Corn brooms?

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Does anyone use a corn broom around the yard? Are they easier to use physically than a standard yard brush? Do they have soft or hard bristles? They look quite lightweight and 'swift', is that the case?

I seem to have given myself golfer's elbow, now known by me as obsessive sweeper's elbow, and I thought I would give one of these a go. It would be used for sweeping back shavings on rubber mats and in the dry concrete corridor through the barn.

Can anyone recommend a tough quality one to buy online? I've had a quick Google but there is such a wide range and I don't want to end up with something not up to the job. I'm happy to have a decent budget if it will get rid of the pain.

Thanks :)
 
If its what I think then one of our liveries uses one. Don't think it would be much use with a straw bed but it does her well for pellets and tidies up the yard nicely.
 
I always have one-much easier to use with an RSI than normal brooms. They vary quite a lot in quality and stiffness (some just waft stuff about) but if you get a good one they are great. They are better used in the dry, although will cope with less heavier wet stuff and great for corners, ledges and edges. All our country stores carry them up here? I would want to test drive one first :p they are never more than £11


eta horses love them don't leave then near stable doors..
 
I always use a corn broom, they're so much easier and quicker than regular brooms. The best ones I've found came from Tkmaxx. So far they've lasted for four or five years.

Eta...if you use them sweeping mostly one way, you can cultivate a sort of curve so that when you reverse the broom it's much stiffer for difficult stuck bits.
 
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We had an elderly man at a yard I was at who put so much thought into keeping his corn broom perfect. 5 sweeps each way in order to wear it evenly! I tried but really couldn't keep it up long ;)
 
We have a couple of corn brooms and I just can't get on with them at all. Much prefer the traditional yard broom :)

OP, I too have been diagnosed with golfers elbow, now that you've mentioned how you got yours I suspect mine's from the same cause as it's on appeared since I got back in to horses after a break and do a LOT of sweeping.
 
Always use them but never got the hang of wearing them out evenly...they become shaped by the individual which usually means that they aren't borrowed by other folk as they find them uncomfortable to use. Not much use for wet brushing - Ive got a more usual bristle brush for those occasions.
 
Another who loves them, they are brilliant for long dry barn alleyway as you can flick it all down in super quick time! you net a much nearer edge for beds too.

They aren't great for wet yards but they aren't horrendous though!
 
I was talking about these the other day and how useless they would be on our uncovered stable yard - they would just get filthy! Perfect for nice clean indoor yards though I imagine.
 
Love them! (I call them witches brooms!) brilliant for super quick sweeping when dry. If the yards really wet then I use a more traditional brush but it's much harder work. They start off really stiff then get softer as you use them, and there does come a point when they need replacing, usually they last about a year for me.
 
I have one, it is great inside the barn and for rafters, and really sweeps into corners. I like it so much I bought one for the house, too, which I use all the time.
They are biodegradable, just made of corn sticks and wood, so useful for firelighting at the end of their life.
 
I haven't used anything but cornbrooms for the last 10 years, I like that they are light weight , I have several in strategic places. Our old ones get burned. Plus point for me is that they only cost about $6 . :)
 
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