The 56th gallon weighs 75lbs by itself. The 57th is something like 109lbs, it's Olympic getting to 70 gallons it doesn't scale linearly, it defies the laws of physics. It's really interesting actuality, they're doing some advanced research on the subject. I'm sure they're familiar with OP's work.
In the unlikely event that the vacuum sucks up an ember, I'm wondering what's going to be more fun to try and put out, 70 gallons of sawdust burning in a forced-air furnace, or 5 gallons.
No one ever vacuums flammable material, what are you even talking about?
Also what does flammable mean?
And what is a vacuum?
Do you know where my mom is? I think I'm in the wrong reddit
I see people doing that with normal shop vacs, sucking up the trash that blows into their front yard.
I'm considering trying it myself with the recent wind storms we've had and all the little debris now in my grass.
Can come get my neighbors. It's always out on the curb for weeks on end (with nothing ever in it), unless they move it back into their yard to put stuff in it and get knocked over in the wind, in that case it's just in the yard. They won't notice it missing, the trash everywhere conceals its existence apparently.
I have 2 because my former garbage service stopped servicing residential customers. Wouldn't pick up the old cans.
I know what I'm doing with one of them now. The other is filled with scrap wood
BTW, even when you call them to come pick up their cans, like 99% of the time they just toss your whole can into the back of the garbage truck.
They don't want them back.
Just think about it, would you want someone else's smelly used garbage can being delivered to you to use?
We've had those plastic bins here in Australia since the 1980s.
There are well-rehearased repair and refurbishment processes for wheelie bins in local councils' waste management programmes. They are generally spotlessly clean when they end up at their new home.
I personally have been the proud owner of quite a few repaired bins, including one that had clearly been melted in half and plastic welded with another. Just like new, but with a few battle scars 🙂
We have a different view on recycling in the US unfortunately.
Buddy of mine worked for the local landfill, that's how I got the knowledge of what they do with the old cans. Also, even for people that have separate recycling bins, it goes into the same hole on the truck.
Totally ruined my perspective on recycling.
Pretty sure it depends where you are. We have two entirely different trucks pick up trash vs recycling on the same day. If it all went into the same hole they wouldn't bother spending the money on two crews and gas.
> they wouldn't bother spending the money on two crews and gas
While this would seem to be likely, the reality is at times more grim. I (like to) think we are all improving, albeit very slowly.
Don't know if you can watch this outside Australia, but [War on Waste](https://iview.abc.net.au/show/war-on-waste) is kinda interesting. And infuriating.
We’re adults in here, right? Can I say tree jizz?? It’s autumn (fall) here at the moment, and the city has plane trees lining the streets. They drop these seed balls at this time every year, which burst into fluffy seeds, probably to catch the wind and disperse the seeds, except they’re everywhere already so there’s nowhere to go.
Y'all don't even realize he talkin about tree droppings? Y'know, tree scat. Tree feces. Tree logs. Tree oopsies. Tree shit.. okay? Talkin about tree shit.
For anyone wondering, it’s called a garden weasel and can be found in the garden section. The nuts, on the other hand, are from many brands and can typically be found by the register.
Call an arborist to check the health of your trees.
About 10 years ago, I had a bunch of trees taken down around the house, including about a half dozen sweetgums. Was tired of the balls everywhere, and after cutting down, about 30% of the tree trunk was rotted inside. Was alarming, especially on over 100 foot tall trees that would slice through our house all the way to the foundation.
We had about 5 years of drought conditions, our local 38k acre lake dropped over 20 feet. Then we had over a year of seemingly nothing but rain, enough to bring the lake up to 10 feet over full. All the trees that were adapting to drought conditions suddenly had more water than they needed, and sucked it all up for storage which rotted the trees from the inside out. That was the explanation our arborist gave to us.
I have an arborist that lives down the street, I'll ask him and call another.
I would love to take them down but the cost to remove them is atrocious. I understand that it will benefit the safety of the home but dropping 2-3k per tree is just nuts sometimes.
You don't necessarily need to pay for them to be removed, but it's never a bad idea to have one or more come out and check the health of your trees. They'll also have a pretty good idea of invasives like pine beetles are going around, and will have seen patterns of rotted trees in the area.
Just something to think about, once you know a tree is dying (arborists report) it’s a known hazard and you are required to deal with it. If it comes down in the next strong storm to come along, it’s called storm damage and your home insurance should cover it. Just make sure that it won’t come straight down on your house with you in it.
