Puckdropper writes:
(Scott Lurndal) wrote in
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I don't agree - brooms were sufficient for centuries before shop-vacs
became were even invented....

Tools were also hand-powered for that time too. A hand powered saw doesn't
usually send sawdust flying across the room, so it was easier for the
broom.

Come now - power tools have been around for more than a century and
for most of that time, there weren't portable shop vacuums, portable dust
collectors or fancy air cleaners in home or farm shops.

Just an idiot stick (c.f. Robert Heinlein's _Glory Road_).