jekjr
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Do any of you run one of these in your business?
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A vacuum wood chipper ?
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We have a facility that we take care of that we use it to keep an alley clean. There are many, many trees down one side. Blowing e leaves out with a blower works good but normally the leaves will be back in a very short time. Picking them up with the Merry Mac that grinds them up and dumping them keeps it much cleaner much longer than just blowing them out
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What about speed? How's it do? How long does it take to empty a bag? How long to fill with a moderate amount of debris? Good wet?
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We have 4. Two are Clarke with Tecumsehs. One is a Parker with a kholer. And a billy goat with a Honda. We use them mainly for parking lot curbs and cigarette butts in our 10,000 person outdoor amphitheater.
I like the clarkes. The Parker was not used at all this year and is in kinda ruff shape. Thing I don't like is it has soft inflatable tires = flats.
The billy goat was new last year and I know operators liked it.
Bag fill time depends on situation. Sucking up butts can take long time to fill bag Then leaves from curbs in fall can fill a bag in 20 min.
emptying takes a couple mins. Does do good with wet leaves but not as good with soaked matted down leaves.
The one thing all operators agree on. Regardless of brand they all create a very dusty dirty smelly cloud. Very dirty machines= air filters often.
I like the clarkes. The Parker was not used at all this year and is in kinda ruff shape. Thing I don't like is it has soft inflatable tires = flats.
The billy goat was new last year and I know operators liked it.
Bag fill time depends on situation. Sucking up butts can take long time to fill bag Then leaves from curbs in fall can fill a bag in 20 min.
emptying takes a couple mins. Does do good with wet leaves but not as good with soaked matted down leaves.
The one thing all operators agree on. Regardless of brand they all create a very dusty dirty smelly cloud. Very dirty machines= air filters often.
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It has a three speed transmission with reverse. I estimate at in high gear it will travel about 3mph. Emptying the bag is relatively fast. The back end of the bag has zippers and will open completely to dump stuff out the rear. It has a draw type band over the neck where it fills. Thus taking it off completely is only a short time if you want to dump it say on the pickup. It also reduces leaves 8X. In other words 8 black bags will reduce down to one.......
I have actually used it on wet leaves so that water is oz zing out of the bag though I would only do that in extreme situations.
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I have 2 billy goats, mine have the brigs on them, we primarily use them with leaf removal. I like them in small yards or around curbs. I think they're worth having in your tool kit. they're just a little heavier then a push mower and can easily be put in the bed of your truck if you're short on space for your trailer