Electric garden vaccuum / leaf shredders

 
Are there any of these that are any good?  My wife is considering
an Eckman, which looks plausible, but I am a bit suspicious.
For example, sooner or later, it will pick up a stray stone.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:23:34 +0100 (BST), nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:


I prefer blowing to sucking - I've generally got so many leaves that
I'd spend hours emtying the bag. So at height of the leaf season I use
a petrol blower to get stuff into a corner and then it's easy to
collect and transfer to the pile. The lawnmower, set high, will do a
decent job of pickling up and shredding the leaves at other times
(but, again, emptying the collector's a pain in high season) and, with
the blades at their highest, I don't get grass cuttings mixed in with
the leaves.

I do have a garden vac (Handy brand came as a freebie with something
else but retails about £30-£40) which I'll use for the odds and ends,
mainly on the pavement in front of the house. That has a plastic
grinder. The occasional stone gets sucked up but you hear it straight
away. Simply release the "on" button and the stone drops out. Doesn't
seem to do any damage.

But, as I say, garden vacs aren't much good when you have lots of
leaves as the bag fills up too quickly. Plus they're a bit iffy with
wet leaves which can clog up the grinder.

Cheers, Jake
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URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay where it's about
the same moisture-wise as the more wet end.

The cat's web site is at www.pillie.me.uk.

 
Thanks for your response.

There's no way that I want the faff of such a thing - a rake is fine
for that sort of use - it's the picking up that causes my wife back
trouble.


Yes, that's what I heard.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:57:06 +0100 (BST), nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:


Might something like this solve the problem (which is presumably the
bending):

http://www.twowests.co.uk/TwoWestsSite/pages/product/product.asp?prod=DGRK&cookie%5Ftest=1

Cheers, Jake
=============================================================
URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay where it's about
the same moisture-wise as the more wet end.

The cat's web site is at  www.pillie.me.uk.

 
Assuming that it's the grabber rake (the reference doesn't work),
no, it won't.  We have a lot more leaves than that - and the reason
that I said electric is that we don't have space for a petrol
system, let alone a Billy Goat, nor do we have enough to justify one.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.