How is it with pine needles, cones, etc?
1370705
It picks up pine needles, pine cones, sticks, and leaves very consistently. Due to the size of the pine cones & sticks and the ability for the pine straw & leaves to clump together, this allows the lawn sweeper to gather them up better. The only hard thing that I found to pick up are the sweet gum tree fruit balls. The sweeper tends to keep pushing them forward rather than sweeping them up into the bag, but after some continuous effort of going back and forth it will eventually pick them up.
1370706
I have several huge pine trees with the 3-6 inch long needles. It works great on them once you get the hang of setting the height of the brushes. It will pick up pine cones, but sometimes it flips them out in front of the sweeper too. I usually just pick up the cones by hand and throw them in the basket as I walk behind the sweeper. I like my lawn clean and this sweeper is just the ticket for cleaning up after those messy pine trees.
1370707
Don't have pine needles right now but it does great with magnolia tree leaves and bulbs. Have a grass catcher on my mower so very little grass to sweep. Will definitely use it for the live oak worms (as I call them). Pine needles will come back next month but know it will take care of those as we live in the Piney Wood Forrest.
1370708
IT picks up everything not held down, used it this weekend to lift up pils nearly 6" deep of leaves, branches, cuttings and papers, two passes and all that was left was lawn.
2163804
I honestly don't know much about this pine other than it seems to be a popular house plant....most pines live sandy soil and need balanced fertilizer. These spikes are 16-4-4, if I remember....I don't have them in front of me...but I think you might be better with something like 20-20-20, which you should be able to get at any great garden store.
260429
I haven't tried it with that. But, pine needles are full of sap, so while I would expect the machine to pick them up, they will likely clog the internal parts. It certainly will blow those little guys, tho, so you could blow them into a pile and pick them up (with gloves, of course.)
1525088
I think 30 to 40 pine cones I am afraid i may have added a few to that stash I also found them mostly one type of pine cone.
1847344
Thanks for the advice. I would hate to spend all that money on this machine for it to break just because I love the smell of Pine-Sol!
1840434
No...it is cheap and easily split pine. Maybe with the right stain you can make it look like cedar, but if it is cedar, I never saw any like it before in my life, and I live in the cedar woods.
145724
Flo-Free works very well with pine needles. They will sit on top of the Flo-Free, but the water can still flow through.
2121317
Thank you for replying. I have a flowerbed filled in with river rock that I have been having difficulty removing pine needles from. I don't want to get every last one but it looks shabby the way it it.
1121557
It kinda depends on how syrup-ey you like your sno-cones and how big you make em too. I'm a big fan of the syrup and got at least 15 out of each of the flavors i'v used so far.
835539
Awesome.I have pine trees also...this has heavy sheet metal on roof! It takes at LEAST 3 people to assemble.
505504
My set is pine. Highly recommend this product. Our family and friends are having a blast playing it in the backyard.
2121315
I don't have a pine tree and live in a very dry climate but it does pick up small twigs from a blue palo verde tree and those twigs are larger and heavier than reasonably dry pine needles. As with any blower-vac, you can clog it if you try to pick up a huge pile of anything. Just work from the edges and it should do fine. I'm still amazed at how much better it is than my previous one from a different manufacturer.
1256362
Not sure about pines. I have sprayed it around hardwood trees and it does not effect them.
950067
for some cones, i did cut the tip off. I had better luck putting some small holes in the groves on the side. I have used the watering cones for about six months. Working okay.
1223182
I don't think it will grow right under the pine. I have a huge spruce and nothing grows close to the trunk. However, I have used clover in the area. My back yard is very shady and clover grows better than grass in the shade.
2220103
Hello Jim B. I drilled a 3/4" hole in a scrap of pine. The tip of the half round goes in however, it would be unsatisfactory for what you are doing. You might think about the round file in this set.
1382319
We used it on pine, as well. This company (Cedarshield) has gone through some "changes." I would check the website and talk to a person. We used about seven gallons of this product and so far we have been pleased, but only time will tell if it really holds up.