Garden vacuum/blower

I used to have one but found it quite heavy to use as the bag to collect the leaves went over one shoulder and with that and the actual pipe to suck them up I could only use it for a few minutes at a time , might be ok if you were just going to 'blow' the leaves I guess.. I gave it away in the end..

Same here as Tanith says.My DH gave away our old one and bought the lightest one he could find.......he still finds it too heavy.So, he uses it to blow all the leaves into a pile on the drive, then sweeps them up. For the leaves all over the lawns, he user the mower to collect them up.

We have an Oak tree at one end of the garden, an Ash at the other and 6 silver birches in between. After trying a variety of methods to collect them, the most successful seems to be a high set mower.

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Yes, my DH uses the mower, J52. We often see people using those blowers but mostly they just seem to blow them out of their own garden and into the one next door!

I agree, awkward and on heavy side !

Thank you everyone, you just saved me some money. I did wonder about the weight of them. I have given away a lot of things my husband used when he was alive as they were to heavy. Don't manufacturers ever think that women garden too? Picking leaves off the rockery bit in the garden nearly does for me!
Margaret.

I had the same problem. If you can get the leaves into a pile I recommend the Yeoman Long Handled Angled Garden Grabbe.I got it from Amazon and I can pick up the leaves without trouble.

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Just so you know, I am not an advertiser. We have an oak, two ashes and a willow, which drop leaves into our garden, not all our trees. My OH is disabled but can used his ride on lawn mower to pick up the leaves, we still have to empty them into the garden refuse bins though. The mower basket does get very heavy. I bought the above blower three years ago and it just helps me keep on top of the job. It is very powerful and the battery only lasts for twenty mins. However, it does a really good job of getting the leaves out of borders, around the house and the front limestone chipping drive, also acorns get moved quickly with this. (I also have another electric blower, this was on offer at B&Q last week. it gets a bit heavy and mulches the leaves. I use the latter when I want to do the big clean up, about once a week.) The Bosch cordless one, just helps me keep on top of it all. It is a leaf blower and I blow the leaves into piles before putting into the bins. This works well for us.

It is rather expensive, but I think its worth it as its very powerful. You can get them sometimes on offer and cheaper if you shop on line. Good luck.

My front garden is full of leaves from other people's trees so I have just received a leaf blower that I ordered yesterday- £79 reduced to £29. It will take me 4 hours to charge it and then I can create order out of the chaos. I have not unwrapped it yet but it is so light- just what I wanted.

I do not want to advertise here but if anybody wants more details, please get in touch by PM.

I use a leaf blower/collector, it is quicker than a rake but I still get a back ache.

Let us know how you get on with the cheap blower, Charleygirl, things are not usually reduced that much for no reason.

Sorry girls while I appreciate keeping the garden tidy is a problem This is one item I would put in room 101. They are extremely noisy. Yesterday it was a windy day but a council worker with ear defenders was blowing the leaves. There was no sign of a bag or a bin, the wind was catching them and they were blowing into the traffick along with the rubbish. Last month I attend an important meeting (for us) we could not hear ourselves think let alone each other because the gardener was blowing the leaves outside the building. This lasted more than two hours.

I'm wary of blowers since a gardener set to with one to blow the leaves off the gravel in front of my house. One little stone flew up and broke a small diamond lattice window pane in my bedroom window. 150 years old and still awaiting replacement. He didn't hear it happen with his ear defenders on.

I have one we have not used for years, basically it's too big for me to hold comfortably.

In our close of houses the front gardens are all open plan. Our house and garage are in line but several other garages are at right angles to teh house and their garages present a leaf trap.
Any leaves in our front garden just blow straight across to next doors leaf trap or off down the road apart from a few that get into our porch.

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