Emptying yard vacuum bag

[edcantu9]

Does anyone have this issue?

When it is full I need to empty it, but its always a mess. I do not have a spot I can just throw it out. I need to empty the bag into a city yard waste pickup bag. Those brown tall bags. Does anyone have any tips on what is the fastest way to get into that bag without making a mess?

 

[hoffman912]

How big of a yard vac are you taking? i have a blower vac and it dumps into the bag pretty easy..

 

[dawgee]

i think Lowes and Sams club sell a corrugated plastic looking thing called a leaf chute it folds up into a chute holds the bag stiff and easier to fill. They use to be green i think they are blue now

 

[edcantu9]

Its a Troy Bilt yard vacuum. Here is one for example.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00444VM0A/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[dawgee]

this is what im talking about http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leaf-Easy-Plastic-Leaf-and-Lawn-Chute-LELLCP/202491987

 

[Jeeper]

http://www.prattplus.com/browse/pac...oard/specialty/corrugated-lawn-funnel-pra0216


I have wanted to buy these but their shipping is crazy. I made one last year out of cardboard and duct tape however the tape eventually failed. Worked well until then.

 

[JCQuick]

Well I can understand what your going thru I have simular machine made by Billy goat but I have a big pile in the very back of my property that I just dump all the stuff. it compost its self

 

[rlitman]

Its a Troy Bilt yard vacuum. Here is one for example.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00444VM0A/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I've had a couple of those. The opening on the vacuum bags is a bit small. On all these machines, the bag is easier to empty when it is less full. As it gets really full, it packs tighter, and gets stuck in the bag.

I believe they make a metal frame for those paper bags. If not, you can cut the bottom out of an old plastic garbage can and use it as a funnel.

 

[themiller]

See if your city will empty the 33gallon trashcans so long as you put a sticker on them.

^^ How I solved my bag -> bag problem. They do make spreaders for the bags. Pretty cheap and I wasn't happy, as the bags still tipped over.

 

[St-rider]

I used this

http://www.prattplus.com/browse/pac...oard/specialty/corrugated-lawn-funnel-pra0216

until I bought this
http://www.truevalue.com/product/Funnel-For-Paper-Lawn-Leaf-Bags/6975.uts
last year.

The plastic one works well.

 

[Richard Cranium]

can you put the bag in the vac?

 

[rlitman]

can you put the bag in the vac?

Lol, no. The vac bag is a filter that must let air through it.