How does it work on picking up sand and not scattering it around?
627523
not really sure caz i have not vacuumed up sand, but i works great on suger.
627524
whatever you do don't turn one of these upside down :) be like punching an open bag of flour but wow does it pick up dust looking at this one. :) got a Shark Knockoff at Aldi's and even at $15 that thing is a monster. ignore the motor... it's just there to spin the brushes.
627525
Not so great with sand. I use it on my carpets and small tile areas and love it for that...
627526
Never used it on sand, but worked great for cat litter and hair. Works very well for kitchen crumbs and I even use it in the family room on low carpet. Doesn't spread anything around. Litter stays in the collector unti you empty it.
730154
I haven't had to pick anything up by hand yet! If it doesn't pick it up head on then it does sideways. This is a stick, not a dyson. I have had 3 sticks and this is the best by far. One was so bad I gave it to my friends grand daughter to play house with. Take your time, be thorough and this stick will clean as I stated barefoot clean!
1117587
It is sort of like a dust buster mounted on a stick. I have not tried it with sand but to be safe you might want something with a more powerful motor.
1252738
It picks up a little bit of everything. It will pick up pine needles and grass that has been cut. You can adjust height as wel.
604863
It picks up a lot of dust but only minimally disperses it into the air. I was amazed of the dirt it picked up after sweeping a spot that I thought was clean.
862118
If you never take it outside, maybe. If you use it outside, it can pick up dirt, sand, etc and really make a mess of your floors.
666029
It does pretty well at sand.. The unit is very light.. We have an oreck but tend to use this instead
2153256
I have had good luck with this in sand, it's not loose sand but it pulls very easily in my soil.
1198170
I just read the previous comments and decided to elaborate on my response. Keep in mind this is a "duster" so I used it after sweeping to get the smaller stuff that sweeping leaves behind but bare feet find immediately. I also used it in between sweeping to pick up dirt hair and what not. It will not pick up big stuff, and the product description states that. I loved it because I could finally walk bare footed through my house without having stuff stuck to them! If the duster starts spinning in one place you need to open up the wheel housing to remove whatever is binding the axle. In my case, my long hair was wrapped around it. I was able to Google the instructions and it is an easy fix.
1807695
It's great for the beach but of course won't roll well through sand if it's not packed down. Easy to clean by lifting out the hard plastic liner and you can just flip over and pat the sand off.
1604859
Yes. Depending on how much sand you need to pick up and how much time you have. I use this to pick up sand in my Hot tub brought in by grand children works great!
79303
It catches real small pieces. I think it might the only thing that tends to slip through is sand which is fine for my uses
750319
We use it only for light cleaning, but I believe that the unit was not design for picking up sand, just an opinion...
266495
Sand will make it heavier....with water, it moves around a bit when i punch it. but sand should make it a lot tuffer to push around...Also i believe emptying the sand off the base is going to be tuffer than emptying water off the base....
1255597
There are two handles/lifts on the truck. One lifts the entire scoop up and the second lever controls the dump feature of the scoop. So yes it can scoop up a load of sand in the sandbox and then lift and dump into a dump truck. My little granddaughters love their Tonka trucks.
137684
I have sand and it worked fine. Any type of vacuum requires finesse to clean sand. I have a battery operated and a larger version of this and I use them same way. You just hover over, or swish back and forth to get at the yuck. If you get some sand sucked up, just empty your bucket, scoop out the sand, rinse it, and replace it in your aquarium. Gravel is harder to work with because you have to get under it and that means having to suck it up into the tube which clogs it.
666033
Well, I don't deal with sand but it does pick up scattered cat litter! Also, after throwing away one too many vacuums,I am meticulous about cleaning it after every use-all filters and the brushes underneath included.