Garden electric vacuum

You could simply use a vaccuum cleaner - like a henry

without a bag

I guess if there's sucking there's got to be blowing somewhere: where else will the air go?

Max Demian wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:

Into a very big balloon?

I don't understand. I can't see how it can suck and blow at the same time through the one pipe. Although I don't have one, my late mother had a Flymo vacuum/blower (before that she simply used the domestic Hoover on the lawn!). There was an internal flap that was changed over from suck to blow by pulling a string to move the flap. On suck, the leaves were directed into a coarse-woven bag. Is yours something like that? If so, is it properly moving over from one position to the other, or does it stick half way?

Well my petrol blower/vac handled it very well, by blowing into a part of the machine well away from the vacuum area!

We have 2 oak trees in the garden, and use the rotary mower with the height set high to vacuum the leaves up. Works a treat. Have tried leaf suckers in the past but they always seem to get clogged up and need emptying forever.

I take on board what everyone says,but why is there a switch to move from vacuum to blow, it seems to do nothing!

Balanced flue?

Although I don't have one, my late mother

n my old Flymo there is a 3-position setting at the end of the nozzle - vacuum, blow, and vacuum/blow. In the latter position, there is a thin jet directed forward to loosen leaves and "blow" them into the air a little so they can be sucked by the vacuum into the collection bag (via a shredding "strimmer" just before the collection bag). I assume modern versions can do the same thing.

Not wanting to state the obvious here but do not all vacuums blow the other end, the point is does it have a way to take up the leaves and put them somewhere.

Brian

Would that be electrically safe, remember leaves are wet. Brian

Bagpipes, that is the answer quite obviously, Get a set of bagpipes and serenade the neighbours while sucking up the leaves. Brian

Of course many indoor vacuums use a lot of their power in pumping air through filters to stop the muck coming straight through and out the back. I suppose this approach could be done for gardens, but the dampness of the debris that might get through could easily, and very quickly clog up the filters. The answer maybe is a chimney type appendage to make the blowing air come up very high in the are away from the leaves. Brian

The presenter on todays final 2018 program at 'the Beechgrove' (*) was testing an electric leaf blower/vacuum.

It seemed pretty useless at sucking, but he admitted the leaves were wet.

Available on the iPlayer.

(*) Scottish BBC gardening program.

Keeps your plums warm

Andrew wrote in news:pr4tmk$1plh$2 @gioia.aioe.org:

Down the Neutral Wire?