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tool for getting rid of acorns?

Last post 06-10-2009 2:12 AM by chriscdavidt. 8 replies.

• 05/10/2009 02:11 PM
  Lynsey Location: Hampshire Joined on: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 24	Reply | Contact Hello everyone, I've just moved in to a new house with a big oak tree at the front and I'm a having a very hard job at the moment collecting all the falling acorns and I wondered if anyone knew of any amazing acorn collecting tool for the garden. I was hoping for a sort of outdoor hoover. Does such a thing exist? Many thanks

• 05/10/2009 02:20 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,976	Reply | Contact I was hoping for a sort of outdoor hoover. Does such a thing exist? Yes, it's called a pig! Other than that, maybe one of those leaf vacuum things would work.

• 05/10/2009 02:28 PM	In reply to
  Lynsey Location: Hampshire Joined on: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 24	Reply | Contact Good idea! I wonder where I can hire a pig from !

• 05/10/2009 02:39 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,976	Reply | Contact The New Forest has pigs about at this time of year. They let them in to forage up all the acorns and beech mast and it's called 'pannage'. Maybe someone can lend you one for a day? That would be a laugh, wouldn't it.

• 05/10/2009 03:13 PM	In reply to
  Lynsey Location: Hampshire Joined on: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 24	Reply | Contact Thanks for the info Miranda, I might have to look in to that one. Only problem is, I would probably become too attached and wouldn't want to give it back at the end of the day! [:'(]

• 05/10/2009 04:43 PM	In reply to
  Arrem Location: West Midlands. UK Joined on: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 90	Reply | Contact Miranda wrote, "maybe one of those leaf vacuum things would work."   I have a Black & Decker leaf vacuum/blower and it picks up quite large pebbles, so I'd say that a acorns would not be a problem for it.  There is no such thing as useless - you can always be a bad example.

• 05/10/2009 09:19 PM

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  geoff51 Location: Totton, Hampshire Joined on: 13 Feb 2009 Posts: 67

  Reply | Contact Hi At least you have only got 1 I have 3 at the edge of my 60 x 65 foot plot! I have found my leaf vac wont pick up acorns although maybe a very expensive one might and i have yo resort to a wire rake which is hard work to say the least. The only good thing is that this is the first year in the last 3 that we have had acorns so they don't seem to produce them every year, but knowing my luck it will be every year for the next 3 years. If you can invent an acorn picker upper put me down to buy the first one Geoff51 Pond life!?!

• 05/10/2009 09:23 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  A rake or besom broom might help a bit? Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 06/10/2009 02:12 AM	In reply to
  chriscdavidt Location: East Garafraxa, County Dufferin, Ontario, Canada Joined on: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 2	Reply | Contact How about rent a kid!  Our neighbour's boy who is about 6 loves to run around and make big piles of cones that have fallen from a our Black spruce trees.  Of course we start a race to see who can pile up the most the fastest!  Lots of fun but we are not sure what will we do when he gets older...perhps they vacuum attachment to our shop vac.