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Post# 353406   6/7/2016 at 13:07 (2,878 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)        

Which vac should I use for vacing the barns?  One barn is all dirt floor & no upper floor & the larger barn is dirt floor on ground level & fully carpeted on the upper two floors.  My Kenmore just took a clump full of rock hard dirt after vacing the dirt floor of the smaller barn

 

Or should I use a push sweeper?

 

I use a Lux AE but strictly for vacing the window frames & shelves

 

I am thinking about a Eureka The Boss 1934B for the upstairs floors but only if the carpet is dry; if its wet I use a cheap broom with plastic bristles

 

I might plan to install a central vac like a XXX Central X because it uses bags like a NuTone or MD & get the garage tool kit


Post# 353412 , Reply# 1   6/7/2016 at 15:05 (2,878 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)        

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What else goes well in a barn but the NSS M-1 PIG!

Just ask Tolivac. He has several.

 


Post# 353475 , Reply# 2   6/8/2016 at 03:32 (2,877 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)        

Or he could get a Shop Vac and use the large Shop Vac Filtrete bags in it.The dirt floor would be a killer for ANY vacuum!Any way of putting flooring of some sort in-Is the barn being recycled to be a home?NO vacuum was designed to pick up that kind of dirt except a street sweeper vacuum!A dirt floor would be impossible to keep "clean" as we know it.Plus you would track the dirt from it to the finished floors in that "barn".I do use the Filtrete Shop Vac bags in my NSS Pigs-SUPER!!!!One of my Pigs clean out vacuums that I add to my collection!Remember--the PIG LOVES dirt!But the dirt floor may be too much for him!

Post# 354095 , Reply# 3   6/20/2016 at 02:01 (2,866 days old) by jimjimmunster (Hammond, Ind.)        
I Would Use A Shop - Vac Industrial Model...

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I suggest a Shop - Vac Industrial model, they are rugged, well built, and easy to use. They also can handle wet enviroments, and pretty much suck up anything. I find the older Industrials better built than the latest models.

Post# 354102 , Reply# 4   6/20/2016 at 03:49 (2,865 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here)        

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Funny Trick question.

 

We don't vacuum a DIRT FLOOR. 

 

Nor do barns, where livestock, farm implements, tractors, feed and seed, and other such farm related items, have carpeted floors.

 

 


Post# 354113 , Reply# 5   6/20/2016 at 09:33 (2,865 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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Hmm dirt floor,,,,, how about a "dirt" devil. ;-)

Post# 354114 , Reply# 6   6/20/2016 at 10:09 (2,865 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)        

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I store a few vacuums and parts in my 'barn' (really just an outbuilding with a concrete floor) but I don't vacuum it. Heck, I hardly bother to vacuum the house. But I agree with others--vacuuming a dirt floor is an exercise in futility. It's MADE OF DIRT; you're never going to get it all up unless maybe you can vacuum all the way down to the bedrock, but a shovel would be more efficient.

Post# 354158 , Reply# 7   6/20/2016 at 14:58 (2,865 days old) by ralph123 (Little Rock, AR)        

Seems like you'd be better off using a leaf blower than a vacuum.

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Post# 354174 , Reply# 8   6/20/2016 at 21:04 (2,865 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
i would suggest a shop vac

Sounds like a shop vac would be your best choice, I would get the large diameter hose, I think it's around 2-1/2 inches wide, it will handle those large pieces of dirt without clogging, the only thing is, those larger hoses are harder to handle.


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