Put down your shovel and check this out! Clean your landscape rocks with this simple debris separator from a blower, a trash can, and a few small parts. This is SO MUCH easier than any other way I’ve seen. Give it a try, you’ll be blown away by the results! (or rather sucked away by the results?)
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38 Comments
OMG I have 4 pine trees on my property and they are beautiful, but the pine needles in the rocks are the bane of my existence, lol I wish I had that system you used. Trying to find a machine that will suck up only the needles and not the rocks.
What would save you alot of time and hassle in the future is to get rid of the high maintenance tree and plant another or decorate the area.
Really awesome video. Very nice shop vac you builf there. Was thinking though. Um couldnt you just use a store bought shop vac? If a regular shop vac is to powerful maybe you could make a different attatchment for the end of the hose that is like a funnel to just give it a bigger opening and weaken the pull of the vacuum? Really did dig the shop vac you built though.
Take that Bill Nye
How many rocks did you pick up?
Or you could use a leaf blower
I like the fact that I know exactly what parts and where to get them. That is real helpfull.
It does not suck up the rocks? Can you do the same thing with a shop vac?
If you have any type of pine tree on your property, the best thing to do is admit defeat and embrace the pine needles. Make a Pine needle "bed" under your pine tree and you will never have to worry about it again. And in the fall when pine needles are actively dropping from your tree, simply rake, or blow the pine needle that dont drop straight down back into the bed. There are many type of plants that do well living under pine trees. Certain types of Hostas and Ivy's do well. But cleaning out a rock bed of pine needles is an endless, time consuming battle.
You should invest in a leaf blower 🙂
I think your family and our family bought the same house…..OMG….they didn't do anything!!
Would that suck up the rocks, I don't want to shovel?
Pine straw makes a great garden bed and leaves the nutrients for the tree as nature intended. I would ditch the rocks and keep the pine needles in a tidy circle under the tree.
Having said that I'm totally jealous of your tools and skills.
My yard is filled with crushed coquina rock. Would a separator like this just such up all my rock too? It’s pretty light.
Could I get you to build me one. 😆 I just don't have the technology to build one myself. Most don't. I could certainly use this.
I have a long curvy river rock bed in my front yard. The bed has accumulated leaves and other unsightly landscape debris over the last few years, so I just pulled out the powerful ShopVac! It worked great, but still required lots of bending down and moving stones in order to get to the debris trapped under the stones. But looks good now!
I want to buy one from you. Any chance we can make that happen?
Trees around our homes are notoriously dirty and labor intensive. I no longer want trees near my house, roof etc. They create too many problems with debris. Your tool works well. The rocks will continually be getting full of needles. You may want simply dirt and just rake it occasionally.
Just sell me one
I watched your video twice. I probably still don't know how to do it.
Would love to have one of these but I'm not building one, lol. Name a price!
3 Question
1. Would a craftsmen shop vac with cmf 137 work as well or do you need the extra vacuum suction of the 13 gallon 1 HP High Flow
Dust Collector 660 cmf air Flow in order for it to work?
2. Do you think it would work well on rocks that have 40 Years of dirt on and impact on them, to collect the dirt?
3. While cleaning did you collect a lot of rocks that were sucked up into the unit?
Has anyone found a way to suck up leaves (after trimming bushes) from pine bark? Unfortunately, I believe this devise will still have too much suction for the pine bark. Thank you.
For where a filter benefits, would a secondary container further benefit with a filter after it? That, in theory, should collect almost everything ejected from the first and the filter would need much less frequent cleaning.
Fabulous results. You are very smart.
lol, just get a blower dude. takes 10 seconds to clean the yard, blow it into a pile and clean it up. and by blower i mean a landscaping backpack blower or handheld one. they're cheaper than all the junk you strapped together
also that's not called a separator, it's just a home made shop vac
Was the suction enough to suck up the rocks, but only an inch or so, and thus didn't get sucked all the way into the cyclone seperator?
Wow, seems like it would be easier to hire a kid to clean it then make a whole new machine! Actually how many people could actually do that. You might as well sell these
Just use a shop vac. lol
This is just what I needed! Aside from pine needles, we get a ton of mulch blowing or swimming into our river rocks from the rain. I tried using a leaf blower but the doesn’t work. Your idea seems like it should. Thanks so much!
Did you have to install a grill/grate at the tip of the angle elbow to keep the rocks from being sucked in?
Without going to the time, cost, and trouble of fabricating a large shop-vac, I used my 10 Gallon Rigid Shop Vac. It was effective to a point, but in addition to sucking up the organic debris, it also was sucking up too much of the rock. So instead I began spreading my landscape rock onto my driveway and used my leaf blower to separate the debris from the rock. Since I was relocating the landscape rock, this method worked better anyway. Shovel, spread, blow, regather and relocate.
You were a better man than me I would’ve just went to Lowe’s spent 75 bucks on 10 bags of rock threw some weed killer on top of it. Poured the rock on top been down in an hour.
Bro rake that stuff first. Before you start sucking
Pine Needles are acidic, great for growing berries.
I'm so excited to see this video! How do you keep the gravel from being sucked up?
Would this work to remove mulch that was laid down on top of rock?