Can Your Vacuum Flock a Tree?

[suckomatic]

What is THIS kooky business???


What is that, a Hoover Portable?


How does this work? 


Can I persuade my Kirby to do this?


My friends would laugh themselves into a stupor if they caught me doing this to a Xmas tree (which would make it all worth while). 

 

[suckomatic]

I've Answered My Own Question

I just tried to find aerosol cans of flocking, and the first thing that popped up was this flocking kit!


It looks like any vacuum with an employable exhaust can do this. Eeeeee! 

 

[rugsucker]

Tree Flocking

"a Hoover Portable"?--No!The more rare RCA Whirlpool of the late 50s.
"Kirby--do this"?Yes,if you connect the hose to the blower unlike the Eureka in pic 3.
I remember this being in a Sears catalog of about the early 60s.

 

[caligula]

It was once done in California.

Flocking Christmas trees was common in the 1930's especially in Southern California. It was used to create the 'white Christmas' effect.

Many vacuum cleaner companies used this as one more use for the spray gun, and several old time radio shows like Burns and Allen, Fibber Mc'Gee and Molly, Jack Benny and others spoke of flocking the tree with the vacuum cleaner (sprayer.)

 

[suckomatic]

Cool

Thanks rugmun, er-uh... rugsucker. 

 


HA! I didn't even notice she's flocking that tree in the suck, um,... hole. *snort*


Cool bit of history there, caligula.


I used to work for a big nursery in Michigan. We used to sell Xmas trees during the winter and had a greenhouse dedicated to flocking.


I'm sure they still do it.


It may be a little cheesy, but it's a fun look for an occasional change of pace.


I am absolutely doing this this year. 

 

[mchmike]

I could use a good flocker

 

[suckolux]

My dear aunt Millie, think Olive Oil? She used to flock every year, sometimes with color, pink, blue? on the exhaust of her ge swivel top, early 60s.It was different? But so was she!

 

[vacerator]

Mike,

as long as it isn't from a hurricane. Hope you are out of there, or at a shelter.

 

[caligula]

We always had a real tree.

Then, in 1960, my grandmother got an artifical tree. This monstrsity was pale blue, and flocked. But it got worse, with it was a color wheel instead of the lights. How I hated that tree, somewhere I have a picture of that ugly tree.

I always have a real tree, and no, it's not flocked!

 

[mchmike]

It just rained but if you watched the news the sky opened with a bright light and you heard a booming voice say come up hither.

 

[kenkart]

Re Flocker...

My Christmas Light Collecting Husband has one of these contraptions, NIB.

 

[chad]

Everyone talks about aluminum trees, (or is that just Charlie Brown Christmas). Do they exist?

 

[chan55]

Flockiung

I have always loved flocked trees,bought a new artificial one last year at Sears. Has white lights and I trimmed it in gold and brown,great. I flocked many trees with that sno jet contraption. It was a mess, so I gave it up and started buying real flocked trees.
I used a Rainbow,a Kirby classic 3 a GE upright, and a GE swivel top.They all did a fine job.
My worst mess came one year when it was a very warm day in Dec. and I thought I could do it in the driveway. We had a very nosy neighbor who came to see what I was doing. I did not hear her coming over the sound of the Kirby, and when she addressed me, I turned and sprayed her. When my wife came home she asked about my day and I told her I had committed adultry, as I flocked the neighbor's wife! Good times, good times................

 

[kenkart]

ALUMINUM TREES!

Gosh yes they are real....We have about 10 of them! LOL

 

[vacerator]

Aluminum tree;

with a spinning color light.
Yes, the news over dramatizes most events, but it is a cat. 3 storm still, and
the Miami int., and FTL. airports are still idled.

 

[vacerator]

Re; 3'rd photo

in reply #1.
How can one flock a tree with Eureka Mobile Air with the hose on the suction side?

 

[smow69]

foil tree

I bought a new one at a garage sale this summer still in tubes in the original box I decided not to use it I am partial to my green tree.Foil tree is for sale if anyone is interested. or trade for hoover convertible. these are the ones i,m looking for