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.
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.
@L..V.. I ran over a bunch of mid sized pine cones and some fly away, some are picked up. Those brushes don't mind them at all, they are bendy and flexible when they hit something "heavier". Overall, I would not consider this tool to pickup acorns or deep poop, but this device certainly wont mind them. It will probably be easier to see those (acorn and poop) after one pass with this leaf collector.
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!
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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 you get tired from raking leaves, it suggests you're mentally and\or physically weak, and using a machine like the one advertised here will only increase your weakness.
Maybe he lives in an HOA neighborhood where its mandatory to have a pristine lawn. My dad doesn't live in a HOS but is obsessed with having a pristine lawn except he doesn't rake his leaves, he just uses the mower bag up till his final leaf falling of the season then he mulches it with the mower.
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Yes you are right, great tool. Mine picks up large magnolia leaves no problem. Great review
@@thermionicdude2044 Awesome! :D
@@SilverCymbal best purchase of 2024 for me! Awesome 😎
Wow your sub count really BLEW UP! I remember when it was maybe 30k......dang well done on all your consistent hard work my friend.
Very nice of you to say. I am pleased folks still enjoy the videos. I have a lot of fun making them too
Yea what happen😂
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!!
Would love to see how well this works on other types of yard debris - things like pine needles, pine cones, acorns, pebbles, sticks, etc.
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.
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.
Camera is too close to see if it actually gets the leaves or leaves most of them
@@chiquita683 oh it works! and very well!
Your comment is making me lean towards getting one. Any idea how this works on acorns and hidden deer poop?
@L..V.. I ran over a bunch of mid sized pine cones and some fly away, some are picked up. Those brushes don't mind them at all, they are bendy and flexible when they hit something "heavier". Overall, I would not consider this tool to pickup acorns or deep poop, but this device certainly wont mind them. It will probably be easier to see those (acorn and poop) after one pass with this leaf collector.
@@patrickbuswell Thanks so much for getting back to me. This sounds like a great investment - getting one asap.
If you have a couple 'young bucks' around the house... that's their job.
I got one of these leaf collectors once they went to college/moved out.
Looks like a nice machine, $180 seems a bit too expensive for a plastic tool.
I agree, assumed it be like $50, which is reasonable for plastic and what this thing does. was shocked at $180
I think you are being overly reductive
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!
Gardena generally makes their plastic stuff really sturdy
Seems sturdy enough. No corrosion and lightweight to push.
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Thanks!
Thank you!
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Wow, I remember using one of those in our yard when I was a teenager, 50 years ago!
Will it pick up acorns? I have 2 pin oaks that drop hundreds of acorns.
I don't rake leaves anymore, I just mulch them into my lawn with normal mowing.
Your lawn's biome thanks you
I love all the tips on this channel but this is honestly the way to go. Just mulch them
@@boogaboogaboogaablenot too much isn’t
Same
Exactly… like nature for millennia
Some of my best memories are sitting in my dad's lawn sweeper in the fall
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 🙏🏻👍🏻
Of course, I might be getting told but I still remember. Glad to have you here.
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.
I already have a rear bag lawn mower. That mower has a larger capacity and it mowes the grass too.
I brought one of these a few years back, one of the best gardens tools in my shed. The bonus is no fuel or battery to mess with 👍
Glad you like it! :)
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.
The snow shovel is great to get them in bag when you're raking by yourself.
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$387.48 in Canada. Welcome to affordable Canada...the true north strong and free!!
And salaries less than a half
And your hospitals have "not worth treating" kill lists. Not blaming the fine Canadian people, but for f's sake...
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.
@@Sandlin22 Cheers and best wishes to your family
Hi there, it's back to $249.99 , we fixed that with Amazon! It's also available at Home Depot stores.
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.
Try this with a yard full of large trees. I’d feel like Sisyphus because there would be more leaves on the ground just before I finish!
Do you know if it will pick up pine cones or pine needles?
It does!
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.
What's your opinion on pine needles....would this work you think.....
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.
Have you tried using this on wet grass? I'm curious how well it works under those conditions. Thanks for another great product review.
Yes. I did get to try it on wet grass and it surprised me as it does work very well. Much better than I had expected.
What would you recommend instead of tenacity weed killer. For killing weeds in a lawn. It is band in Australia. Cheers Michael
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!
How does it do with turf and smaller leaves?
Would this device work well to pick up the thatch after dethatching?
Yes definitely
I bag my leaves as I mow. It's easier that way for me. It's a lot of trees around.
Would this work to pick up maple tree helicopters or pear tree shells left by squirrels in the fall?
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!
We sold out completely last fall!
Tow-behind lawn sweeper will be a better choice for anyone with a larger yard and a riding lawnmower. A push sweeper is for smaller areas.
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!
Do you think it would pick up dead grass after power raking / scarifying?
Another great find, thanks!!
Glad you like it :)
I bought a leaf blower years ago and never looked back.
