Lost the bag for my leaf mulcher/vacuum - DIY solution?

ChrisJJ

Hi,
I have an electric toro leaf blower & mulcher/vacuum. The bag attachment for using it as a mulcher/vacuum is missing. It's not on the shelf I keep the blower & attachments and I suspect it was knocked off sometime this summer and is now in hiding. I'm pretty sure it'll turn up and so I don't want to buy a replacement. Especially since a replacement bag cost just a little less than buying another whole leaf blower/mulcher kit. I don't want two leaf blowers.

So I'm thinking of cobbling up a DIY version of the bag. Maybe using an extra large pillow case & a hose clamp. Or maybe attaching one of those big paper leaf bags to the outlet with lots of duct tape. Or would that blow up like a balloon and pop? I haven't thought this out completely. Has anyone made a quick & dirty leaf vacuum bag?

Rav

I can't help you with a DIY bag, but I'm not sure why getting a replacement bag should be so expensive. I don't know which Toro electric blower/vac/mulcher you have, but I have the Toro model 51599 Ultra Vac ($84 at Amazon). The replacement bag for it (model 51601), which I have ordered myself previously, is about $20 at Amazon. Agreed it's rather expensive for a canvas bag with a zipper and a strap, but (at least for this model) you could buy four for the price of the new blower/vac/mulcher. And it's hard to imagine a pillow case and hose clamp not ripping or coming apart until the intense pressure of 235 MPH/255 CFM air (for the 51599, at any rate). But perhaps the blower and bag you have are a different model and much closer together in price, so YMMV.

life_aquatic

How about this?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Leaf...eaf-Hog-Snout/

However I think I would just take that basic idea and use a cloth bag over the garbage can, like the commercial versions do. Shucks, now I think I've given myself a project idea that I don't really have time for right now.