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9 people found this helpful
My new favorite toy!
By barbarawr on Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023
If I win the lottery, I am buying one of these for ALL my friends and family! I spent a long time reading reviews to make sure that I wanted to spend this much money (although I paid $130 less in July than it is selling for now). I quickly decided that I wanted one with an actual blade, since I hate how often and how much time it takes to get my 'string' weed whacker working after the string breaks. I read about how people were worried about the safety of the ones with the blades, but I didn't see that about this particular model. I am totally thrilled with my purchase. It took a while to put together, and I don't really understand why some places needed lugnuts and others didn't, and it would have been nice to have some words in the instructions such as "make sure the hole in the top piece is on the same side as the wheels". I was a little worried about sticks getting stuck when I was using it, but it never happened. The thing didn't make the slightest complaint when the tiny sticks went into it, and I mostly sifted the leaves through my fingers as I was putting them in, so it was easy to pull out the larger ones. I didn't feel like it was unsafe at all.... although, if you are an extreme worrier, maybe you shouldn't take the word of somebody who still, even after watching Supernatural, puts her hand down the garbage disposal to make sure nothing bad is in it before I use it each time. I spent a few hours using it, and had no problems AT ALL, and one of my gardens now has 6 inches of leaf mulch to protect it for the winter. I love this thing SO much that I really want to show all the neighbors how great it is!
Top critical review
32 people found this helpful
VERY poor design
By Jim Krag on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2021
What I don't like about this equipment. 1. The rubber flaps over the hopper make it VERY difficult to get leaves into the machine. There is no way to do it without pushing in leaves with your hand which is slow and not safe. Also, it is not a very wide top so leaves fall out and onto the ground around the hopper requiring added cleanup effort. I finally got some tape and taped all 8 of the flaps open so it was a little easier to drop leaves in and stand back. But the problem of spillage was still present. Needs a larger hopper entry. 2. They sent a round bag for leaf debris, but there is no way to effectively put it under the place where the mulched leaves exit. I tried a bungee cord but it was ineffective. It seems that the way this is designed is to simply spew out mulched leaves onto the ground. How is that effective? I then need to pick that up. I tried to put a leaf tarp under the exit chute, but it was largely ineffective because the legs don't allow you to put in directly under and it spewed mulched leaves all over the place. They should have designed a system to place a tight bag around an opening that collects the mulched leaves. Would have been very possible. 3. I ran it for about 10 minutes before it plugged up. I tried and tried to unplug it through the opening but eventually had to disassemble the top chute (8 bolts) to remove it so I could get in to unclog it. This could have been designed so that the inevitable plug up with sticks or larger leaves could be more easily unclogged. 4. Since I spent so much on this I kept trying it but eventually went back to using the leaf vacuum/ mulcher I have that cost less than half as much and is much quicker and neater. My recommendation is to not buy this. I've wasted my money on this and won't likely be using it anymore.
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