<div dir="auto">The all-steel collection cart on the Noggler has a lot of steel mesh on the top and a deflector to keep blowing dust away from the tractor. I doubt you are getting the full suction force of the blower with a filter bag, honestly. You need a way to let massive volumes of air get out, it is far more powerful than my Craftsman bin arrangement was. I know from unfortunate experience that too much back pressure quickly wears out furnace blowers; I don't know if our DC blower motors have the same vulnerability.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the I-5, the factory Anderson connector set is wired to the PTO relay. When I turn on the mower, it goes live, which is what I want. There was a kit to retrofit the same connection to an E20, I think Geo's site has the wiring and installation manual? If you only want to use one tool, just unplug the other :) .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--Charlie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 1, 2019, 4:17 PM Chris Zach <<a href="mailto:cz@alembic.crystel.com">cz@alembic.crystel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some more thoughts on the vacuum:<br>
<br>
Works great picking things up, I need some sort of snout to attach to <br>
the end of the 6 inch hose so I don't tear up the hose end. Hm.<br>
<br>
Big problem with the bag: while the bag is tough, when I was picking up <br>
general debris including dirt I managed to pick up some small rocks that <br>
blew through and punched small holes in the bag. It is rip-stop nylon <br>
but I might need some sort of metal shield on the end of the blower <br>
discharge chute to limit damage. Meantime I'll try to stick to organic <br>
materials.<br>
<br>
Longer term idea may be to build a bracket that would allow me to mount <br>
the two trash cans and the bagger lid from my Craftsman tractor set <br>
behind the unit. That could take rocks and such (with lower capacity but <br>
I wouldn't use it for things like leaves.<br>
<br>
Hm....<br>
<br>
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