Benefits and Types of Yard Vacuums

!±8± Benefits and Types of Yard Vacuums

Depending on the size of your lawn or yard, you may consider getting a yard vacuum to clean up leaves, sticks, or debris. Depending on your needs, you can also get a lawn vacuum that has the ability to shred or doubles as a chipper. As a kid growing up, I despised having to rake the leaves so these lawn and garden tools have always fascinated me. I use a hand held lawn vacuum (which is basically a leaf blower ran in reverse with a bag attached) and love it. Although the bag fills up quick which sort of stinks and most times I end up raking anyway. If I had the resources I would definitely think about purchasing one of the nicer yard vacuums.

Lawn vacuums come in three basic varieties. Hand-held or carried, push, or towed vacuums are the three basic kinds you'll come across when shopping for vacuums.

The hand-held style are just like what I have and are basically a leaf blower which doubles as a vacuum. Think of them as small shop vacs attached to a hand-held machine with a bag for collecting. These work pretty good because you can get them into hard to reach places like along fence lines and behind bushes. The downside to these is that the bags aren't very big and thus they fill up quickly. It can be frustrating to have to stop every few minutes to dump the bag. I like using mine but sometimes I rake them all into a pile first them suck them up with the vacuum. Obviously these are the least expensive of the yard vacuums but can be found for less than 0 at most lawn and garden shops or definitely online.

Push yard vacuums are pretty much just like a push lawn mower. They look basically the same by most standards but act like a big vacuum (which I guess they are really) that you push across your lawn. Some of these are nice because they even have chippers or shredders as part of them but due to the motor size they don't work well for shredding larger limbs. This range in price from around 0 up which makes them pretty expensive for the average home owner.

Benefits and Types of Yard Vacuums

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!±8±Troy-Bilt CSV 70 173cc OHV Gas Powered Self-Propelled Walk Behind Chipper/Shredder/Vacuum

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Gas Garden Shredders and Electric Garden Shredders

!±8± Gas Garden Shredders and Electric Garden Shredders

For the keen gardener, owning a shredder is a must. Rapidly reducing the volume of garden waste into manageable bags or compostable material is a tidy and efficient way of clearing up the garden.

Shredders can take care of clippings from hedges and bushes, branches from trees and even kitchen waste such as potato peelings. There is no fun in trying to use pruning shears to chop up large hedge clippings. The question is which is better; electric or gas?

On price, electric tends to be cheaper with bottom of the range starting at 0, but these are basic quality machines and only suitable for the lightest of materials. A good gas shredder can cost over 0 with some topping out at a whopping ,000. A key point for the buyer of a shredder is the weight of the machine. For those gardeners with bad backs or who are not so nimble on the feet anymore, the weight of a shredder is important, as an electric five horse power shredder can weigh some 135 pounds in weight!

Power-to-power ratios are difficult to compare, but the short answer is that electrical shredders will weigh far more than the equivalent gas powered shredder. However, if you have a significant pile of branches of up to three or four inches in diameter, then the gas powered shredder is essential. The electrical variety tends to be cheaper, but that's because they are typically not as powerful. If you only require leaves and twigs shredding, then an electrical shredder is probably fine.

Given the air pollution from any type of garden gas powered machine, the green gardener has the option to convert to run on plant oils. On top of this, to reduce the cost of a gas powered shredder, reliable second hand machines are available from reputable dealers. You can also get second hand machines online on online auction sites. If you go down this route then double check that you buy from a reputable seller.

For the most serious shredding, it is advisable to go for an engine size of at least four horse power, otherwise blockages will be regular and some larger branches will not go through to be processed by the machine. You might find electrical shredders are noisier than the gas powered equivalent, although it depends on the type and size of the material being fed through because harder materials will make more noise.

Gas Garden Shredders and Electric Garden Shredders

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