Our pool (16x32 AG vinyl liner) has trees nearby and collected tons of leaves, sticks and sweet gum balls during the last extra-windy thunderstorm. I quickly discovered that with this volume of leaves the vacuum was not the answer (I just have the manual vac that came with the pool.) The leaves and especially the sweet gum balls stopped up the vacuum hose. I ended up using the leaf skimmer (and my toes) to get the big stuff off the bottom then vacuumed. All is fine now, but for future reference - anyone have any tips for getting a large volume of leaves off the bottom of the pool? Thanks!