mteg, too bad some people wreck things like burning for others like yourself that would do it safely. Saturday when it was so windy my neighbor was burning in an OPEN backyard pit and embers and ash were blowing everywhere.

Burning works...but there is always someone that will complaine resulting in the fire department making a trip to give you a warning. I burned mine in an enclosed fire pit...and not all at once...usually while i had a good fire going so remenants were burned quickly. If the fire is going good, you only add a little at a time, and the leaves are dry there is realitivly no smoke...and it has to be a windless night.

I'm with you Haaseman. Neighbors have parked in front of my house the last two years. I say we go back to the good old days and burn them. It smelled really good in the fall and took care of many of these problems.

Another year that they come out 2 weeks before all the leaves have dropped, forcing me to conceal the other half my leaves in the snowpiles, burn them and try not to get caught, bag them with my garbage, blow them all in the road-sharing with all on my street, etc... And no, I have no desire to spend $10 on hefty garbage bags and make 20 trips to the dump with them in my car. Common sense would suggest that if there are leaves in the trees...and no apparant snowfall, they should hold off a bit.

They made short work of the ton of leaves I had, and the whole street looks good. Great job!

This year, they did the best job that they have ever done!!
Thank-you!

When people rake leaves into the street 3 weeks in advance we end up with flooded intersections every time it rains. I have my kids rake the leaves to the edge of our lawn a couple of days before the scheduled collection date. Then, the night before collection, we rake them into the street. Pretty simple.

haaseman27- Call the cops! The Rules Of The Road clearly states that you must be at least 4 feet from a driveway. I remember that from taking driver's ed back in 1971.

Never understand all this fuss over leaves. I have lots of large trees. I just mulch mine as recommended by U.W. horticulturists, no muss no fuss, just a little raking of leaves out of shrubbery. Easy as mowing lawn. Would save tax money also.

I am thankful to my neighbors who park there car one foot from my driveway approach making it impossible for them to clean the leaves... thanks, now I have a 200 pound pile of frozen leaves next to my driveway. Maybe a midnight shovel will find them in your front yard :)

I saw the leaf crews all working today but didn't see any of the street sweepers out. I thought they all worked together to get the leaves picked up and swept before it gets worse out. Anyone know why ?

I had the first load out to the street and then THAT night the rest fell off. I thought I had until Wednessday. They went by today. Oops. It isn;t like to don't have to do this again in the Spring.
Hornet- too bad. Some people have LOTS of leaves and not a lot of time. The leaves don't all come off at once either.
I never take my trash to the curb so I will put my leaves out there!!! For $80 a year and soon to be $112 I will do this!! Oh don't forget the 20% mmore for water or is really for something else??? on the water bill.
If people aren't smart enough to know about parking/not or driving in leaves then they need to get off the road!
If the kids aren't bright enough to only play in their own leaves and know what is in them then to bad and the parents need to tell them to stay out of the leaves. Also stop messing up the pile that was just put there.

Emmo- they stated if leaves are not out past the gutter area they may leaf (lol) some behind. They do come back with sweeper too.
Again you find more by Spring anyway.
They took lots from my curb and that makes me happy I don't have to take that pile at least.

The crew did a very poor job in my neighborhood...left a awful lot of scraps...down the storm sewer they went in the rain yesterday.
I thought the broomy-brushy thing was supposed to get all that stuff.
All they used was an bobcat type of end loader on my street and only did one side since Thursday.
More tax dollars fumbled.

I despise those folks who think putting the leaves into the streets three weeks in advance is the right thing to do. I was so ecstatic one windy day when I drove by homes where those same leaves were blowing back into the yards.
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Was speaking to a friend of mine who is a former police chief who said he knows of children who have been injured playing in those leaves...who could resist playing in the street in that case?
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The road gets slippery when wet and what if snow had come early?
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The nitrogen from the leaves gets into the water runoff into the gutters, whereby the extra nitrogen goes into our waterways...more green gunk.
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Leaves get into the gutters and block them.
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Leaves can catch on fire under cars...fluids leak out onto the leaves.

Oh, I thought it was the first phase of the Rapture.

I've always wanted to use the Big Broom.
Of course, now that I'm older and wiser I want to use the robotic potbelly fixer.