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.
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53 Gallons of Leaves per Minute
That’s right, this bladeless mulcher can chop up a lot of leaves! Blow or rake up all the leaves in your yard and stuff them into the mulcher.
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11:1 Mulching Ratio
Turn 11 bags of leaves or debris into just 1 bag. This mulcher features the Flex-a-Line system, which uses heavy-duty string trimmer line to chop leaves instead of dangerous blades.
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Tool-free Assembly
It’s easy and quick to put together, and it’s just as easy to take apart and store for the offseason. Each of the parts nest into one another, so they take up hardly any space on a shelf.
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This patented tech significantly reduces the dust that is typically generated during the mulching process by utilizing an external air intake and exhaust system.
Drag Fewer Bags to the Curb
Turn 11 bags of leaves, twigs, or debris into just 1 bag. You can take acres worth of leaves and reduce them into a much more manageable task. Then you only have a couple of bags to dispose of. Or you can reuse that mulch in gardens and flower beds.
Makes Yard Work Easy
Standard plastic yard work bags or reusable paper bags slide right over the stand, the mulcher is placed on top, and the funnel locks into place. All you need to do is start feeding leaves through the top into the Flex-a-Line system that chops them up into 1/11th of their size.
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This is my husband's review: >>>>>>>>>First, I'm describing how I use this shredder. Your use may or may not be the same. Our lot has 13 mature trees within about 1/8 of an acre. As you can see from the pictures, there are lots of leaves.The setup was effortless. The manual says you have to align the white dots - you do. Picture attached.You will see a picture of the red power button. The little slots are the air intake. I use my blower once or twice to remove all the leaf dust from the intake.There is a metal tab inside for the trimmer line cutting. I noticed that there was a place for it slightly outside the circle. I moved it from where it was and gained maybe 3/8", giving me that much more cutting line. Maybe there isn't much difference, but hey, why not? See the photo with my hand showing where it was out of the box and where I moved it.Speaking of cutting lines, I bought some .095 square line from Oregon thinking square might shred better. It does but only a very little. Being square it is VERY difficult to feed into the cutting spools. The red trimmer line that came with it is extremely easy to feed. Once I finish my square trimmer line, I'll just order more of the pre-cut red line.As near as I can figure, it shreds leaves at about 6 or 7 bags to 1. I can't complain about that.Will it shred wet leaves? Yes - just not as well as dry. Does it shred small sticks? No - they just fall through the slots in the bottom of the bowl. How often do I have to change out the cutting line? After about 90 minutes of shredding.The only thing I found problematic was fitting a bag. The stand tapers getting narrow at the top. My wife found these green lawn bags (I believe here on Amazon) and so I set the shredder up on some scrap wood on two sawhorses. There is some blow-by since the bags don't go completely up and around the bottom of the shredder. See the setup photo. The cardboard box is just to raise it a few more inches.Recommend hearing protection, gloves, and (mandatory for me) safety glasses.5 Stars! It does what it's supposed to, and is very easy to set up out of the box.
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