Leaf vacuums are nothing but vacuums attached to a push lawn. They are used to vacuum, twigs, leaves, small pebbles, trash and other debris from lawns. They could be called an extension of your good old push mower. Any one with a fair enough sized lawn knows about the difficulties in maintaining one. If there are deciduous trees in your lawn or garden. Then you have got your work cut out. Your lawn is left resembling a bed of leaves, in no time. Not any longer, thanks to leaf vacuums. They are much better than leaf blowers or even lawn sweepers. They are more versatile and perform a great job of keeping your lawn clean.

A leaf vacuum makes taking care of your lawn, an easy job. They take away the drudgery out of raking or blowing the leaves. You just have to take a stroll along the park, while they do all the work, sucking up the leaves. Not only do they suck the leaves, they also mulch them and pack the mulch into a bag. The mulched leaves make for great compost, which acts as valuable nutrients for the soil. Mulch is of great value to any lawn.

These leaf vacuums are extensively used to clean walkways and driveways. Leaf vacuums used for cleaning walkways and driveways often come with a fitted flexible hose to suck the leaves from hard to reach places, as they provide increased maneuverability. Then there are the commercial or heavy-duty lawn vacuums, which are attached to the back of a lawn mower or a rider mower. They have a engine that provides the suction with a hose. They are extremely powerful machines with the ability to collect an assortment of debris, when compared to smaller leaf vacuums. They are also famed for their greater mulching capabilities, with the ability to even collect wood shavings.