Yardworks 12A Leaf Blower/Vacuum with Leaf Collection System

Does a good job of blowing leaves into piles and vacuuming them . Amazing reduction of leaves paper bag easily held equivalent of 2 large leaf bags, and it's not yet full

après une utilisation, retourné, sa aspire pas et sa souffle pas les feuille dans mon paillis de roche. très désappointé de la performance

1. It can vacuum or blow with the flip of a switch. ***** 2. It does mulch the leaves well, minimizing emptying the cloth bag. ***** 3. Value of device for price especially when on sale. ***** 4. Comfort, weight and ease of use ***** 5. Paper bag option **** 5a. Bag easily falls off hose 5b. Hose untwists from blower. 5c. Bags are expensive but mulching will save 3 regular recycling bags ***** 5d. Use of this option is limited to mulching a pile of leaves, no movement. *** 6. Blow and vacuum CFS not as great as my old unit but still acceptable considering its capability and cost. **** 7. Very difficult to remove cloth bag for empting. 8. Wheel at bottom of device, not useful. Keeps device too high off the ground and cannot do side to side motion. 9. Two speed switch has little use in my applications, so not rated. Though I have criticisms, I still highly recommend this unit.

Bought my second one recently and am disappointed with some of the design changes. Most annoying is that the bag (black) does not stay attached at the outward support. Seems the plastic clip should be on top rather than on the end of the bag. Will only stay attached when bag is approximately half full and continuously comes loose while in blowing mode; next is the short shoulder strap. I am 6' but still have to bend/stoop to suck up leaves when strap is fully extended. Also they have provided a metal clip and port for it on the handle. Unfortunately in most positions the clip catches the on/off switch turning off the machine. This clip is unnecessary in my view, and is positioned on the strap in such a way as to make it difficult not to use it. Power is less than past models and while the addition of the little wheel at the end of the tube makes straight-on vacc of hard surface easier it does little to help the random, side / side motion normally used to clear a lawn. Only reason I'm keeping this one is the easy-to-use lever to switch from vacc / blow which is not found on most other available brands. I'd rate this a 2/5 and am being generous.

J'ai beaucoup d'arbres sur mon terrain dont presque une dizaine d'érables matures. J'ai acheté ce souffleur-aspirateur essentiellement pour la fonction aspirateur. Je trouvais génial le principe d'utiliser des sacs jetables. Je pensais qu'avec ça, le ramassage de feuilles serait beaucoup plus aisé. J'ai rapidement déchanté.... Côté souffleur, c'est acceptable, bien que jamais la vitesse n'a atteint le 130mi-hr. Mais comme j'ai un souffleur à essence, je m'en foutais un peu. Mais quand j'ai voulu aspirer les feuilles.... un petit aspirateur Dirt-Devil aspire plus que ça ! Ça m'a pris une demi-heure de peine et de misère afin de remplir un seul sac ! Je me suis vite rendu compte que remplir des sacs à poubelle à la main va beaucoup plus vite que cet aspirateur... Je l'ai retourné au magasin extrêmement déçu, j'aurais voulu que ça fonctionne. Peut-être est-ce conçu pour les tout petits terrains qui n'ont qu'un petit arbre dessus, et encore. Une machine qui part d'une bonne idée mais qui n'a pas le 10e de la puissance nécessaire pour faire ce qu'elle est supposée faire. Évitez ce produit à moins de vouloir être déçu...