Pentair Aquatics Pond Leaf Eater Brush/Whl

by Pentair

Product Features

• Made by Pentair Aquatics
• Model Number 211044

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002566A6
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #540,048 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Works with garden hose to remove large debris and leaves from ponds and fountains. Includes standard mesh bag, snap-adapt handle, and brushes for smooth surfaces and wheels for hard bottoms. 3' and 5' large capacity bags are also available.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product to remove leaves, October 30, 2004

By 

Mark Schweim "rcmodelr" (Enterprise, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentair Aquatics Pond Leaf Eater Brush/Whl

I've used one of these for several years to clean swimming pools. With the provided bag, it works to pick up small sticks and heavy leaf accumulation, but without the optional silt bag, if there is a lot of fine dirt or sand in the pool or pond, it won't take long before all the fine debris is stirred up to the point where you will lose sight of the bottom and what you're trying to pick up.

If you hav a lot of dirt or sand in the pool or pond, you WILL be wishing you had gotten the optional silt bag. The really fine silt passes through the silt bag enough to cloud the water, but the silt bag will allow the leaf eater to pick up and hold most of the dirt and sand leaving only the finest debris behind.

As supplied, I'd give the leaf eater 4 out of 5 stars. If it came with the silt bag IN ADDITION TO the leaf bag at NO additional charge, that 4 star rating would improve to a 5 star rating.

Only problem with the optional silt bag is that if there is a lot of fine silt, the water flow may reduce forcing you to empty the bag before the bag is actually full just to restore the water flow enough to pick up the leaves.

Best method, FIRST clean bulky debris (leaves, etc.) with provided mesh bag, then, if you don't have a vacuum to hook up to a pump to pull silt out of pool/pond, switch to silt bag to remove the fine silt.

With swimming pools, I usually use this product for most of the leaves, then switch to pool vacuum with system switched to WASTE to vacuum fine debris out of pool after allowing 12 - 24 hours for stirred up silt to settle to bottom.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointed, July 28, 2006

By 

Joe Meahl "pond user" (pond user) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pentair Aquatics Pond Leaf Eater Brush/Whl

I ordered this device for a small pond. When the leaf eater arrived I discovered it was much too big for my pond. It works ok to get remove big leaves but smaller items flow through the provided bag making the water muddy. It was not until later that I discovered that the bag with smaller holes is an option that should have been a part of the original purchase. I believe I was mislead.