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.