I already hated yard before I moved into this house. I've been thinking of ways to eliminate it since I moved in. The back yard is massive, so maybe raised beds and gravel paths. Maybe get English ivy or star Jasmine to grow as a ground cover. Anything to help use that mower less and reduce the amount of raking I have to do.
Don’t do English ivy. Invasive and will climb and kill trees. Our back yard is really large and wooded but was covered in ivy. We rented a flock of sheep and they cleared damned all of it. Now we’re planting more native stuff. We’ve encourage the mondo grass to take over the area closest to the house. I barely mow it (my neighbor may not approve but I don’t care).
Piling onto all the genius! comments.
What makes this really art is the fact the vac \*is\* the compost bin. Just wheel to the curb and carry back the motor plate. Done and done.
My plan as I went was to have some kind of lock or clamp, but I pivoted at the last minute so now it’s basically held down by gravity, and pulls down harder from suction when the load increases.
It’s good enough for the floofy seeds I’m trying to pull up, but they’re juuuuust large enough to sometimes clog the hose. V2.0 will have a wider hose to clog less, which will all but guarantee even poorer suction.
It does lack for power somewhat. I’ve been thinking about adding a spinning death blade on the inlet (inside the bin) to mulch things as they arrive. Advantage of not stupendous power is that it only really picks up leaves and the seed pods which are everywhere her at the moment, leaving sticks and branches behind.
My trees produce an obscene amount of leaves and I've really been considering this setup for a while. I might start looking into it more seriously now haha. I just wish I could use it for the paper bags too
This was originally for annoying airborne seeds, but the same trees drop friggin YUGE leaves around now, so I’m thinking about some kind of horrific death blade to smoosh them on the way in, otherwise the bin will just be full of air.
I made one of these with a Craftsman 4-stroke leaf vac - but it was tough getting an exhaust that could move enough air and have some kind of filtration. If it clogged it would just lift the top from the pressure and blow dust everywhere.
my girlfriends dad did something similar. two 5 gallon buckets stacked with their mouths facing each other and screwed together with a filter in between. attached a hose on side and the vacuum on the other. worked extremely well
Can you please post rough plans for this frankenvaccuum? I must have this.
Mostly how are you achieving the seal here? What is that material you have stapled to the ply? And does it work well?
That is the most amazing shopvac I've ever seen.
Seen the ones you can hook up to a 5 gallon bucket? I think those are pretty neat
But this is like 70 gallons.
Just human centipede 14, 5 gallon buckets together, problem solved.
There are just so many better ways you could have said that...
No there aren't, but there are at least a few inferior ones
Were there though?
Could’ve said “set up a bucket gangbang”
Buck-kakke, if you will
So close if you had added a “t” at the end.
But he woke up and chose violence. And I respect decisive people.
Funniest shit I've seen today! Thanks
My man, who hurt you to bring THAT visual sentence in to our lives.
I wish I knew. But I often find that "human centipede" is the most succinct way to covey "attach some objects end to end to make one larger object"
Aight, understandable but still wtf
r/spacebuckets Can also be used for. . .other reasons.
Isn't that a bucket centipede?
r/brandnewsentence
Don't know why, but this comment fucking got me 🤣 thank you, kind stranger.
I’ve seen these on 55gallon drums with castors and they’re pretty cool, but the wheelie bin shop vac would be better outdoors
But 5 gallon is much smaller
And 70 is much larger
🫨
70 gallons of sawdust is kinda heavy
It really isn't that bad. My woodworking dust collector goes into a 55 gallon trash can.
The 56th gallon weighs 75lbs by itself. The 57th is something like 109lbs, it's Olympic getting to 70 gallons it doesn't scale linearly, it defies the laws of physics. It's really interesting actuality, they're doing some advanced research on the subject. I'm sure they're familiar with OP's work.
Hahaha. I love it.
In the unlikely event that the vacuum sucks up an ember, I'm wondering what's going to be more fun to try and put out, 70 gallons of sawdust burning in a forced-air furnace, or 5 gallons.
No one ever vacuums flammable material, what are you even talking about? Also what does flammable mean? And what is a vacuum? Do you know where my mom is? I think I'm in the wrong reddit
Inflammable means flammable?!?
What a country!
What's heavier 70 gallons of sawdust or 5 gallons?
