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Attached are some images of my original homebrew vac cart. The impeller fam on this unit is home made and really does a great job. Intake duct is 7" and its suction is powerfull enough to use it as a vac without the aid or assist of the blades onthe mower deck. It hold close to 2 times the amount of the Agri Fab vac cart, and is powered by an 8 hp B&S I/C engine. Frame is a salvaged treadmill frame which was made from some really heavy walled rectangular steel tube which is unusual for a treadmill. The side panels are from a store display. These panels are made of welded wire in grid form with 1/4" round stock wires spaced at roughly 1.25" x 6" spacing on a 1" sq tube frame. Also attached to this frame is a channel that accepts the backboard which is a 5/16" thick plastic material. The front panel is a piece of 1/8" thick aluminum plate with a 6" PVC dishcharge duct entering it. The trailer dumps and has a rear mounted side hinged wire panel door with a mesh type fabric which serves as the exhaust filter outlet. It does a good job of allowing fine dust etc to escape but retains the junk thats sucked up, and does not make a lot of dust.
Inside of thr trailer is a duct with a baffle that allows the heavier stuff to fall towards the front and the lighter stuff to the rear and the air to flow out the back mesh panel. The two vertical tubes on the front portion are for hlding my pitch fork and rake.
It is more than capable of sucking up acorns and pinestraw and pinecones, without clogging. It can be filled to the top and still allows easy dumping of a solid packed cube of collected materials. The Agri-Fab unit has to be emptied befor its too full or it builds up collected debri above the actual dump door opening, and this makes it hard to get all the collected material out without having to fork it out, until you get it down to a level that will pass under the top of the rear door.
Inside of thr trailer is a duct with a baffle that allows the heavier stuff to fall towards the front and the lighter stuff to the rear and the air to flow out the back mesh panel. The two vertical tubes on the front portion are for hlding my pitch fork and rake.
It is more than capable of sucking up acorns and pinestraw and pinecones, without clogging. It can be filled to the top and still allows easy dumping of a solid packed cube of collected materials. The Agri-Fab unit has to be emptied befor its too full or it builds up collected debri above the actual dump door opening, and this makes it hard to get all the collected material out without having to fork it out, until you get it down to a level that will pass under the top of the rear door.
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