LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

You need to use it more, i wear mine out with in a year or is that because they're not made very well now or i've got alot of to sweep up

 

You are probably not going to believe me but below is what we use for sweeping everywhere. I will now never ever use your a typical yard broom. The big heavy bristle type brooms are so tiring to use when you have mountains of leaves to collect and a long long driveway to keep clear.
When you have horses there are a few things you become expert in and 1 is sweeping to keep the stable area clear. When we had 3 horses here I would spent maybe about 1/2 an hour a day sweeping up after them with the typical yard brush, then a friend introduced me to a Sweepa broom. Looks pretty naff and head is smaller than I would choose but they are brilliant. So light to use and the rubber bristles are soft so make a fantastic job of sweeping up. They don't last forever if you use them a great deal as we do but I will never buy any other kind of broom again. Great for indoors too, hairdressers @shiney use them I believe.
You can buy just the heads and the poles are pretty much bog standard which you can get from the likes of B and Q. Do not get the JML wonder broom thingy which is a copy. They are rubbish as don't have the all important soft bendy bristles.

 

@silu, that looks like the rubber brooms they sell here which are great for getting cat hair off carpet so it doesn't clog the vacuum.

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You could well be right @Victoria as the friend who recommended them to me breeds dogs. I didn't think about using them outside until I broke my bog standard broom and used the Sweepa as a stand in...some stand in. I know it is somewhat sad to be excited about a broom but when I was trying to keep 3 horses and the driveway not looking like a tinkers yard, anything to make my life simpler was a godsend and the Sweepa does that alright. I think they were originally from the USA? The older ones had bigger heads but nowadays they are a bit smaller, no doubt a bit like Mars Bars which back in the day were huge now you could stick 1 in your eye.

 

I heard you have had twenty new heads & twenty new handles

 

Shiney dare I ask who's the youngest

 

Somebody else is picking the local Elderberries!

Good job I took my pole with a hook on the end for pulling down the higher bunches, because somebody else had taken nearly all the low hanging fruit.

 

@Scrungee that'll teach you for lying in too late

I have a problem with squirrels tsking a bit out of a crabapple and then discarding. Luckily I have my handy dandy crabapple/nut picker upper



But I still hate stepping on them in between rolling this guy around...

 

Its good to share Scrungee.