"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Muddymike" writes:
|
| While vacuums do work better, I doubt that the cheap ones are any
| more effective than a rake, either.
|
| For these reasons I use a Billy Goat vacuum. Its big, its noisy, it
uses a
| lot of petrol, and the bag is a pain to empty, but it sucks up
everything in
| its path. As soon as the rain stops for long enough I shall be using
the
| Billy Goat today.

And it's not cheap. I never said that the large, expensive vacuums
didn't work!

Depends what you call "not cheap" at 120 quid off Ebay it was not expensive
either.

Mike