Lawn sweeper / Leaf collector // Gardena leaf Collector review 

Hey mate, 100% agree, it really does help a lot and make the work a lot easier, very good point! Thanks for dropping by mate

Thanks man, appreciate it. Yeah, I need to invest in some petrol or battery driven stuff, I'm getting too much exercise with the stuff I have haha 😂

Hey Kell, thanks alot for the kind words, really appreciate it. I have to say, I actually considered the lawn sweeper a luxury thing, but after 2 seasons with it I really like it, makes it so easy to keep the lawn clean. Don't get a lot of leaves but loads of pine needles. As you say, I saw several articles this year where they recommended to leave everything on the lawn for the sake of the nutrients, but thatch build up and it will make the soil more acidic, also if it piles up it will kill the grass under it, so I am having a hard time to see how they justify leaving everything on there. I will continue to sweep it away :) thanks again mate.

Awesome mate, hope you enjoy it as much as I am :)

Thanks alot Matthew, glad you find value in it. Sadly our northern climate will put an end to lawn care for some time pretty soon.

Hey Mick, thanks! I honestly was thinking about getting a rotary mower to just pick up leaves and stuff, but then I came across this thing, works really well. I have tried it after scarifying and it does not work at all for that, the debris is just too heavy, so a normal mower would be better for that, so I might get one anyways or a leaf blower actually, anything but the normal rake 😁 Really glad you like the videos, makes my day mate!

Thanks a lot Eric, really appreciate the support man 🙏

Hey Petri, I know, I really like it, was surprised how well it worked. If anything can cut raking time, I'm going for it :D

Yes, I saw that one browsing Amazon, I think that one is even better, since it has more width and a bigger bag, but unfortunately not available in Sweden. If it were, I may have gone for that one instead. Thanks for watching Richard, and thanks for the kind words, really means a lot :)

Hey Mate, glad you found my channel and dropped a comment. I think you have your priorities just right, family always comes first :) I try not to get too technical about things, I really do think too many youtube videos just complicates things. As you say, you are keeping it to the basics and it works for you, if you would want to crank it up a notch you could add maybe top dress one year, scarifying another. No need to go nuts on the lawn, like myself or some others, you can have a decent lawn without doing all that, so good for you mate!

Cheers Sam, and I do like the fact that you don't make your channel too technical. Have a great year.

Hey Terry, yeah I would say that's is the best way of doing it actually, to get the nutrients back, if only I had a mower that could do that :)

Hey mate, thanks alot, glad you found it helpful. Good suggestion, completely forgot about it, I usually just empty it near the edge of my property, so it feels trivial to me, but may not be for others, so good point to actually show what to do with all that.

Hey Peter, thanks so much, appreciate it. I do agree that the container is too small, I have a lot of pine needles and two weeks ago I ran the collector and I had to empty that thing 3-4 times, just with pine needles, don't really get why they made it so small, as you say I don't have that much leaves, but I can imagine if you do you would have to stop and empty it all the time. Thanks again for the kind words and thanks for dropping by mate.

hahaha sounds like I do Gregory, if only someone had told me sooner! Would have saved me a lot of trouble :)

haha thanks, it does suck and takes so much time :D

Hey Matthew, for sure, my lawn usually doesn't get that much leaves, I mostly get pine needles. Wanted to try next year to find somewhere where I really can show how it does when there is much more to clean up. But I agree, in those cases the bagger would have driven me nuts, it is waaaay too small.

@matthew jonesWhat is it w/this "no fuel" business❔ What do you cut your grass with, one of thosepush mowers w/spiral blades⁉

@@prestonweitersjr.9460 yes, where applicable. Less noise, less smoke, less smell, more exercise.

Awesome dude, glad you found the video helpful!

I really dislike it ;)

Hey mate, thanks for dropping by. I have a lot of pine cones as well and as long as it hasn't really dug into the ground it does pick them up. But smaller ones that really quickly goes down under the grass it will not pick up. But all in all it does a great job and I really love how "tidy" the lawn looks after using it :)

haha you GET me dude! :)

Hey mate, many people said that a blower works great, never tried one to be honest, I don't even know a single person who has one haha, not that common in Sweden it seems, maybe I will borrow one an try it, see how it compares. Thanks for dropping by dude, appreciate it :)

Hey mate, awesome! Thanks a lot, definitely going to try that out, hope it works 🤙🏼😁

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And thank you for watching mate 🤙🏼😊

Hey, I agree, I would also like to try it on a lawn that is just full of leaves, never done that. my lawn usually gets covered mostly by pine needles, last week I emptied 3-4 bags of just pine needles from the lawn with the leaf collector. I am trying to find a leaf covered lawn to try it on, just haven't found one, at least not one where I know the people, don't want to be the weirdo with a camera asking random home owners :D

haha sounds like fun! For sure most things are usually older stuff trending again or slightly rebuilt or reshaped but essentially the same.

