Thread: DYI Power Vacuum

A stonger pump and a chamber would allow sucking up leaves. I am going to have a lot of time in the last 3 months this year, maybe I will improve on it. Ultimately I may come up with a kit since some of it may have to be machined and most folks do not have lathes and mills.

How do you go about moving it across the bottom of your pond? Mine is 3 ft deep. I'd have to get a snorkle to do it. How about attaching pvc pipe to the outlet first for a handle and then attaching the hose to that? Would that work?

Oops! Didn't look that close at the box picture. Thanks!

very close to what i was thinking of doing....as an experiment i was gonna mount my 425 gph pump on my mucvac pole or a skimmer pole use just the muc vac head and run (hose) it to my tetrapond filter set up for fines.

Quote: Originally Posted by DrDave For a pond with depth, you will have to rig a pole to it. Swimming pool supply places have lightweight aluminum poles that should be easy to adapt to it. This is not going to work well with large stuff since the pump has to pass it. In my case, I was interested in getting the loose debries from the bottom of a kiddie pool. More owrk needs to be done for leaves and larger stuff. Ya, im getting like 30 leaves...

good idea. i like it better than using my shop vac!

thanks dr dave what a fantastic idea!!!!

Looks good DrDave