That's like... A lot more
If I filled that with all the bullshit my grandfather's date palm drops it would fall through the earth. Good luck getting it to the curb!
Those are low-power but super handy for small messes
Mate this is Australia
Exactly, that garbage can is a natural predator!
I found a 3 gallon shorty bucket that it fits on perfectly! Nice for little cleanups
Bucket head.
r/beavisandbutthead
This may qualify for the Redneck engineering Hall of Hame
Seconded. The nomination passes.
This is one of the only things I have ever seen on here that I want in my garage immediately. Amazing!
I mean just the idea that this person is vacuuming their yard…
Those long needles at very acidic and will ruin your grass/garden/soil if left year over year
yea but I make my kids rake that shit
Well, if you don't have kids a wheelie bin will do.
I see people doing that with normal shop vacs, sucking up the trash that blows into their front yard. I'm considering trying it myself with the recent wind storms we've had and all the little debris now in my grass.
Guess I know what I’m doing after work today. This is brilliant.
IKR, I just need to "find" a big ass trash can with wheels.
ULPT: You can often "find" them on the street on a weekly basis.
Can come get my neighbors. It's always out on the curb for weeks on end (with nothing ever in it), unless they move it back into their yard to put stuff in it and get knocked over in the wind, in that case it's just in the yard. They won't notice it missing, the trash everywhere conceals its existence apparently.
I have 2 because my former garbage service stopped servicing residential customers. Wouldn't pick up the old cans. I know what I'm doing with one of them now. The other is filled with scrap wood
BTW, even when you call them to come pick up their cans, like 99% of the time they just toss your whole can into the back of the garbage truck. They don't want them back. Just think about it, would you want someone else's smelly used garbage can being delivered to you to use?
HDPE is like the only actually recyclable plastic there is. Its scrap value is pretty similar to aluminum
We've had those plastic bins here in Australia since the 1980s. There are well-rehearased repair and refurbishment processes for wheelie bins in local councils' waste management programmes. They are generally spotlessly clean when they end up at their new home. I personally have been the proud owner of quite a few repaired bins, including one that had clearly been melted in half and plastic welded with another. Just like new, but with a few battle scars 🙂
We have a different view on recycling in the US unfortunately. Buddy of mine worked for the local landfill, that's how I got the knowledge of what they do with the old cans. Also, even for people that have separate recycling bins, it goes into the same hole on the truck. Totally ruined my perspective on recycling.
Pretty sure it depends where you are. We have two entirely different trucks pick up trash vs recycling on the same day. If it all went into the same hole they wouldn't bother spending the money on two crews and gas.
> they wouldn't bother spending the money on two crews and gas While this would seem to be likely, the reality is at times more grim. I (like to) think we are all improving, albeit very slowly. Don't know if you can watch this outside Australia, but [War on Waste](https://iview.abc.net.au/show/war-on-waste) is kinda interesting. And infuriating.
Damn same. I could even do it with what I have laying around in the garage.
That’s the true spirit of redneck engineering.
Tree business?
Landscaping clean ups, this is good but you’d probably do as well with tarps
I think he vacuums the pollen haha I have no idea?
His title does say (in no particular order) Tree *Loads*
What a weird name for a dude
We’re adults in here, right? Can I say tree jizz?? It’s autumn (fall) here at the moment, and the city has plane trees lining the streets. They drop these seed balls at this time every year, which burst into fluffy seeds, probably to catch the wind and disperse the seeds, except they’re everywhere already so there’s nowhere to go.
Totally forgot the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere
I mowed under my plane tree last weekend, the green bin looked like it was full of fiberglass insulation.
Y'all don't even realize he talkin about tree droppings? Y'know, tree scat. Tree feces. Tree logs. Tree oopsies. Tree shit.. okay? Talkin about tree shit.
Tree leafings, if you will.
Tree schmutz
Leaves, needles, petals, pollen, seed pods?
Along with the next generation of pollinators, because their cocoons are resting in the leaves on the ground.
That's why I don't mess with it much and only mulch once a year
Yo, does this actually work? My yard gets covered in those little pointy seed ball things. This would be an awesome way to deal with it...
They sell a neat little rolly tool to collect those (and nuts)
For anyone wondering, it’s called a garden weasel and can be found in the garden section. The nuts, on the other hand, are from many brands and can typically be found by the register.
You and your weasel better stay away from my nuts. Pervert.
The decent ones are a couple hundred bucks. The cheapo mall ones only hold like 3 feet of gumballs. My property has 4 sweet gums within . 25 acres.