How does this unit perform with sticks/small branches? I seem to have more of those every autumn than leaves on our gravel lot.
Very very well. If they are pressed into the dirt it can’t get them but if they are in or on the grass it definitely combs them out.
Does this thing pick up larger pine needles?
Could this be used on Artificial Turf lawns as well?
I wonder how well it would do after dethatch/scarify from something like the Sun Joe
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.
Looks interesting. I like to use my HRX 217 with the Power Rake blade
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.
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?
Do you know if this will also pick up core aeration plugs?
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.
Will this pickup acorns?
How do you get in corners with that thing? You still have to rake the leaves that blow in tight spots!
Great idea for those that collect their leaves. I just run my lawn tractor over them and mulch leaves into the lawn.
Can you link that orange bin you showed? That looked handy!
How does it do with pine needles? Those things are a bear to rake up.
Are the bristles stiff enough to pick up sweet gum balls or pecans?
I definitely think so. I had no issue picking up sticks and even some trash that was left around.
Awesome and thank you for the reply!
Thank you ORDERED!
What happens if it is dog poop in the yard? Does it clean it or spread it into the lawn?
Did you try it on grass clippings?
Yes, and even small bracnhes all get picked up very well. As its not quite brush bristles they do a better job on fine items
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.
NO BLUTOOTH!
im sold!
Will it pickup pine needles?
Yes!
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.
In Our area in Hungary leaves are almost always wet on the ground.. i wonder if it picks it up easily when its wet
Works best with dry leaves!
how does it handle acorns?
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
Will it work on gravel
Yes, I used it later in the video on gravel, you have to adjust it but I worked very well on large stuff
Will it pick up cores after aeration?
Too heavy unfortunately.
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.
We do the same! It's funny how the more ecologically correct approach is also the more frugal one.
@@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.
Brushes would probably wear out fast on concrete. But like you said, they are replaceable.
I lost both my hige trees in the last TX storm so no leave issues for me anymore 😢
If that picks up acorns as well as it does leaves I may have to invest in one
It totally does!
Yardworks in Canada sells one but half the cost
Will it pick up balls from Sweet Gum trees?
I have the same question.
I'm curious if it would pickup dog poop?
Mastiff or Chihuahua?
Lol, well I'm curious about all sizes honestly.
Any luck with acorns?
It will pick up Acorns too!
I have one of these. I found the basket too small, and it fills too quickly
Unbe-leaf-ably easy! 🍂🍂😄
I wonder if there’s another similar tool you could use to do this very job that all of us with lawns already own… maybe… hmmm something that… mows?
Just found a 70's version of this in a shed. Just mow them in or leaf blower lol
Just leave the leaves to decompose naturally. Same thing when i mow the lawn.
If you get tired from raking leaves, it suggests you're mentally and\or physically weak, and using a machine like the one advertised here will only increase your weakness.
Can this pick up acorns?…
Yes!
After I heard $179 I will stick to my blower
I wonder how well this would work picking up the remains of dethatching. That's a nasty, back breaking job.
Would be great if double the width.
I have thick, heavy leaves from a Magnolia tree. I haven't found anything that makes it easy to pickup those things. A lawn mower won't pick them up.
"There's no motor, no batteries, no Bluetooth." I'M SOLD 😅
And your neighbors will love you!
0:33 "No motor, no battery, no bluetooth"
What about a subscription service though!!!
You know Louis Rossman would buy it but only with a monthly service fee! 🤣
@@SilverCymbal And then complain about right to repair and how you have to take this to an authorized repair shop.
Should be electric robot for that job
I would have to empty that little basket about 1500 times with my leaf mass.
Hey Chris. Robin from Tmist. Been a few years. Can i pick your brain about my grass?
Just mulch your leaves into the lawn with your mower.
Hmm... 🤔
There must be a robot collector with such attachment.
The only thing is how to automatically emptying this bag.
I don’t rake them, the worms take them if left. No one rakes them in the forest and we are not up to our neck in leaves.
I had one and it FAILED completely. They only work if your lawn is cut extremely short before the leaves land on it.
Can't believe this thing is Soo cheap!!
Why not just use y our mower to bag them? Most people already have that if they have a lawn.
I’ll be moving several schoolbus-sized piles of leaves in the next two months. This wouldn’t help me. 😭
Or you could leave them and not kill beneficial insects. What’s with this fixation with having a pristine lawn?
Lighten up. You can put the collected leaves somewhere on your property and leave them…this isn’t crushing/breaking the leaf litter.
@@wendymontie5660 welcome to the internet: where people have opinions you don’t agree with.
Maybe he lives in an HOA neighborhood where its mandatory to have a pristine lawn. My dad doesn't live in a HOS but is obsessed with having a pristine lawn except he doesn't rake his leaves, he just uses the mower bag up till his final leaf falling of the season then he mulches it with the mower.
Please find me something that can lift out acorns from my lawn
just leave the leaves on the grass as nature intended.