10/12/2023 0 Comments Squirrel mowing acorn drawingI suspect that it might suck up some acorns, but might also jam if there were a lot of 'em at once. The owner's manual for a Toro vac that has a similar metal impeller warns NOT to suck up acorns and other hard objects because they will damage the impeller. It did warn that hard objects may cause rips in the bag and be thrown out. I downloaded a randomly chosen trivac user manual, and this particular manual it did not specifically mention them. Others warn that it will damage the impeller. Some reviewers claim to use theirs to suck up acorns. I just want to suck them up and bag them, not mulch them.Īlso, this Worx Trivac thing is $100, not $42. Incidentally, assuming dry weather and dry ground, it has been my experience over the years that it's often less time and work to string out the drop cords for an electric chainsaw than it is to get fresh gas, mix the oil, and get a gas chainsaw running for short, small jobs.ĭrawpoker wrote:Anybody know anything about the Worx Trivac? It claims to have a metal impeller and in one review someone was boasting about how well it picked up acornsīut I wonder. On long runs, smaller gauge wire will drop too much voltage, making the vacuum (or chainsaw) less powerful - and too-low voltage can damage the motor. I can run my shop vac OK with up to about 200 feet of 12-gauge heavy-duty extension cords, and a lower-amp chainsaw even further away. at least 14 gauge and preferable 12 gauge if it's more than about 75-100 feet long. However, you need a long, large-gauge electrical cord to run it. Normal vacuums that have a bag, or smaller shop vacs with small capacity or smaller diameter hoses that can clog up are not feasible.Ī large shop vac also does better than lawn-vacs for pulling leaves out of bushes and low-laying ground cover. (They’re available in the range of $100-$150). I can also tell you from real-life experience that acorns thrown out by a lawnmower blade can lodge in places like the V in the pulley of the V-belt drive of a riding mower or self-propelled walking mower and cause it to jam very solidly and can even break the belt.Īnother option that might be worth a try if you really don't want to rake is a large, powerful 16 to 20 gallon wet-or-dry type shop vacuum cleaner that has a big canister chamber where the debris goes directly into the chamber but does not go through the impeller. So you need to wear eye protection and make sure there are no other people, children, or pets around, or anything that might be damaged by 100-200 mph acorns. At the very least it hurts like heck if you're hit by flying acorns even if it doesn't put out your eye, and even from richochet. I'd guess that a Snapper high-vac walking mower would do better than others ,similar to the way my riding mower works, but the bag would have to be emptied quite often.īe aware that even with a bagging mower, hard nuts like acorns and hickory nuts that are hit squarely by the tip of the blade and thrown out at 150-200 mph can damage the finish on your car or house, and could injure people. Normal lawn-tractor type mowers and walking mowers without high-lift blades don't do nearly as well as the "high-vac". But it makes a hekkuvva racket, dulls the blade quickly, and throws the other 25% of them all over the place (with great force) where you end up having to hand-rake them anyway. We have truckloads of leaves every fall, and I've used Snapper high-vac riding mowers for many years, which also will pick up about 75% of the acorns, hickory nuts and sweet-gum balls. In the lawn leaf vac the acorns will not go through between the blades, and not only will jam, but can break the plastic impeller blades. They pull the leaves through the impeller and mulch them before they go into the bag, not like a normal vacuum cleaner where the bag filters the debris so it never gets to the fan blades. I second what Rich said, that you cannot use those lawn leaf vacuums to pick up acorns. Inexpensive, very flexible thin-wire or metal tine rakes will let a lot of the acorns fall through. It can help to have a lawn rake with wide flat plastic tines that are relatively stiff to pick them up. Depending on how deep the grass is and many nuts there are, it may help to use a leaf blower to move the nuts into more convenient piles. The only way that really works well on bumper-crop years is hand-raking. I've had the same problem for decades, and have tried many different methods with acorns, hickory nuts, and sweet-gum balls.
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