Handy THPLS Hand Push Lawn Sweeper

Stephen 18/10/2017 17:19:17

I have a large garden backing on to a mini forest of deciduous trees. We moved here last January so this is my first autumn. My first rake session took well over an hour and even although I'm pretty fit at knocking on 73 years I did not feel raking was a long term solution as it needed doing every 2-3 days. I ordered an agri-fab sweeper at 170 pounds but they were out of stock for a while and offered me a Handy for 150 pounds. I looked on line and prices varied enormously. Tooled up were the cheapest at 99.95 pounds. My local Robbie's charge 130 pounds. It works best on the lawn when there is a layer of leaves covering the grass fairly evenly. It picks up about 90% plus and is very quick taking about 20 minutes to sweep 35x20yards. I have various shrubs and bushes in the borders and blew these on to the lawn with a vac intending then going over the long piles of leaves with the sweeper. This was not that easy and I felt it was straining the machine. I've decided to sweep the lawn using the sweeper and use a plastic lawn rake to remove accumulations of leaves elsewhere. Verdict :- a good buy works well on evenly covered grass but not on long piles.