Horse vacuums

Dumb question, but... What is the difference between horse vacuum and normal (household) one? I mean is it more quiet? Stronger? Weaker?

I believe they are more quiet. I've seriously considered just buying a wet/dry shop vac. Its like $50 vs $400+ lol. I dunno how a vaccume can handle all that hair unless it dosent have a filter.

The horse vacuums have the attachments of course, they also have the longer hose to get the vacuum further from the horse. I never thought of just using a shop vac... I don't know why that wouldn't work if you had some attachments.

I use my vacuum now and then when I don't want to give them bathes. They are nice to have but its not something you gotta have. My horses sure like it though, it nearly puts them to sleep.

The horse vacuum the barn where I used to board had was quieter, had "horse" attachments and it had a strap so you could hang it over your shoulder.

I've used small shop vacs with success on one of my guys, but it decided to not work anymore :( Sooooo I tried to use a big shop vac. That idea flew for about 3 minutes then it crashed like a ton of bricks. ;)

I believe the horse vac we had was about $200. Well worth it, IMO. It's on my christmas list...

Yes, I'm thinking about trying one of those hand vacuums to see whether it'll survive. Lol! $400 is WAY too much for me to pay for the vacuum (even though my horses are all spoiled :) ).

I have had good luck with both a small and large shop vac.

The horse vacuum I used was not really more quiet. It just had a longer hose that allowed the horse eating noise making machine to be further away.