Leaf “vacuum” recommendations

[woody paul]

If just grass areas mower is the best.

[Ratman]

If just grass areas mower is the best.

Alright woody paul, home is more flagged areas, my dads is mainly grassed areas with flagged paths, and then there is always the other odd phone call here and there...... can ya just [emoji30] ya know how it is!

[Coletti]

Hey stubby, yeah i could get away with the blowing in to a pile scenario, which is fine for myself at home as i have a lot of flagged areas, but i often end up going round to my dads and clearing up after all his tree leaf falls [emoji30] his garden is far greater than mine and a lot more intricate too. I’ve looked at the billy goats you mention and makita etc. But being a stihl man [emoji6] i’ve also spotted the SH56C-E at £230 and for a little extra but with slightly better spec and accessories the SH86C-E at £255 so quite tempted ?‍♂️ like the added / built in mulcher function of them too, which obviously condenses the amount of crap retrieved etc which would stop daddy dearest also commenting that his green bin is full [emoji39] what ya think?

Wouldn't touch either of them as a leaf vacuum, if you want that style get the echo equivalent, I've used bother the echo and the stihl sh86 side by side and the echo is twice the machine as a vacuum

[Steven P]

1 hour ago, woody paul said:

If just grass areas mower is the best.

I did mine with the mower at the weekend, blades set on highest setting to keep the grass OK it did the job, and it works on flagged areas. Remember you're not cutting the grass you're using the blades to suck up the leaves (I often 'mow' things off the drive and often wood chippings where I have split logs too).

[Stere]

 

 

Could do with this have a relative has a 1/2 mile drive with sycamores along both sides, it can full more than 10 builders bags. Mowers are good though as chopped leaves rot faster take less volume, but with so many leaves the mower bag fulls in 5 seconds ?

[Jack.P]

Stihl blower sucker attachment very slow waste of time .best bet to get nice big leaf rake biggest one available and some builders bags some can possibly be mowed up as well .usually takes me about half hour to get a bag full

[daveatdave]

I used to suck leaves up with the hand held stop to empty the bag about every 60 seconds if there was a lot of leaves and if you was doing borders it sucked the soil up and sanded the impeller ends down now I just blow them into a heap and use helping hands and a plastic leaf rake to pick them up its much quicker 

[Ratman]

Wouldn't touch either of them as a leaf vacuum, if you want that style get the echo equivalent, I've used bother the echo and the stihl sh86 side by side and the echo is twice the machine as a vacuum

Can you remember what model number it was?

[Coletti]

Can you remember what model number it was?

This one https://www.forestandarb.com/Echo-ES-250ES.html

[Stubby]

I still recon you would be better just blowing them up and raking into bags , compost , or bonfire or whatever .

Edited October 24, 2018 by Stubby