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Which garden vac to buy for a 73 year old?
Please help. I need to know how good garden vacs/blowers/shredders are for
dealing with loads of leaves. The leaves tend to get pretty wet and soggy before you can get them up. Do these electric garden vacs cope with moisture and quatities of leaves. How easy is it to empty the sacs and how heavy are things for a 73 year old woman? Fiona |
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Which garden vac to buy for a 73 year old?
"Rory" wrote in message
... Please help. I need to know how good garden vacs/blowers/shredders are for dealing with loads of leaves. The leaves tend to get pretty wet and soggy before you can get them up. Do these electric garden vacs cope with moisture and quatities of leaves. How easy is it to empty the sacs and how heavy are things for a 73 year old woman? Fiona If you get one, get one with a shredder. MIne doesn't have one and is a complete waste of time, it fills up in seconds and takes longer to undo and get out the soggy leaves than just picking them up. Much better off with a pair of those huge 'hands' you can get for picking up leaves for a few quid, or just a rake. Over a large area of gravel I can see it might be better but I dont have that problem. -- Tumbleweed Remove my socks before replying (but no email reply necessary to newsgroups) |
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Which garden vac to buy for a 73 year old?
"Rory" wrote in message
... Please help. I need to know how good garden vacs/blowers/shredders are for dealing with loads of leaves. The leaves tend to get pretty wet and soggy before you can get them up. Do these electric garden vacs cope with moisture and quatities of leaves. How easy is it to empty the sacs and how heavy are things for a 73 year old woman? Fiona We have quite a large garden with lots of nooks and crannies - our Flymo Vac is great at getting in all these places where waterproof gloves were the norm in the past. The really good bonus over a rake is that ours does shred them and makes really good leaf mould ready for the next autumn when you want to use the bin again. Emptying the bag is a bit of a dull chore and it does get quite heavy if the leaves are wet - not heavy in that a 73 year old couldn't manage, but heavy as in tiresome. You can get round this by emptying more frequently but I'm lazy and try to squeeze in as much as possible before emptying ;-) My main grumble is relocating the bag back on the machine after emptying. Of all the gadgets we have (and there are many), this seems to have been one of the most useful and reliable. If you get a Flymo one though, make sure the bag is on properly before you start again after emptying - if it isn't, it won't work and you'll try all the stuff like changing the fuse in the plug, checking it hasn't tripped on the main switchboard, swearing at it etc etc..... (damn experience!!) Good luck --A |
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Which garden vac to buy for a 73 year old?
Personally I think you want to hire a gardener who has his/her own petrol
vac/blower. I can't see many seventy-somethings being able to carry a blower/vac around for very long, let alone empty it when it gets full, and everything else that goes with it. (IMHO) Dave. |
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