WORX WG430 13 Amp Foldable Bladeless Electric Leaf Mulcher w/Landscaping 26-Gallon Collapsible Yard Waste Bag/Leaf Bin

The product does a fine job of mulching leaves and even very small twigs. Anything big enough to be called a stick will greatly reduce the life of the trimmer string, so be very careful about what goes in. To its credit, it is easy to change the trimmer string, but you can go through them quickly if you're not careful, and they are 0.90 diameter, which I have found is relatively hard to find , 0.8 and 0.95 being much more common.If you stand in the obvious place to feed leaves into it, you'll quickly clog the very small air intake from dropped leaves and bits of flying mulch, so it pays t stand off to the side half way between the air intake and exhaust, but you still have to pay attention to whether it has become blocked.The noise level is not too bad, but you are only a few inches away and you'll be there for probably an hour or more if you have any significant amount of leaves. If you don't use earplugs or some other hearing protection, you will definitely regret it someday fairly soon, and in any case your ears will fill with leaf dust right away, so be smart and use something to plug and/or cover your ears. I use a couple of those large plastic leaf scoops on my hands to pick up fairly large gobs of leaves for feeding the mulcher. It works very well and you can process a lot of leaves fairly quickly, but a really big pile still takes 20 - 30 minutes to mulch. However, it is MUCH faster to mulch them than it is to try to pack them tightly into trash bags or barrels, and far, far less effort. The worst part is the hundreds and hundreds of times you have to bend over to grab the leaves. It helps to rake them often into as high a pile as possible. A foot makes a big difference when you're bending over.If the leaves are dry, there will be a LOT of leaf dust in the air, and you REALLY need to wear a filter mask and goggles. If the leaves are a bit damp, it still mulches them without a problem and keeps the dust down pretty well. There does not appear to be any way to clean or replace anything like an air filter, unlike other similar machines The motor is strong and does not slow much when mulching even a large wad of dry or damp leaves, so you can feed it fairly quickly - about as fast as you can check the leaves for sticks.The supporting legs are well made and easy to assemble, but are quite short and it seems to me that they would hold only a small lawn bag, which would fill very quickly. I was unable to stuff a collapsible fabric lawn bag (approx 30 gal.) inside the legs at at all and it's way too short for all but the smallest trash can.In my town, we cannot use lawn bags for our leaves, so I have a number of larger rectangular trash barrels like the BlueHawk 32-Gallon Black Plastic Wheeled Trash Can from Lowes and the Blue Hawk 45-Gallon Black Plastic Wheeled Trash Can from Lowes for the leaves and mulch. Filling trash bags with mulch only to lift and empty them into the cans was not an appealing proposition.I was able to make a jig to go on top of the trash cans which holds the mulcher securely and lets me mulch directly into the trash cans. I used a 2'x2' piece of plywood with a large circle cut from it (using the mulcher's legs to get the size of the circle right) and a couple more smaller venting holes , with a few small pieces of wood screwed into it to keep it from sliding around on the top of the cans.I have found that by stopping the mulcher every 25-30 scoops and tamping the mulch down just a bit with a length of 2x2 just to get the air out and de-fluff the mulch, I can get easily twice as much mulch into a barrel. It also gives me a chance to clear the air intake and breath some cleaner air for 30 seconds or so. I can tamp through the vent holes to a useful degree, but it works better to lift the mulcher out of its hole and slide it off to the side a few inches to get better access for tamping down the whole barrel.The 11:1 mulch ratio is either a marketing dream, or refers to crispy dry leaves which have never been stepped on, raked, piled, or stuffed into a bag or barrel. Unless you have an unlimited number of barrels or bags to hold your leaves, without a mulcher you naturally stuff, stomp, and crush your raked leaves as you fill barrels or bags with your raked leaves. There's no way that you'll mulch 11 of those bags into 1 bag of mulch, but you might get 5:1 on a good day.I have kept careful track (partly because I want to stop at a regular interval for tamping) and the amount of leaves that can be packed (not dropped) unmulched into the smaller 32 gallon can equals 25 decent scoops of leaves (that is, it takes 25 scoops to empty a packed can into the mulcher). Four of those packed cans , or 100 scoops from a pile can be mulched into the same 32 gallon can, so that is a 4:1 ratio of packed leaves to mulched leaves. It may not sound like it, but that is a LOT of leaves. Quite a large pile will fit into a single barrel.Surprisingly, with some extra tamping, I can get 200 scoops ( or 2 32 gallon barrels) mulched into the larger 45 gallon barrel, which makes no sense if the sizes are at all accurate, but I've done it many times.At the end of the season, it does quickly snap apart and re-nest into a very small space so I like that I don't have yet another huge machine to store.So, it's dustier than I would like it to be, noisier than I would like it to be, and I had to make my own jig in order to reasonably process the mountains of leaves that I deal with in a season, but it does work well and I don't see how it could be done much better. I am well satisfied.

