BALING ATTACHMENT FOR LAWN MOWERS

A lawn and garden type tractor has a belly-mounted rotary lawn mower with a side discharge opening communicating with the forward end of a generally fore-and-aft tubular auger housing. An auger is journaled in the housing and is rotated by a drive connected to and driven by the mower drive, so that it moves material discharged by the mower unit through the rearward open end of the auger housing and into a relatively large enclosure supported alongside the rear wheel of the tractor. The material can be compressed directly into the enclosure, which can be dumped, or it can be compressed into a plastic bag or liner mounted within the enclosure with its open end over the outlet end of the auger housing, the bags, or liners being removable from the enclosure when they are filled with the compacted material.