Hey Ray, thanks alot for watching, really appreciate it. I kinda like the gardena push mower, I think a cylinder mower gives such a great cut. So I'm pretty much saving up for a power driven reel mower at some point, really want an Allet Kensington,. Before I got all into lawn care I just used the robomower. Btw, I love Scotland, I go every year, even got married near Fort William, I consider Scotland my second home :)

Haha true mate true! I do so much in the yard so I don't mind if I find some tools that help along :)

hahah sure am Dwight 😂

Yeah, there you goI have a ZT mower & hitch up my Ohio Steel lawn sweeper. All I need to do is take my backpack leaf blower & get it all out in the open & 1-2-3❗I don't kill myself, got a lot of ground to cover. Those come in 2 basic sizes: 42" (22 cu. ft) & 50" (26 cu.). If you dump it @ the curb & the town scoops it up, you can't beat it.🏆🎰

Hey mate, not sure, can't really say if this one is better or worse than the ones with a brush, never tried one of those. Meanwhile this one actually works pretty well, I do agree about the width, not sure why they didn't make it wider or the bagger larger, just stupid if you ask me. But still it works for my small lawn. I think most lawns in europe are about this size, at least a majority of them, so maybe that's why they go for the smaller size, just a guess though.

I bought an inexpensive lawn sweeper for $130, because it was the only brand sold locally. It came with that comb-like design. I have to make a lot of passes to get all the leaves picked-up, and you have to set it to nearly drag on the ground to get adequate (at all) pickup for the small leaves we have. Dragging equates to a lot of effort to push. This device is better than raking, but I'm trading one kind of strain for another. I remember my parents (in the 1960's) having a sweeper that worked well and had brushes/bristles rather than this lousy plastic comb design. Plus the bag falls off intermittently from dragging on the ground! I'm going to investigate if that brush design is still manufactured.

Hey John, if they are covered by grass and really stuck, you would need a power rake to get to those I would say. But if they are just on top then the sweeper would work just fine. Only thing is that the power rake will stress the grass and it's much much more aggressive compared to the sweeper.

Hey Mate, some have said the same thing, I might actually get a leaf blower and see for myself. I think it's pretty ok to push around, but then again I only compare it to raking manually, never owned or even used a leaf blower.

Hey Amit, I bet, those things are awesome, it's so much easier than going around hand raking everything, no way I am doing that again :D

@@SamsLawn Totally agree with you. I am young and physically fit but raking is just extremely tiring and boring for me.

Hey John, I agree, that would be the best way to not waste all that good stuff from the leaves, alas I don't have a mower that can mulch, I only have a manual reel mower. If I had another mower, I might have just done that.

Because oak leaves don’t mulch

Hey mate, they sure should, actually thought about that too, I know the more expensive reel mowers come with a sweeper attachment, why not these home made cheaper dethatchers, doesn't seem it would be that expensive of an attachment to add to it. Good point mate.

Haha, now we're talking Wayne! Thank you very mööch!

Hey mate, for sure, if you have a lot of leaves then I really wouldn't recommend this one, then you are better off blowing it or mulching it, would be way faster. Imagine emptying the tiny bag on this thing if you have A LOT of leaves, would drive you crazy. But for smaller lawns with less debris it works just fine. Thanks for watching Reverend :)

Hey mate, probably it would be better but for a small lawn like mine, it seems a bit too much. Think this works fine on lawns this size, if you would have a bigger lawn, then for sure riding mower would be better.

Hey Alex, for sure, if you have a bigger lawn then this thing would drive you crazy, mostly because of the small bagger, it's actually so stupid that it is made for picking up leaves but the bagger is super small. But for my yard which is small and I mostly get pine needles, it works great. Otherwise I agree it would be better to just mulch it.

Hey mate, yes I have been made aware of that :) But a lot of things are just recycled ideas in a new package or it may be trending again, same with clothes or music or movies. Very rarely does an original idea come up, but I still think it's useful, even now :)

I agree, it's harder than people think to push these things around :)

Thanks for the tip Wayne, definitely going to do that, looks like an awesome solution! Thanks for that dude!

haha that's how it starts! Just this ONE thing, next thing you know, the shed is full of gear and lawn care stuff! :) As long as you enjoy it, go for it mate! :)

haha, buy him a leaf collector this black friday sale, just as a hint ;)

Hey Paul, hmm not sure, never tried it, but I would imagine it would work as long as they are not pushed down into the lawn, if they are just laying loosely on the lawn it would probably go into the collector, but if they have been on there for a while and dug themselves in I think it would be hard.

