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not petrol, but been using a Greenworks 40V battery sucker for a few years, mainly for box clippings where they fall onto gravel etc. Saves messing around putting a sheet down. Useless as a blower compared to my Ego one, so only use it in sucker mode. Battery run time is short but it's been a god send, not a single tiny leaf remains afterwards from a quick run round with it. If trimming box adjacent to a hard surface would use a battery lawnmower on lowest height setting to hoover up the bits instead
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I used to use a stihl bg86 until the zip broke on the bag. It's more efficient to lay down sheeting or blow through/away.
When it's dry it picks up dirt and blows dust out the bag.
When it's wet the small tube regularly becomes blocked. Around the fan area cloggeds up with dirt. If stems are long they rap around behind the fan. The bag gets heavy and soaks you.
If you over rev you can pick up a stone. I smashed a fin on the fan once and had to wait 2months for a replacement, there after I carried a spare fan.
If the groud is moist and there's no stones or on paving I would say those are the ideal conditions.
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Mine is very similar to the more recently launched Stihl SHA56 (I believe they are in cahoots with Greenworks on designing the cordless these days). The technique is to hover the sucking tube barely above ground level, it will remove the small leafed debris on full power without even disturbing pea gravel, yes there can be fine dust blown through the bag. My zip broke recently like Honey Badgers but it was at the far end so put a clamp on it to stop it coming apart. Useless for long thin stuff like ornamental grass and it will choke on too many big leaves like sycamore etc. Also found it good for a quick clean up of mess around clients' porches where a blower just makes stuff swirl around and land again. Instead of searching for the button to turn it off afterwards I just grab the battery and pull it out
I just use decorating dust sheets... so easy. Just roll it up wih the cuttings in and then just unroll into a plastic bin. Tried a bg86 with a bag to pick things up........ not particularly good.
Thanks Graham, unfortunately the box is in a very narrow trench which the plants fill so no room to get a sheet in there is gravel one side and lawn on the other. What we have been doing previously is gently blowing the cuttings from the gravel side onto the lawn but as the gravel migrates into the trench inevitably gravel is blown onto the lawn . We use a mower to pick the cuttings up but the odd bits of gravel don't do the mower much good ! Think I'm going to take the view that replacing the blades at £40 is going to be more economic than £330 on a Stihl SH 86 which the gravel will probably destroy the fan. The reason for the original post was that the mower system still leaves clippings behind.
number of people that put gravel next to a lawn.............. infuriating!! Causes so many problems.