11/28/2013

Lawn Vacuums

Lawn Vacuums

Executive Summary by Jim Kesel

Lawn Vacuums are specialized yard maintenance equipment. They are designed specifically to remove
leaves and litter from yards and lawns. Many riding lawn mowers can be converted to work as lawn vacuums. Lawn vacuums in conjunction with a lawn mower will facilitate this effort by chopping the mulch material as it is picked up thereby accelerating the mulch processes.

Lawn vacuums basically come in different forms. The most common lawn vacuums are built as a trailer that is pulled behind a lawn tractor. As the lawn tractor cuts the lawn or leaves up they are blown back to the vacuums blower then into the lawn vacuums trailer.

Lawn vacuums models also include walk behind models that have a suction chute located at the front of it. Most lawn vacuums are designed to automatically deposit yard debris into paper or plastic bags for easy curbside pickup. Many newly designed walk behind lawn vacuums neatly fold up for storage after use.

Types of Lawn Vacuums

Executive Summary By Rob Akerost

If you have a large lawn, or even a small yard and hate raking leaves, sticks and other debris, then maybe you should think about a yard vacuum. There's basically three different types of lawn or yard vacuums; carry, push, or tow. The price range increases respectively with the carry models being the cheapest.

The carry types of vacuums are basically leaf blowers that, besides blowing, can vacuum or suck up leaves into some type of attachment such as a canvas bag. Most push type vacuums look basically just like a big push lawn mower with a scoop or hood that acts as a vacuum nozzle. What's really nice about stepping up to one of these models is the bags are larger, thus hold more leaves. Plus, you get the added features that comes with larger gas motors such as (possible) chipper shredder and expansion hose or attachments that allows you to get to hard to reach places. The push vacuums get a little more expensive and run on average over $500.

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7/28/2010

Tow Behind Lawn Sweeper

Tow Behind Lawn Sweeper
Agri-Fab 38-Inch Tow Lawn Sweeper
Executive Summary By Jay Giles

This Agri-Fab 38 inch is a tow-behind lawn or yard sweeper. Meaning, it can be towed or pulled behind an ATV or lawn tractor for the serious lawn caretaker. Out of 15 reviews, 3 gave this lawn sweeper 5 out of 5 stars.

Although the size is nice and covers a lot of ground, this sweeper does require a large turning radius so it is best used on larger lawns. The Agri-Fab 38 inch is a tow-behind lawn sweeper claims to have infinite adjustments for height.

Although that's a big claim, having a large variety for adjusting height is great when sweeper different lengths of grass or fairly uneven lawns. The tires are 10 x 1 3/4 inch semi-pneumatic.

Most users had no problem picking up large pine needles (rare when it comes to lawn sweepers), smaller pine cones, dry grass, and leaves. As with most lawn sweepers, picking up anything wet is difficult for this lawn tool.

Choosing the Best (Right) Lawn Sweeper For the Job

There are two main varieties of lawn sweepers, tow-behind and push (human powered). The push or pull lawn sweepers are human powered. Many expect the lawn sweeper to pick up large pine cones or pine needles.

Make sure the lawn sweeper you choose has adequate height adjustments for your particular yard. Moreover, the more uneven your lawn, the less effective the sweeper will be. Conversely, larger hoppers hold more.

Not only do the larger sweepers have more hopper capacity, but a wider sweep width as well. The less expensive push sweepers generally have widths of 25 to 26 inches while the larger, tow-behind sweepers can have widths over 38 inches.