the need for frequent maintenance and replacement. Additionally, the sweeper can be equipped with optional side brooms, available with steel or mixed steel/perlon trim. These side brooms extend the working width, allowing for precise cleaning of edges and ensuring comprehensive coverage with no spots left untouched.
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Leaf management is crucial to prevent safety hazards and property damage. Accumulated leaves can lead to slippery surfaces, clogged drainage systems, and surface deterioration. Proper management helps maintain safety and extend the life of your surfaces.
Sweepers are especially effective in managing leaves, particularly when they have decomposed into detritus and mixed with other debris. This type of buildup can create hazardous, slippery surfaces and promote weed growth. Sweepers, such as those found in our sweepers collection, can handle this challenge efficiently. Their robust design is capable of clearing and collecting decomposed leaf matter and other debris. When equipped with a collector box, sweepers not only clean the surface but also gather and contain the detritus, preventing it from being spread around or left behind. This helps maintain a clean, safe environment and minimizes surface damage caused by accumulated detritus.
A gully brush helps clear edges and corners by pulling material into the path of the main brush, ensuring thorough cleaning. It is a useful accessory for improving the efficiency of your sweeper. Find out more about the gully brush.
Leaf blowers are especially effective in high-traffic areas as they can quickly clear leaves and debris, making surfaces safer and more accessible. They are ideal for use with ride-on mowers and tractors for efficient large-area cleaning. Explore our leaf blower series for options.