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Raking and Bagging Leaves, and Moving Lawn Bags

Raking leaves is a natural and enjoyable part of the Fall season, as well as being an important chore for good lawn maintenance. It is good physical activity, building upper body strength and strengthening your back and stomach.

It is important to alternate sides, that is, changes hands, when raking leaves, in order to balance the load and strain on your body. Ten minutes on a side is a good rule of thumb, but judge by the feeling in your muscles instead of the clock. Don’t overdo it on either side without a rest.

While you can strain your back with over-zealous raking, the greater danger comes after the raking is completed and you begin bagging and removing the leaves. Lifting weights that you are not used to can strain your back muscles seriously and quickly. It can happen in an instant, and you are more vulnerable after you have been working these muscles with your raking activity.

You should be careful when bagging the leaves to not overfill the bags and get them too heavy to lift, but even bags that are not overloaded can often strain your back because of your position as you lift the loaded bags.

It is common to use wheelbarrows or garden carts to move loaded lawn bags, but people will also drag full bags, or put leaves on a tarp and drag the tarp to dispose of the leaves. The problem with these solutions is that the bag is easily torn, and the tarp can be awkward to handle.

A better solution is to use a new garden tool known as the BIGSLIDER™. This is a 2 by 5 foot piece of tough, slick plastic designed specifically for these kinds of tasks. Grab the comfortable 1 inch diameter handle, and you can easily slide your loaded lawn bags (or heavy pots and mulch bags) over grass, concrete, rocks, sand, mud, bricks or wooden decking -- without waiting for help. This convenient tool can move multiple pots or up to six 39-gal fully packed lawn and leaf bags in one trip.

You can watch a short video illustrating how to use the BIGSLIDER™ to easily rake up and bag a big load of leaves. Note the large volume of leaves that can be handled with little effort and how using two of these handy tools makes the job so much easier!