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Malcolm

Bill wrote:
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Me too - I bought one (admittedly a cheap one) and it was cumbersome,
inefficient and basically *useless*. I went back to using a rake.
Useful bit of exercise!
Son with new house bought one of these and as far as I know has only
used it once and declared it useless as a sucking device. Said many of
the leaves were stuck to the path and didn't budge.

But, behind the Webb mower that he found in the shed, and I keep asking
about, was a thing labelled "Billy Goat Industries " with a 6HP Briggs
and Stratton engine. It looks a bit like something Stephenson might have
invented to suck the wrong sort of leaves off the track. When we get
round to trying to start it no doubt I'll be back with more questions

Excellent device. I work part time in a school with 6 large trees and
spend a lot of my time in the autumn pushing one of these around. We
had a B&S engined model but now have a Honda engined model which is much
more powerful and easier to manage. Designed in USA to suck leaves off
lawns but we use it on hard surfaces. Engine power (and therefore
suction) is controlable, we also use it for litter collection - it will
easily digest a 0.5 litre drinks bottle. Our last one did eventually
develop a split fan casing as it will also suck up stones or anthing
with a rough surface - horse chestnuts no, but the casings yes. Not a
problem as the kids pick up the conkers

Malcolm