[Glen]

Has either of these machines been exported to any any users in Ireland? If so, could you provide contact details so I can go and have a look. 
 
The price of the Omnipole is attractive but the engine power of the Gutterkeeper may be more suitable to the Irish weather. Can the Omnipole be used in the rain?
 
Most of the initial demand would be from customers with small forests growing out of their gutters which neither machine could handle. I intend to explain this to the customer and hire a cherry picker (at their expense) for the first clean on the basis that the gutters will be cleaned twice-yearly thereafter with the vac. Any thoughts on this?
 

[Pat Purcell]

Im not going to pretend to know anything about the Gutter keeper as I dont but watching the video it appears to be a leaf blower adapted to suck instead of blow with a barrell and some plastic tubing attached, In the promo vids it seems to work great and may be well worth buying
 My only query is the price, someone mentioned that the price before shipping and Vat and customs was $4900
 A leaf blower with a 5 hp motor would cost between $400 and $600 which means your paying quite a lot for a barrell and the tubing
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=misc%2fsearchResults.jsp&BV_SessionID=@@@@1382244167.1163957333@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgaddjgmflhficgelceffdfgidgll.0&MID=9876
Im not knocking the product and everyone is entitled to make a profit but to me it seems hard to justify the price


The link doesnt take you to the leaf blower but type leaf blower in the keyword area and look at the last one on page 2

[Jeff Brimble]

Like the idea Pat. There would have to be an air intake capable of taking a tube. It would also need wet fluids filtration system ?

[Pat Purcell]

Jeff If you look at the link again some of the smaller hand held leaf blowers have a leaf vac as well( I got one it works great) and there doesnt seem to be any need for filters
, Mine sucks up leaves and deposits them in a bag which admittedly I have to empty into another bag but thats what you get for $100. tried it yesterday with the gutter attachment $11 on sale for reaching up to 15 ft, it blows the gutter out instead of sucking but worked fine as I keep my gutters pretty clean,
 Mine is a POULAN PRO PBV200 le if you want to look up the specs, Its not commercial grade or anything but if you were blowing out a dozen or so gutters a week that were ragularly maintained then it would work fine,
The guter keeper again looks like a fine piece of equipment and I kniow that gas powered machinery is expensive over there but from my perspective its over priced

[Jeff Brimble]

I hope you dont mind a bit of criticism Pat. I have used a pressure washer pipedrain snake  cleaner on the end of a pole(it is not easy) The pressure of air and water blasts all the muck all over the building facade which you then have to clean. With the rain over here and in Cork we get guttters like drainage ditches- full of stnky muck. So although a leaf blower sounds good in the summer maybe not so in the winter ?

[Pat Purcell]

No problem with criticism Jeff and  i did get some muck flying out of the gutter when I used it but I was thinking more along the Lines of once a month giving a quick once over to remove dry leaves twigs etc call it gutter maintenance rather than cleaning with a once a year dug out of the heavy stuff which hopefully would not have accumulated if you were diligent with the former, It took me about ten minutes to go around my house( about 100 ft of gutter) so you would not be charging much , but your [point is well taken if the gutter was full then the Gutter keeper or similar Vacuum system would be the way to go
So how long will it take you to bodge something together

[Jeff Brimble]

Well the plumbing waste attatchements elbows etc  for the modular hollow fishing poles are already to go to any height ( I had been thinking of it as a suck system) and I really do like the idea of a regular blow out  service.( Would probably be easier on dry days). I think you have come up with a suggestion well worth experimenting with. The backpack blowers wouldnt take up much room in the vehicle

[G & M]

Glen, we were thinking of hiring out an industrial  wet and dry vac from a hire shop which would be fairly powerful, although we still haven't got around to doing it. Perhaps it might be the way to go. Also if it worked you could buy one secondhand from the hire shop. The guy in the shop said he would extend the hose for us.
ps what part of Ireland are you from? Michael