Corners are fine as long as you don't have some kind of edging that gets in the way, I just put in some stone edges, which makes me have to manually rake the edges 🤦‍♂

Thanks for watching man, appreciate it 🙏

Hey mate, I actually tried it in the video where I kill off my lawn. But in short: the "combs" on the Gardena are just too weak to handle that amount of material unfortunately . You will need to rake off the worst by hand. If I were to get one for the purpose of cleanups after scarifying, then a more powerful one with a brush instead of these combs would be better I think.

Hey Joseph, took a look at one of those, it sure does look awesome, that catcher box seems to be way better than the one on the Gardena.

Thanks David 😁🤘🏼

For bigger lawns or if you have a lot of leaves I would say that is a much faster way to go.

Hey Francesco, I was actually a bit worried about that too, but so far it does work, only if you haven't stepped on the leaves and really stuck them to the ground, but if they are wet and just laying on the grass, it will pick it up, no problem.

Hey, not sure actually, never tried it for cores. If I were to guess I would think you can get some of them out, but if the "rakes" get too many cores at once it might be too heavy. I will try it when I do core aeration, curious myself since getting all those "turds" off take forever :D

Well, if I compare to the Gardena manual reel mower, it works 10 times better, but then again, that grass catcher is one of the worst ones I have seen. Otherwise it's pretty similar I would say, maybe the average mower works slightly better.

Hey Preston, for sure, that would make it easier, but I only have just over 2000 sqf, seems a bit too much for that 😅

@@SamsLawn Ahhh, ok.I have 10K sq. ft. of ground to cover.

Thanks Leon, appreciate it man. I think you can use it on both, and apparently on concrete too! I'm superglad I got that thing.

Hey Matthew, a lot of people actually said the same thing, had no idea this was already an old "invention", but I guess most things are remakes or stuff starts to trend again. Good thing you are still using your old one, I also tend to use things as long as they run and work, don't see a need of changing things out just for the sake of changing :)

Hey Richard, wow, that's a huge price difference, I almost don't think it's worth the price we have, for what it does, but 300 is crazy, hopefully the prices go down now that Gardena set up shop in NA.

We get a lot of acorns too on our lawn, it will pick up the smaller ones that are on top of the grass. If they have been pushed down into the lawn then it won't. So I wouldn't say it's the best at picking them up unfortunately.

Yeah really is, that's why I placed this one in the luxury item list, really is too expensive over here, but if you really really don't like raking then its worth every penny :) But a really good purchase, you are going to love it, makes it so easy.

Hey mate, good question, this particular one wouldn't be able to I think, it's just too weak, it struggled even taking upp debris after scarifying. But a sweeper with a brush might, that would be interesting to see actually.

Hey Dave, hmm not sure, maybe amazon Australia ships to Thailand? They have it at least.

Hey Clay, I would say it does pick up mulch that gets on to the lawn, but if you have larger pieces and A LOT then maybe it would struggle a bit.

haha tack Adam ;)

It does, works great if you want to do it before mowing to get all the grass that is laid down, or to remove worm casts :)

@@SamsLawn Thank you, what the problem with worm castings?

@@mikeo8890 when you step on them the dirt they popped up will cover the grass and it will die off underneath so it's always nice to just go over it with a rake. But we are into super nerd territory here, your lawn will be just fine if you don't do anything about it :D

haha, I ask myself that question every fall Bruce 😂

Thanks for the tip Agent 007, will take into consideration ;)

hahaha great comment! I actually 100% agree with you, love being outdoors and especially in the lawn, it's just that raking and me don't go well together. I have actually even bought gloves with extra protection around those areas but still it chafes for some reason. Maybe I am doing it wrong :) My meditation is usually going around pulling weeds, I can get stuck doing it for hours, not sure why but it really is soothing for some reason :)

@@SamsLawn ❤ In any case, you have an awesome lawn (way better than mine, LOL), so keep on keeping on and babying those darling little hands!

Hey Dustin, sure that would be a way of doing it, especially if you could mulch it, that would be the best thing, get the nutrients back, but I don't own a regular mower, I only have a manual reel mower and it does pick up some of the leaves but not even close to getting all.

Hey Sandra, gissar på att du är svensk så jag skriver på svenska ;) annars får du säga till så skriver jag på Engelska framöver :) Tror faktiskt inte det finns ett svenskt ord för det, Vet att Stihl, Makita och Husqvarna kallar sina modeller med mulching för "bioclip" eller "bioklippare" medan Stiga säger "multiclip", tror inte det finns något annat ord för det. Det är inte någon separat modul eller liknande utan en funktion klipparen har för att suga upp gräset och klippa det flera gånger om innan den släpper ner den igen för att fungera som gödning. Då suger den inte upp gräset och lägger i en uppsamlare utan "spottar" tillbaka den. Så det är bara att gräsklipparen har det valet, så inget extra man behöver sätta på klipparen eller något sånt :) Finns massa modeller som har det, bara att kolla efter just ordet "bioclip" eller mulching på klipparen.

