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I'm looking at adding a smaller walk behind leaf vac to my equipment. Started doing lawns/leaf pickup this fall and was using a universal leaf bag I bought on line with my walk behind. Didn't know much about the smaller leaf vacs so thought I'd ask here

Link below of one I may checkout
http://omaha.craigslist.org/for/4165440382.html

Or if I'm just better off with the mower just let me know

Dscheoeder83 said:

I'm looking at adding a smaller walk behind leaf vac to my equipment. Started doing lawns/leaf pickup this fall and was using a universal leaf bag I bought on line with my walk behind. Didn't know much about the smaller leaf vacs so thought I'd ask here

Link below of one I may checkout
Yard Vac

Or if I'm just better off with the mower just let me know

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It looks cool. I think the big difference is that this machine has an impeller that really shreds the leaves in bits. If I am correct, much smaller than what a mower can do, thus stuffing up the bag more = less stop time. Alltho, this is not a high quality unit like the Billy Goat, Gravely or Toro vacs, but it should do the job quite nicely if well maintained.

Mostly I'm wanting a faster/more efficient way to do leaf clean ups, its a side gig on weekends but figured if I can squeeze in a few more yards in a days time as I get busier it might be worth adding the piece of equip

Dscheoeder83 said:

Mostly I'm wanting a faster/more efficient way to do leaf clean ups, its a side gig on weekends but figured if I can squeeze in a few more yards in a days time as I get busier it might be worth adding the piece of equip

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You could get it! For the price, it aint much!

There is always the blower method. Just get a back pack blower and blow all the leaves in one corner. Put them in bags and you are done! It won't take long.

We have a Merry Mac leaf vac. It does pretty good. A new one is like about $1500 or so. We bought ours off of Craig's List for much less. It reduces leaves 8x.



Most of our leaf clean up though we have a mulch kit under one of our Zero turns that pulverizes them and leaves them in the yard.

Looks like a sweet machine!

Dscheoeder83 said:

Looks like a sweet machine!

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Thanks I was glad to get my hands on it.

I'm hoping the one I'm picking up this weekend (link above) will speed up my leaf cleanups