No bluetooth!? I'm out. How am I supposed to connect my Facebook, Google, banking info, home security to this device without wifi or bluetooth!!?? It's just a joke, kind of. I've been looking for something like this for years. Thank you very much for looking out for us old dudes! I appreciate your hard work and dedication!!
I have a similar sweeper that I inherited from my dad,and it is about 65 years old! I have picked up leaves with it occasionally,but I prefer using my battery mower with grass catcher attached these days,as the mower chops up the leaves,which takes fewer leaf lawn bags. I have to use those darned paper bags where I live,as the city no longer picks up plastic bags.
Look at it. Lots of large injection molded plastic pieces. Built to last longer and you don't have to use your back. You probably could make something similar for $50. Get a 3d printer, cad software, and make your own!
Ok. I just got mine... It is AMAZING! Omg, gow did i ever live without it before? We have so many trees and this will be a fame changer. Greetings from Eastern Canada.
I just got another brand of these and they are awesome! My neighbor has 3 trees in their front yard that drop leafs all year round. The mower just doesn't get rid of them like one of these can.
And if you do rake, use a PLASTIC SNOW SHOVEL to move piles across the lawn, works SUPER WELL and really confuses your neighbors who've never needed a snow shovel since you now live on the gulf coast in Mississippi and not in Chicago anymore. I have a decent sized property with a lot of trees on it. I was super lazy one season and let it accumulate, which was over 20 bags full of leaves. Why plastic and not aluminum? Since plastic won't dig into the ground as well and glides better on top of the grass.
That "free healthcare" kicking in. Wish my Canadian family had private options. My monthly private insurance price is nothing compared to what you guys are forced to pay in various ways. Hate seeing people have to deal with that.
I guess this is for keeping a tidy lawn in the summer. When the leaves actually fall I'll be emptying the basket every 5 steps forward. What I want is a purpose-built leaf mulcher. My lawn mower struggles with the density of leaves I get, maybe there's a more optimal design.
Just off the top of my head a good dedicated mulcher would be a riding lawn tractor made to have more smaller mulching blades compared to a mower and the motor would be sized and tuned for torque so it wouldn't bog down while chewing. After that having a good blower or even a screw driven system of discharging the leaves into a hopper would be needed to keep things moving. Either way you are likely looking at something costing nearly as much as a regular riding lawn mower.
The battery EGO lawn mower I have was a big step up for this purpose than my old gas powered mower. The high torque of the electric motor keeps it from bogging down.
We bought a lawn sweeper years ago, turned our 4 year old loose on the yard. He loved, we loved it, yard was clean… wore out the basket after two years.
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Ugh! Time to deal with those pesky leaves again! I use my lawn mower and bag all the chopped leaves. Between my three big pin oaks in my front yard, my next door neighbor with his equally large 3 pin oaks and all other neighbor leaves that happen to collect in my yard, I quickly get a deep carpet of leaves weekly.
Long time sub here. I actually purchased the Grounds Keeper II after seeing it for the first time on that video. I also was one the winners of one of your give away years back in September of 2019 with the 105 EX 20V Backpack Sprayer 🙏🏻👍🏻
I've used some Gardena products. The reel mower spindle replacement parts were only available through Canada. In my experience any rotating device will wrap the neighbor's weeder strings around any exposed areas. Twigs and branches always fall with any wind or weather. The new small green twigs are the worst for binding up my Fiskars reel mower. I use lightweight plastic rakes to manage the enormous qualities of leaves which I contend with. At the most the better quality ones available on Amazon from the UK last about two years as others have noted.
Might make sense in the shoulders of Fall...but dead in the middle of Fall when the leaves are coming down hard this thing would hardly put a dent in the amount of leaves coming down!
For smaller yards where you can push it manually over the whole lawn, look great. But I'll stick with my 50" Ohio Steel pull-behind sweeper for the acreage.
I'm actually in the market for a tow-behind version so I can "bag" my lawn before I dethatch and overseed it next week. The cost of a bagger for a riding mower is pretty steep for one-time use.
Great video and review. I have the Scott’s lawn sweeper. And it works much like the Gardena as you described. It seems like it might be a little wider than the Gardena. The problem I have with the Scott lawn sweeper, is that I’m a tall guy, and I have to bend over to reach the handle and keep it in the position where it will effectively pick up leaves. So my question to you is, are you a tall guy? And if not, do you think someone tall like me (6’4”) would have to bend over some to be able to use it? The Scott’s is very hard on my back.
Great question, avoiding back strain was one of our main development goals in Germany. Our Leaf Collector can easily be used by someone 6'4" tall. The bristle height would need to be adjusted accordingly!
Thanks for bringing this product to our attention. It’s a bit overpriced - I think $99 or less would be more appropriate, but the market will decide. I just purchased that Groundskeeper II rake today and found it to be excellent for removing stubborn patches of moss, better even than the Greenworks electric dethatcher, which I also purchased upon your recommendation. You always recommend tools that actually work and I really appreciate that!
I found an old craftsman one for sale on craigslist for 20 bucks so I said why not, I'll give it a shot. Lo and behold it actually works pretty well and is convenient because it's quiet and just requires you to walk around. That said, this is absolutely not worth $180.
We have large poplars (Russian poplar I think?) that drop branches with up to about 10 leaves in a clump. I found my town behind sweeper continually gets clogged and the branch portion all wrapped up and stops it from working. Any idea if this could be a little better at that?
Experts suggest its best to not do anything to fallen leaves. Just leave them. They are part of the natural ecosystem and provide bug shelter, worm shelter/food and will decompose into nutrients for the soil. Me on the other hand will run the mower over my lawn after all the leaves have fallen but I do not rake them because of the worm food and soil nutrients thing. I think raking removes free lawn food but mowing is something you're gonna do anyways and its easier than raking but makes the lawn look a little better.
@@rrb79I'm actually wrong in my assessment about mowing leaves but I'm probably not gonna change my ways because I have a dog and the 2 trees in my back yard cover over 50% of the grass (small yard). I did some quick digging and found that its the most ecologically friendly approach just to let ALL of the leaves fall and do nothing for the sake of the bugs and insects and the local ecology of your yard. Me, I'll just move over the leaves for the sake of my dog.
If your law was cut short (which you should do before aeration anyway), I would say let them dry for one day and I think these brushes would be able to pick them up. The brushes are quite thiuck. That is an interesting use for sure.
If they are freshly fallen, it will definitely scoop them up. But if they are embedded you would need to rake or dettahc, its pretty strong but it cant pull stuff from the soil
Looks nice. To pricey. Also the bag is too small. You be going back and forth many of time. Invest on a leaf vacuum bigger bag and less back and forth for 40 dollars more.