Hey John, probably could, but I imagine that it would be harder to get the leaves where you want them, or blowing up mulch from the beds, or even being able to blow away all the wet pine needles. But I've never tried it, think this is a great way and no power involved, also a good thing in my book.

If only! haha I think I would like it in Arizona actually, but there you would probably have other issues, the issues never stop :D

No I have purchased 5acres in clare michigan my last home had 30 9" dia trunks maples oaks hickory a few walnuts we have leaves but I made wood area and blow or dump them in the woods and if I can use my snapper lawn mower I chop some up about 3'deep in my garden you want manicure lawn I cut mine with a triplex Locke reel mower maybe you should look for a gas powered parker walk behind sweeper or a towbehind one with a tractor then just blow away from the hard to reach and ride by and sweep or a vacuum trailer and suck them leaves up and shreds then up

Haha I wish I had the energy to do that, too lazy, this works great though

Thanks mate. I know I do talk a lot 😂 I try to think about it EVERY video I make and I always end up still talking too much, guess I am just a talker :)

hahaha If only Andrew, I really do need bigger doors, then I don't need to measure things anymore 😅

Hey Margo, well there aren't really any details in the unboxing, just a couple of bars and screws, not much to show. I do like to keep it almost like a vlog and that's the style I like so if that doesn't suit you then you are welcome to check out other channels. best thing about videos, you don't have to watch them if you don't like them.

@@SamsLawn May be for you, it is easy, luck you but if you read the reviews most people complain about putting together, I was looking for unboxing video, and your video came in the top, and I was waiting to see how to put it together and got frustrated, but still don't understand the point of the video. In the future if I look for entertainment, I will watch your video, but for unboxing I will look else where, and by the way the company has sucky instruction also, not your fault :)

Ahhh now I understand what you mean. The point of the video was to review the product itself and see how well it actually picks up leaves, pine needles debris, does it work, pros & cons. It was never meant to be an unboxing video or how to assemble. In retrospect I definitely could have shown how to assemble it too, but since I just wanted to show how it works I never thought about the assembly, it was only meant to be a review video.

@@SamsLawn Thank you, comprehensive UNBOXING videos are so valuable and needed, most of us have hard time reading the instructions and someone like yourself who find it easy can give great unboxing videos, it took me 2 days to figure it out, and I actually cried from frustration, all fairness to you didn't put UNBOXING in the title, but this collector did not have any good video for unboxing and the company put some video show how well it work, thank you for your reply, and I am a subscriber now :)

@@m27238 I agree, most instructions are terrible, almost as if the companies never tried to follow them themselves. So from that perspective I should definitely have done the assembly part. I will try to remember that for the next product review :) By the way, if you ever come across something like that again, don't get frustrated, just send me a message and I can try to help as best as I can, always willing to help if I am able. Thanks a lot for the sub, appreciate it :)

Hey Donald, weird thing is that I do use gloves and i still get them, I even got gloves with extra protective fabric around that area and I still got them, must be doing it wrong :D

Good thing you can skip ahead and don't have to listen to the bs then ;)

Haha yeah I don't have that much leaves, at least not when I made the video, that's the problem with filming everything all the time, sometimes you have to do it early to be able to edit and do everything before the leaves have actually fallen down. But I do have alot of pine needles, just released a reel on IG showing that, i filled 3 full bags on the leaf collector just with pine needles.

@@SamsLawn Lol, yeah I am just messing around. Thanks for the video(s) regardless.

@@gary_neilson1896 haha sure thing mate, appreciate you dropping by :)

I get my son to pick it up? Easy 😂

Ok mate, great feedback 👍🏼

haha yeah, I have a tendency to repeat myself, trying to keep that in mind when recording.

Hey mate, not terrible at all actually, I would say it's way to expensive for what it does, but it does not destroy the grass, it actually works pretty well I would say.

@@SamsLawn From all the grass in the bag, it seems like it tears your grass. This is bad for it. The only scenario where I could see it being OK is if you raked with the lawn long, then mow after.

@@BigBrotherIsTooBig I mowed the lawn just before so that's just clippings that the godawfull grass catcher from the Gardena mower didn't catch. But I'm not here to change anyone's mind, it's just to give a review and my opinion, I can only say I haven't experienced it tearing any grass.

@@SamsLawn Thank you for clarifying

Hey Tim, actually was looking for one of those just before I got the leaf collector, they look pretty awesome, maybe I get one anyways, since I still do use the rake from time to time, and as you saw, it's time to replace it :) thanks for the tip!

Hey Paul, yeah if you are anything like me and hate raking and have a lot of pine needles, then it's really worth the money, at least if around that $100 mark or so.