This is kind of a weed-whacker in a bowl, and you need to realize that it can only do so much. Before buying this or anything else described as a leaf-mulcher, please concentrate on the fact that it works best on LEAVES. Not little branches, not sticks, not chunks of bark, or little stones... but leaves. Anything else you toss into the bowl will shorten the life of your plastic cutting line inside. Speaking of the line (and loads of other reviewers gripe about the fragility of the line that comes with it), it truly doesn't last all that long... yet, I tried 1/8" coated aircraft cable and .095 cutting line as well and they didn't last long either. So just resolve to yourself that you'll be changing it on a regular basis. Thankfully, it's is easy to change and I'm sticking with the .095 plastic stuff as it lasts a hair longer (btw, I did not have to drill out anything as one reviewer did, it slipped in the plastic holder just fine).Other things: You're going to be happiest if you just want to reduce the amount of bags you have to use. This really does a great job reducing the leaves so that quite a big pile can fit in one bag. I happen to be one of those "waste not, want not" guys so I was all jazzed about raking up my leaves, turning them into instant mulch, and saving myself $50 from buying it. Well...There are trees all around my yard and they not only bless me with their leaves but also with little sticks. Those sticks have to be picked out as well as possible, although invariably some get in the hopper. The sticks tear up the line, and then the latter half of the leaves don't end up as nicely chopped as the former. So, I change the line and carefully rechop everything to make sure the mulch looks like mulch and not the leaves that I just spent so much time raking up. It ends up being more work than I thought, but it finally looks pretty good and from what I hear, the leaves have a lot of nutrients in them as well.Finally, it is dusty! Wear a respirator, ear protection, and some sort of eye protection because it will throw stuff back at you. I like the fact that it's really light-weight and holds a big trash bag beautifully. So, if I do my job great, this thing does its job great. Keep your expectations moderate to moderate-low and you'll be happy.

Se acabaron las hojas. Ahora a triturarlas

Does a great job for garden mulch

We ordered gardening tool, but the supplied item was not fit for the EU market at all. We sent it back according to seller's instructions, but no further communication, action, or return of the finds spend on the item and the cost of sending back.

ペーパーログブリケット（紙薪）を大量に成形するための、その材料となる新聞紙パルプを（いちいち手で紙を裂いてられないので）量産する道具として購入。実は前もってプラ製60L植木鉢にナイロンコード草刈機を突っ込んで実験してみたのですが、飛び散った新聞紙片を拾うのが大変で、バキュームブロワで集めるとブロワがすぐ詰まる（ちょっとコツがいる）ことも判明したためお高いですが思い切って買ってしまいました。初めての大型海外家電ですが、日本の方のレビューがあったので電源のことは気にせずにポチった後で、120V13Aが定格なんだから普通のコンセント（100V1500W）だとまずいんじゃないか？と心配になり、他にも買い足して以下の構成に：コンセント→電動工具用延長コード→Yazawaブレーカー付きタップ1500W→日章工業アップ(100V→120V)トランス1500W→電力計→Panasonic延長コード→WG430（本機）パナの延長コードは、本機のプラグが非対称Aプラグだったのでこれを挿せるソケットでたまたま家にあったのがこれだったというだけです。初めに数分だけ100Vを直接本機に通電してスイッチONしてみましたが問題なく動くようでした（汗）。でもせっかくアップトランスを買ったので上の構成にして、まずスイッチOFF状態の電力計表示が最初の写真。続いて無負荷（ナイロンコードの空回り）でスイッチON状態が次の写真。電流値が定格より低いのは当たり前ですが電圧も低くなっている理由は私にはわかりません（大汗）。で、目的の新聞紙を軽く丸めて投入すると、紙を砕いている一瞬は1000Wを超えているようですが電力計の表示が追随せず正確なところはわかりません（オシロスコープは持っていません）。でもブレーカーが作動しないので1500W以下なんでしょう。20分ほど連続稼働させた後、トランスはほんのり暖かいかな？程度、新聞紙は写真のように紙パッキンほど細かくはなっていませんがパルプ化の準備としては十分です。草刈機の実験では紙片がほぼ全て植木鉢の外に飛び出してしまったので、それに比べれば上出来ではあるのですが、それでも作業後本機の周りは紙片だらけですしON/OFFスイッチの周辺にある（恐らくモータ空冷のための）エアインテークも紙片と紙の粉で詰まりまくりですので掃除は必須です（それで台所の排水口ネットをかぶせてみたのが最後の写真。結構効果あり（笑））。音はうるさい（住宅地では苦情がくるかも）のでイヤマフ（安いので十分です）をした方が耳が遠くなる心配がないです。ナイロンコードは草刈機用の2.4mm径ので交換できます。長すぎるナイロンコードを切るカッターがついていますが私は取り外しました。本来用途の落ち葉シュレッダーとしては本場米国のyoutube動画が組み立て収納も含め見きれないほどある（そしてどの動画の内容も大差ない）のでそちらをご覧下さい。モータの過熱故障を気にしているようなものは探した限りでは見つけられませんでした。でも湿った落ち葉を投入などすると1500Wを超えることもあると思うので、自分は当分試すつもりはないです。小枝なども含む乾いた落ち葉の場合ですと、防護メガネと粉塵マスク、粉だらけになっても良い作業着も必要ですしなかなか物入りな機械です。

I love this little machine, cuts down all the yard work and saves space and time. i have a few trees in the back that drop alot of leaves and this has helped me clean up so fast. its loud but gets the job done in half the time. it comes with a little basket to catch all the mulch which is great, the top is a large hole and sometimes branches fly out, (Should have come with a smaller lid to prevent that).All in all does what it is ment to do!