The new ones do too. They have a self propulsion thing so they're not so hard to move around. Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: They really suck. On Aug 27, 2017 3:17 PM, "MG via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The wife brought home her Mom's Kirby upright vacuum that Mom had been > using since the old man bought it for her back in the 50's. Seems our > second daughter had laid claim to it many years ago and grandma told her it > was hers when she was done with it. Well the time is here and June takes it > down to her. SIL takes one look at it and asks my daughter what possible > use she could have for an old piece of junk like that. Mind you this has > all the original attachments still in the original boxes. So Samantha being > the good wife decides she doesn't want it. I really thought I had taught > her better. Anyway I decided to vacuum the living room, kitchen and hall > today. OMG!!!! what a workout! It isn't that the thing is heavy, the > kitchen was easy, but when I hit the carpet it was like pushing a tank. You > could see the vacuum picking up the carpet. I wish my "heavy duty" shop vac > had even half the suction of this. I may see if I can steal this to use in > the shop, but I'm very much afraid that I may not get a chance. June thinks > it "isn't too bad" so I'll just have to dream about an adequate shop vac. > > I've heard about how good these are but as they say seeing is believing. I > guess the next job is taking it apart and doing a service, clean and oil. > I'll be Googling for that later. > > MG > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com