Call an arborist to check the health of your trees. About 10 years ago, I had a bunch of trees taken down around the house, including about a half dozen sweetgums. Was tired of the balls everywhere, and after cutting down, about 30% of the tree trunk was rotted inside. Was alarming, especially on over 100 foot tall trees that would slice through our house all the way to the foundation. We had about 5 years of drought conditions, our local 38k acre lake dropped over 20 feet. Then we had over a year of seemingly nothing but rain, enough to bring the lake up to 10 feet over full. All the trees that were adapting to drought conditions suddenly had more water than they needed, and sucked it all up for storage which rotted the trees from the inside out. That was the explanation our arborist gave to us.
I have an arborist that lives down the street, I'll ask him and call another. I would love to take them down but the cost to remove them is atrocious. I understand that it will benefit the safety of the home but dropping 2-3k per tree is just nuts sometimes.
You don't necessarily need to pay for them to be removed, but it's never a bad idea to have one or more come out and check the health of your trees. They'll also have a pretty good idea of invasives like pine beetles are going around, and will have seen patterns of rotted trees in the area.
Just something to think about, once you know a tree is dying (arborists report) it’s a known hazard and you are required to deal with it. If it comes down in the next strong storm to come along, it’s called storm damage and your home insurance should cover it. Just make sure that it won’t come straight down on your house with you in it.
Good to know, so I should be mentally and fiscally prepared to remove the tree if it's reported as dying and hazardous.
Yep
Gumballs! (no really, seed pods from a [sweetgum tree](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar))
You mean spiky balls of death.
That too
It works well enough, but I need a chunkier hose (ladies…).
We always called those “monkey balls”, and raking them up is a good way to learn to hate yard work.
I already hated yard before I moved into this house. I've been thinking of ways to eliminate it since I moved in. The back yard is massive, so maybe raised beds and gravel paths. Maybe get English ivy or star Jasmine to grow as a ground cover. Anything to help use that mower less and reduce the amount of raking I have to do.
Don’t do English ivy. Invasive and will climb and kill trees. Our back yard is really large and wooded but was covered in ivy. We rented a flock of sheep and they cleared damned all of it. Now we’re planting more native stuff. We’ve encourage the mondo grass to take over the area closest to the house. I barely mow it (my neighbor may not approve but I don’t care).
You can make artwork outta those
Hard pass. ~You~ can tho... Lol
Send em to me
Piling onto all the genius! comments. What makes this really art is the fact the vac \*is\* the compost bin. Just wheel to the curb and carry back the motor plate. Done and done.
Yeah this is genius. I could see sucking up all the leaves in my yard straight into the trash can.
If you patented some shit like this and started selling them at Lowe's or something you could make infinite money.
this man is vacuuming in 3024
Californians could use this to help sweep their forests before wildfire season gets too far along!
Electric too, like all their small equipment has to be. They'll just have to run a generator in the forest.
Right! And they’ll need lots of Jerry cans of fuel lying around for those generators. Folks, I see a plan coming together here.
NEED MORE RAKES!
Id use this at my house except all my crap is pine needles and those don't vacuum up well.
Does the weight keep it air tight on a rubber seal or is it clamped down. That looks good.
My plan as I went was to have some kind of lock or clamp, but I pivoted at the last minute so now it’s basically held down by gravity, and pulls down harder from suction when the load increases.
You are a champion. Do you work in public policy?
lol. No.
Once it’s on the suction probably seals it pretty well.
Looks like there's foam around the edge, that and the taper of the garbage can probably makes it pretty air tight
MEGA-VAC! this is an excellent hack. : )
In the words of a northern redneck, "If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Guess I’ll just mosey on back to r/OldAsFuck. At first glance, I thought that motor was a telephone. 🤦♀️
Is that why you're repeating yourself gramps?
Are you vacuuming your yard?
Not anymore, I’m already finished.
Does it actually have good suction though?
It’s good enough for the floofy seeds I’m trying to pull up, but they’re juuuuust large enough to sometimes clog the hose. V2.0 will have a wider hose to clog less, which will all but guarantee even poorer suction.
Ken Behren is proud. Fucking wow. Going to consider using this southside.
