Electric garden leaf blower,vac,mulcher

Sad to say. My neighbours, show very little if any desire to keep the communial pathway clean. I have taken it upon myself for just over fifty years now to take care of it. A couple of months back, the boyfriend who is skacked up with one neighbour did have a go and that proved to be a one off. So I was wondering about an electric blow,vac, mulcher. They seem cheap. Has any members used one, if so, how did you find it?

 

I have the Flymo 2700 , £65 Argos . As Loofah said the leaves must be on the dry side for these things to be effective . It does a very good job blowing and an OK job at vacuuming. The downside is they are a bit heavy. and as I am quite tall I need to half crouch to use it.
Argos have an own brand Challenge make which is lighter at £40 , reviews seem ok on it .

 

We use a petrol blower due to distances involved making electric impractical. It's a Stihl and we don't use the accompanying collection bag as we have huge volumns of leaves to deal with making a bag redundant as it would need emptying every 2 minutes.
The blower is incredibly powerful, coping with soaking wet leaves without a bother. Light to use and for us a great bit of kit. We use it regularly not only for leaves but for general "forrest litter" type stuff which we get a fair amount of during the year.
I wouldn't be without 1 having realised how useful it is for us but might be a bit of overkill in smaller gardens. That said I think I would still have 1 in you average sized garden as it's so light to use and easy to start. It's great for getting leaves off flowerbeds and out from round the edges of the grass. Blow the leaves onto the grass and them hoover up with the mower. job done.

 

I am thinking of starting a campaign on how people are lazy and it is someone else's problem. Like yourself I seem to be the only neighbour to sweep leaves / clear snow from footpath at front of house.

I use a large broom and a wonderful set of grabbers (no bending down). I hate leaf blowers mainly because I see some gardeners pushing a few leaves about for an hour of absolute racket when they could have done the job in half the time with a rake and broom.

That said I have borrowed a stihl blower and at the end of the sweeping season it is good for clearing out the final gullies under plants where the last few are trapped.

I cannot advise on a vacuum, but I could well believe that a shoulder strap is a must.

 

Some people need an App for that!! some people just will not do anything as someone else will do it

I also use brush and rake as i'm fit enough to do it, but if i was then i use a blower