Earthwise LSW70021 21-Inch Width Leaf & Grass Push Lawn Sweeper, Black

I was - like many - a little skeptical when I seen this product, but decided to give it a try. Some context: I do have a full household of the sleep-all-day / turn-up-half-way-through-any-chore-and-offer-help adolescents, so its difficult to get help when it comes to things like raking and collecting leaves. I own two leaf blowers, a battery powered over the shoulder type as well as a B&D leaf hog. Both work well if you want to blow leaves into a big pile, or suck and mulch into a trash can (assuming you have the attachment). However: - if you're blowing leaves into piles you still have to scoop them into the trashbags, try getting that going on a slightly windy day. - if you're blowing leaves then mulching into a trash bag, on a dry day you'll get a LOT of dust from the shredding. So they kind of work, but they still have their disadvantages. The target yard is just over half an acre all told. One tree out front, three out back. All of course shedding leaves at slightly different times. I'll say 'average'. The lawn sweeper is easy enough to put together, some areas aren't too clear but nothing i couldn't work around. It does have a stopper on the front for raising and lowering the brush height, you might need to play with this a little to get what works for you. You can also play with the brush height a little as you push it round the yard to get the optimal height for scooping up the leaves. So I tried this on a lawn with a scattering of leaves, does work but it will pick up most leaves, but not all. Where it really comes into its own is with a denser coverage. However on really dense coverage you're likely to have to run a rake through to loosen up the leaves a little first. See the pictures for an idea of its effectiveness. It does fill up quite quickly and you'll find yourself reaching in to compress the leaves while you're going. One pass of the yard was enough to fill up the collection bag, but you're going to be stopping where the coverage gets denser, compressing the leaves, backtracking and pushing on. (I much prefer this minor inconvenience to stooping over and collecting leaves with a scoop) NOTE FOR MANUFACTURERS: a helpful design improvement for the collection bin would be a hinged flap with a cord or a pull-plate with a cord, to let the operator compress the leaves in the bag towards the back so you can collect more leaves in a single pass. Circling back to the product. Unloading the bag and tipping it into a trash bag works with the bigger backs and the medium sized ones. For the medium sized bags you'll see I take the collector out and hold it on its side and pull out the leaves by hand, which works just fine. But get yourself a bag stand to take the initial few deposits of leaves, then pull it out of the frame, compress and it'll be ready for a few more. Don't know if it makes sense for the manufacturer to provide one, but they might be missing out on an opportunity for a few more sales. Overall: - works well on medium coverage - collection bin can get filled easily, have to stop and compress - twigs will clog it, remove them first - unloading is straightforward, take out, tip it on its side above the bag and unload by hand. - will be defeated by dense coverage, loosen it up with a rake first to spread it out then collect it. - wet leaves are not your friend.. let them dry - use the adjustable stopper at the front if the holding height when operating isn't high or low enough All in all its a very good product that means one person can collect leaves (as long as you get a bag stand as well). I'm very happy with it and look forward to seeing some improvements in future versions, by which time I'll probably need a replacement or spare parts. A lot less stooping to load up oversized bags in the windy weather. No more dust from mulching. I can tackle the leaf-collection gradually on my own without much help. Its not for everyone, but if you can't afford a ride along mower with the leaf collector attachment and you have the same problems with leaf-collection that I do , this might be just the thing for you. Thanks guys!

Easy to put together but the instructions did not exactly match the actual unit. Things like clips were actually loops on the actual piece. It was easy to figure out just frustrating to have to pull parts apart because the instructions said the would clip in but in reality had to go through a loop. But once it was together it worked pretty well. It’s much better on your back than raking but not as efficient as a riding mower with bagger. The bag fills up quickly so you have to empty it frequently and I had to push the leaves to the back of the bag to allow more leaves to go in. It will take a couple passes to get all the leaves but I’d say it picked up 75% on a single pass. You can see how it did in the before and after pictures. The after was after one pass with the sweeper.

Maybe worth $40 and it could be so much better with a few design changes. You will need several passes over the same areas to fully capture all leaf debris. Initial thoughts: - Instructions: The assembly instructions were a little dark in print for seeing the detail on the first three steps. - Adjustability for the user height- None -This is more comfortable on the arms for those under 5'9" - The bag design is a wide open mouth type catchment, this allows for gravity to hopefully catch leaves by the brushes fling them forward and up in to the scoop sending them backward at the top of the wheel/brush rotation. This causes a couple of problems. Approximately 10%+ of the debris will fly off to the side missing the bag. The user will also get dust, insects and pollen thrown up in the air as you walk forward in to the cloud. With the threat of fleas, ticks and airborne particles affecting allergies; this design seems odd. You should remove clothes before entering your home. - Most Acorns and similar weight tree litter will not lift and backward through the 20 inches of needed travel required by the brush catchment. Redesign ideas: Add a higher backstop and side fences for the flying debris and extend the front brush shroud another 8 + inches. I'd pay $15 more for these minimal changes. Full redesign could be for reversing the brush rotation so debris will go back and under, in to a lowered collection bag, with a sweep under motion. Then the top of the bag would not need to be so open and the dust cloud reduced. When considering all criteria versus the cost, this product deserves a rating of two stars or lower. The five star reviewers should mention their criteria, it is confusing shoppers who want true value in products.

I probably put this thing through the toughest test right out of the box. I de-thatched my front lawn which is about 7500 square feet. This sweeper picked up about 85% of it which I’m not sure it’s made for stuff this heavy so I was impressed. The faster you push it the better it throws the grass into the bag. There are some cons I noticed right away. The grass gets caught on the “lip” of the bag right where it comes out of the brushes and will block more grass from being thrown into the bag so you have to stop every 10 feet or so to push it into the bag by hand which is annoying but as I said, not sure it was intended to be used this way. Other than that, the performance was good. The only other negative I could find was the “bar” that holds the bag onto the handle is already breaking. It’s cheap flexible plastic and I can’t see it lasting very long. When you go to snap the plastic “clasps” back onto the bar, they bend and I already see stress marks in the plastic where it’s bending and eventually going to break. I’ve used it for about 3 hours total out of the box so this is not good at all.

This works better than I expected. Great for leave and small trash clean up before a mow.

Excellent, used on synthetic lawn

Non mi aspettavo che risolvesse i problemi della raccolta delle foglie, le foglie le raccoglie ma non è efficiente come avrei desiderato. Sicuramente va meglio sulle superfici piane, se ci sono piccoli avvallamenti non riesce a raccogliere le foglie.

Eigentlich gutes Gerät hatte mir vorgestellt dass es besser kehrt

Well, from the picture, you can see what it can do. This is a 50 x 99 inch trailer full of dead grass. It took me maybe 1 hour to fill this up with the lawn sweeper. It is probably the best purchase I made in the last 8 years. Your grass has to be around 2 inches long before winter if you want it to work very well. I also used a professional scarifier before using the sweeper. I used to work a full day on my lawn without these 2 tools, but today I can say it took me around 2.5 hours to do it. It saved me a lot of time. Pros: - Lightweight - Very effective - Easy to remove the container Cons: - The container fills up very quickly if you have a lot of dead grass and it could clog a bit (you have to do a second pass sometimes). - Lawns with a lot of bumps or that are not completely flat might be a slight problem. But so far, this is worth every penny spent.

The collector basket handle snapped on 2nd use. Had to tape it with electrical tape to hold. However haven’t used it since. Waste of time using this product instead of a Rake. Doesn’t collect leaves on bitumen driveway.