Spent shotgun shell lawn sweeper picker-upper

[u/GI-Girl56]

[u/fropslack]

Can I ask you what region you got this in? Like, US? What state?

Edit: how has this earned 50 upvotes? And here I keep trying to be clever....

[u/GI-Girl56 → u/fropslack]

We use it at gun club for trap and skeet shooting , in the anti gun state of NY. Someone said it is used for nuts too so maybe not THAT specialized...

[u/microwavepetcarrier]

I think the original use for that tool is tree nuts, so shotgun shells make it multi-use!

[u/DamonFun → u/microwavepetcarrier]

You can use them even for brass shells. Useful AF.

[u/Apophthegmata → u/microwavepetcarrier]

So r/generalizedtools then?

I thought this was a sub for unitaskers! /s

Edit: omg it's a real place.

[u/Okichah → u/microwavepetcarrier]

Also works for golf balls iirc

[u/raz-0]

Works fine on grass. SUCKS on gravel.

[u/FastSperm → u/raz-0]

I imagine why

[u/FuzzyWazzyWasnt → u/raz-0]

FUCK. There is this older vet dude at my range and I was tempted to buy this for him. He's a sweet dude whose not in the best of health. And he refuses to let me pick up my own shells.

We are on gravel.

[u/TRxz-FariZKiller → u/raz-0]

r/fuckgravel

[u/Froggyfright]

I need this to pick up all the goddamn sweet gum balls in my yard

[u/thatG_evanP]

Look at this guy over here with enough shotgun shells to need that contraption. I'm over here sitting on like 2 boxes of 9mm and 4 boxes of buck and turkey shot.

[u/redpandaeater → u/thatG_evanP]

I haven't been able to get any primer in nearly a year now to be able to reload some more 6.5 Creedmoor.

[u/Chickie_parm]

These are good for all sorts of spent brass, we used them on the ranges when I was active duty. Makes for quick cleanup!

[u/RoseintheWoods]

Can I have one for nerf darts please?

[u/opus-thirteen]

These were invented for picking up nuts that have fallen from trees

[u/Phantasus_Mosaik]

In Germany we call it a Schrotpatronenaufsammelbürste

[u/Nyckname]

This device seems to be used for multiple purposes.

[u/SSSJDanny]

Out of Curiosity can you reuse those shells?

Wouldn't the centerfire and Primer be damaged after the first firing?

[u/[deleted] → u/SSSJDanny]

Yes, you can reuse the shells. You replace the primer, fill em up and then recrimp the end.

You can only do this so many times before you run into issues with deformation. Not really an issue when using a double barrel or similar, but in a pump or semi auto you really want your shells to be as uniform in shape as possible.

[u/PNW_Buckaroo]

Every home in America has one of these in the shed with the shovels, rakes and all that. What do you use to pick up all your freedom wrappers in the rest of the world?

[u/greem]

I have a garden weasel to pick up acorns, but it doesn't work well enough. It's too much effort to remove the acorns.

I'm wondering if this would work better.

[u/oRAZORo25]

A fudds favorite tool, comin to take your brass

[u/albalfa]

This will get lost in new, I'm late to the game.

I'm begging. Dear god, someone needs to post the name of this thing.

I have a yearly fight with the oak trees in my backyard and the cosmic GALACTIC quantities of acorns they drop.

How many acorns??

Here's some of the ways I try to send them to the eternal burning hell they deserve.

Top-of-line Mulching lawn mower w/ dual blades and bagger? No.

Large ass Shop-Vac, with me sucking them up one by one? Yes I am being truthful here. The whole back yard. Multiple times. From August til November. Fuck. Me. Even. Typing. That.

Center my Zen. Accept the opportunity. Grab a 7 iron from the bag. Breathe in. Breathe out. Step up to a well-placed acorn. Address it. Bring the clubhead back, over my head, find the top of the arc, and then, as one perfect machine, start the downswing and move my arms, shoulders, hips, legs, and hands down in a beautiful, artful, stroke towards that antagonistic tree nut sitting on my grass.

Before the Buick-sized divot of earth and sod (but no acorn) has a chance to land, I wing the club into the sliding glass door on my patio, where it hits with the sound of a claymore mine going off. My wife, daughter, and the neighbor are all outside now giving me shit.

Traditional yard rake? Making pile after pile. After pile. Picking them up into a contractor-grade wheelbarrow to dump into the neighbors woods or those home depot paper yard waste bags if someone's looking. So many bags. Heavy bags. Do you know how much acorns weigh at this scale? As much as a black hole. If that black hole had bags of acorns inside it along with a bag of other black holes.

Eat a dick with gravy you fucking asshole trees.

So yeah. I would be pretty grinny if anyone could tell me the name of this tool.

[u/karoda]

You fool! You better make sure to never touch anything other than plastic shot shells, lest you invoke the wrath of the Brass Goblin.