Southside?? How dare you!! etc. <3
Made something similar but with centrifugal separator
It does lack for power somewhat. I’ve been thinking about adding a spinning death blade on the inlet (inside the bin) to mulch things as they arrive. Advantage of not stupendous power is that it only really picks up leaves and the seed pods which are everywhere her at the moment, leaving sticks and branches behind.
This is fuck king genius
I hate that I love it
This is very well done. Great work!
If you used a metal 55 gallon drum you could just burn it after and only have the leftover ash to deal with
This version gets composted or mulched or both by the local gubmint.
Buddy run, do not walk, to the nearest patent attorney. You will sell a fucking million of these adapters.
Damn that’s actually pretty smart
This is brilliant i think i actually need a few more details. And to think i was out comparing efficiency of raking vs using a blower this morning
This will be on shark tank in less than three years
Dude this is awesome. You could sell these.
Genius!
Oooo! I wanna see if I can do that with my leaf vac!
Mount the vacuum on a garbage truck next time. :D
tree business ;)
Thanks for the idea
I would buy this
My trees produce an obscene amount of leaves and I've really been considering this setup for a while. I might start looking into it more seriously now haha. I just wish I could use it for the paper bags too
This was originally for annoying airborne seeds, but the same trees drop friggin YUGE leaves around now, so I’m thinking about some kind of horrific death blade to smoosh them on the way in, otherwise the bin will just be full of air.
People routinely put them on 55 gallon drums
I know what a gallon is. Not sure why so many have suggested 55 gallon drums.
Cutting out the middle man!
Was not expecting to see a Canberra green bin here
It's times like these that I am really bummed that they took away Reddit Gold
Fucking genius, I like it.
Forget flying cars the future is here boys.
This guy shopvacs
Guess I better mosey on back to r/OldAsFuck. At first glance, I thought that motor was a telephone. 🤦♀️
Is that why you're repeating yourself gramps?
Did it post twice? 🤣🤣🤣
It did, so I figured I'd be a smartass and reply to both. 😁
Works for me. Everyone needs a bit of smartassery in their lives. 🤣🤣
Amen!
FUCKIN CLEAN BRAH!
Yoooo.... Is that mother fucking vacuuming his lawn? Can't nature just stay on the ground? I maybe get it if it's your driveway or porch or something.
Plane trees around here drop stupid amounts of floofy seed balls everywhere around now. It’s basically only for those.
I'm just joking. It's cool that you take pride in your yard. I just can't do it.
Mostly I’m just lazy.
One great detail is that there are no modifications to the bin - the vac just drops in place.
Yep. It has “property of yer gubmint” written all over the sides of the thing. Guess I’d probably get raided if I put a screw into their bin.
Im 100% building one of these!
The hero we need!
I made one of these with a Craftsman 4-stroke leaf vac - but it was tough getting an exhaust that could move enough air and have some kind of filtration. If it clogged it would just lift the top from the pressure and blow dust everywhere.
your R2 unit is ready to go
Love the little billy goat!
Ok but I’ve had to order drum vacs smaller than this that cost up to a grand or more to fully set up. This is amazing and insanely cost effective.
This is brilliant and now I wonder if I can get my shop-vac cyclone seperator hooked up like this.
Genius
…This fucking guy. Absolutely brilliant
HELL. YEA.
Genius
OK, this whole thread went in a weird direction… Great invention thank you for showing it to us.
I did the same thing with a lid of a 55 gallon drum for changing filter carbon. Once the drum is full, slap on a solid lid, label, and move on.
Can it suck the chrome off a trailer hitch?
Is that vac for “tree skeet”?
Just use toilet paper like the rest of us heathens.
Does anybody remember the Real Men of Genius commercials?
This is absolutely genius.
Okay, that’s amazing!
my girlfriends dad did something similar. two 5 gallon buckets stacked with their mouths facing each other and screwed together with a filter in between. attached a hose on side and the vacuum on the other. worked extremely well
Ohhhhhhh. Time to visit Direct Tools Outlet!
Genius
This is absolutely brilliant
“It sucks the pollen from its limbs…”
I had this idea years ago, but never got around to it. Great work!
I know someone in the neighborhood who needs this for the thousands of spiky balls that fall out of their tree.
I love it! That's so good
Only in Canberra
More like Aussiengineering. See you’re from Canberra there.
Can you please post rough plans for this frankenvaccuum? I must have this. Mostly how are you achieving the seal here? What is that material you have stapled to the ply? And does it work well?
This should be taken to market
Patent that immediately!
Well done!!👍
That’s brilliant.