[ftp]

I've posted this before but it's bugging me that i can't find a solution.

I have a nice rigid SLX with a metal taper thread in the end. I want a fairly light metal hook to attatch to the end to drag weeds and plants out of a gutter from the ground. It needs to be light but strong and reasonably sharp with a female vikan type thread in the base.
The best idea i can think of is to try and bend a gooseneck over in a pipe bender and squash the end into a point. The only problem is goosenecks are a bit costly for experimenting with and aluminium would be brittle. Plenty of arial holders about but without the threaded tip  So any other ideas?

[Alex Gardiner]

I have one on the way from our fabricators. It is a new gutter scoop that simply screws on the end of most poles. Give us a week or so and they will be on the web-site.

[jaykie]

Youve gone and done it now Alex, youve given a date of a new item arriving, its now doomed.

Chris

[ftp]

Well done Alex, i have fashioned a scoop from a bentley brush stock and drilled through the staple holes to allow water to pass through, i have had some success with this but it wont agressively hook onto the roots of some plants that sit right in the corners. This new technology is great untill the customer asks for a gutter clean because their gutter looks like the hanging gardens of Babylon and i can only offer to wash the green off the outside.  

[windowwashers]

I would love to know how others get out trees and gardens out of a gutter that is growing under the rook tiles standing from the ground.
I use a ladder for gutters but if this could be done standing on the ground I am all ears 

[darragh windows]

I've posted this before but it's bugging me that i can't find a solution.

I have a nice rigid SLX with a metal taper thread in the end. I want a fairly light metal hook to attatch to the end to drag weeds and plants out of a gutter from the ground. It needs to be light but strong and reasonably sharp with a female vikan type thread in the base.
The best idea i can think of is to try and bend a gooseneck over in a pipe bender and squash the end into a point. The only problem is goosenecks are a bit costly for experimenting with and aluminium would be brittle. Plenty of arial holders about but without the threaded tip So any other ideas?

b and q sell something that might do you it made by gardena and clips on to a gardena pole small brush on one side scraper on the other im sure it could be modified to fit your pole


 GARDENA Combisystem Gutter Cleaner 3650-28 Turquois its on their site look it up

[ftp]

Seen those thanks but just want the hook for now. 

[Alex Gardiner]

Youve gone and done it now Alex, youve given a date of a new item arriving, its now doomed.

Chris

You are so right! Time and again I tell myself not to mention an ETA and there I go and do it again DUH!

[ftp]

............. so October then?








 

[Kevin R]

I use a gutter hook/ spike on a aluminum power pole from Omnipole . It works a treat. Its does fit on the northern tools pressure pole but is too whippy and you risk breaking the sections. The power pole is made for this job and it really does take a hammering doing this job. The weight of plants and roots wedged in a gutter can cause massive strain to a pole as you try to remove them.

I would seriously think about the risk to your pole before attempting this job.

Heres a pic of me and the gutter hook in action

[ftp]

Thanks Kev, that's the kind of thing i want but maybe on a smaller scale, i don't intend to clean big time at the moment but would like a couple of handy tools to get those anoying seedlings out that the customers spot. Often once you can get the first few inches out the rest tends to follow.

[Kevin R]

Thanks Kev, that's the kind of thing i want but maybe on a smaller scale, i don't intend to clean big time at the moment but would like a couple of handy tools to get those anoying seedlings out that the customers spot. Often once you can get the first few inches out the rest tends to follow.

[cherubs cleaning]

wintecs
 do one next day delivery


jerry

[matt]

wintecs.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=347&osCsid=201fcc9550c2abdeecc295750e55b9fe

add the www bit infront

[ftp]

  nope still no good, can't use it at 90 degrees + i need the vikan thread.

[jodan63]

jeremy clarkson would have a feild day with you!!! lol hard hat and visible vest!! only joking really

[matt]

nope still no good, can't use it at 90 degrees + i need the vikan thread.

are you using it with your fishing pole ? ? ? ?

as you can whack a unger angle joint on it and then screw it into the unger cone

[ftp]

Fishing pole  no, SLX but i want the most direct connection with no slop or play and as small as i can get away with. The biggest problem is that taper thread i reckon, if it was too cumbersome it might tear the insert out of the pole (don't want to do that). I used to have acess to an engineer and his shop a couple of years ago but now i'm totally diy and not very good.

[windowwashers]

jeremy clarkson would have a feild day with you!!! lol hard hat and visible vest!! only joking really

he stands out and looks the part hard hat IMO ott but highvis looks fine we have them then saying that hes gutter cleaning (sry thought it was windows, lid covers him and safety 

[ftp]

Tried bending a redundant gooseneck yesterday with little joy - the tubing is too big for a normal pipe bender so i tried one of those springs that plumbers use. Was looking good until the aluminium split - oops.