Garden vac / blower any recomendations?

[RodMod]

I am after buying a garden vac for heavy duty use, the large ones on wheels seem too clumpy to transport about in my van. Must be a petrol one as I do lots of work outside and not always with eletricity.

Costco have a Ryobi for about £100 .

Thank you in advance.

Appologies for bad spelling .

Rod.

[shimmey69]

Garden vacs are crap
get a stihl back pack leaf blower and a rake and a large bucket, if you have a large nursery near you that does large specimen plants they usually give away large twin handled 90-110 litre tubs make ideal buckets.

[MrCheese]

I got a draper electric garden vac and it was great for about 5 times then it burnt out. If you have a small garden and are only ever going to vac light stuff it will probably do the job.

I then got the Stihl garden vac/blower. It is absolutely superb - as a blower it is powerful and the vac actually works. I have a very large garden with lots of trees dropping stuff into areas that are hard to use with a blower. The only thing I would say is that vacuuming up garden stuff with small twigs, cones etc that get in with leaves is very hard on the machine. Even with the Stihl I can hear that it sometimes strains and I am going to have to maintain it.

You won't regret buying the Still if this is something you will use fairly often.

[netherfield]

Forget the Ryobi,I had one and could block it up within minutes.

Then bought a Stihl,first class piece of kit,although none will handle wet leaves without clogging up.

If you go the Stihl route buy a spare fan,this is the piece that wears away,as it does it reduces the sucking effort.

[.:ian:.]

When I was looking at vac/blowers, Stihls were the only ones to have metal mulching blades. Wouldnt bother with anything else!

[RodMod]

Thank you for the replies chaps. Think I am going along with the idea of using a blower, rake and bucket ( My uncle has a stihl backpack blower for sale - family rates ). Well until I can afford the Stihl blower/vac.

Thank you.

Rod.