WORX Leaf Collection System with a 5" Inches Tube, WA4054.2

Last year I had to pay someone $350 to collect the leaves in my yard. This was in December when they were eager ly work, and after heavy negotiating. This year I wanted to find a more sustainable solution. I decided to use a blower/vac in combination with the LeafPro by Worx. Question was, which blower/vac and can I actually get this system to work? After a lot of research and video watching, it became clear the Toro UltraPlus was the best option. The CFM and MPH balance was best of available blower/vacs. I was very concerned there would be enough suction to collect all the leaves easily, but that needed to be balanced with the blowing aspect. The trivacs have higher CFM but the MPH are low. So would it blow well enough at a distance? The Sunjoe had slightly better CFM than the Toro but much worse MPH. The Toro impeller design looked way better than the Sunjoe too at grinding. I was thinking about the Worx Turbine Fusion but people said the impeller grinded too much and the dust was terrible. The other issue was connecting this thing to the LeafPro. I read the "universal adapter" could slip off and I should try to get the older version which had plastic connections specifically for other brand models (which turned out to be totally unavailable). Maybe it was just better to get a Worx blower instead? In the end, the reviews of the Toro were all so strong I decided to go for it and risk the LeafPro not working with it. Thankfully, the connection worked perfectly and was really tight with no real risk of coming off! The next issue was what to use on the other end to collect the leaf mulch. Most people were connecting the LeafPro to a garbage can. I didn't have one right sized for use with 55 gallon trash bags and didn't want to buy one unnecessarily. I saw someone had used this system with a Leafmate paper bag funnel and it worked for them, so I decided to try with the Leafmate designed for varying sized plastic trash bags. It also worked brilliantly! I was able to keep it on its side at first to collect the mulch and then after it was nearly full I turned it upright to collect the rest. The Leafmate just slides up the bag to hold the opening and connection to the LeafPro. This system was able to reduce a 20-30 bag job to less than 5, and what took 3 people half a day of tiring work took me 1.5hrs of blowing and 2 hours of vacuuming and I was not tired at all. These three items cost me $140... a total win! Tips: -Dont try to suck up too much, the vac will clog -The Toro can handle sticks and other non-leaf debris you may encounter (see photo), but it's better to remove them from the pile by hand as they can create clogs -When you do get a clog, try turning off the vac and just tap the tube against the ground the dislodge whatever is in there. Turn it back on and half the time it'll be able to suck whatever was in there out -Point the exit hose of the LeafPro away from you and downwind. A moderate amount of dust comes out of the mesh cover. -The weak point in the system if the LeafPro mesh cover. It will stay on the Leafmate pretty well because it has a good rim it can wrap itself around, but mulch will collect in the mesh around the rim and it can get pulled off. Collect your leaves close enough to the bag and you won't pull it off by mistake (happened to me on the last bag, luckily it's easy to just revacuum up the debris).

BLUF I have picked up a lot of leafs with this guy now and am very impressed. The cloth lid with draw string stays on the can. The plastic hose does not stretch much but if you get a can with wheels you can pull it behind you. I don't feel like a save a lot of time but It is less physical work. This product does exactly what it says it does. I have a relatively small piece of property that is blessed with nine oak trees. I love the trees in the summer when the Texas heat is in the hundreds but hate them in the fall when I have to bag leafs, bag after bag after bag. I fill from fifty to 100 thirty-gallon bags of leafs a year. the raking doesn't bother me so much but the constant bending over, picking up an arm load of leafs, putting them in the bag and then repeating until seventy or eighty bags are filled up kills my back and hamstrings. I was laying in bed the other night thinking about how to create an attachment for my WORX WG508 leaf blower/vacuum and came up with the idea of building a frame with a screen to sit on top of a trashcan. then I had to figure out how to attach a hose to the vacuum and then to the screen. The next day my wife handed me her phone and said, "Hey, you think this would work?" That was the first time I had seen the WORX LeafPro. I ordered it that day and got it the next day. Unboxing When it arrived it was in a sealed factory box. I heehawed around about lots of football being on and I didn't really want to go get the stuff out to test it for about thirty minutes and then the curiosity got to me and decided I would just open the box and see what it looked like. Well, to my surprise it did not match the picture on Amazon. The one I ordered showed five adapters in the picture. The one I got had only one "universal adapter". I will talk briefly about that adapter in a bit. Because I have a WORX leaf blower/vacuum I wasn't really concerned about the adapters because I didn't require one. Oh, there were some directions in the box too but, well, I am a man and they were never opened. Connecting the Attachment First thing I had to do was get the cloth part of the attachment around the trashcan. The only trashcan I had was the large trashcan we sit outside to put our household trash in. Today just happened to be trash day so luckily me it was empty. I found that resting the hose attached to the bag, it's really not a bag but more of a lid for your trashcan, anyway, putting the hose over my shoulder to support the wight of the hose while attaching the bag to the trashcan made things a little easier. I then started to stretch the bag around the top of the trashcan.while doing this I discovered why others said you need a trashcan with a rim on it. The rim would have made that easier but I got the bag on in a couple of minutes and used the draw string in the bag to tighten it around the top of the can. My thought at this time was, as soon as I turn the vacuum on this bag is going for fly off the can and mulched leafs are going to fly everywhere. Next I pulled the blower attachment off the leaf blower and attached the vacuum attachment. This is a simple process but takes a little strength to get the blower attachment off. However, that it for the blower review. Once those were in place I just attached the hose from the LeafPro to the vacuum. Push on and twist to lock, easy as that. Using I had a couple piles of leafs already raked up so all I had to do is move the trashcan and vacuum to the pile and get started. I pushed the switch to high and off I went sucking up that pile of leafs that had been sitting there for three days and I had refused to bag by hand. I was really hoping a huge gust of wind would come along and blow them away. At any rate, as I turned the vacuum on, I looked over at the can to watch the bag fill with air, expecting it to blow off the can at any point. Well it did puff up but it did not blow off. In about the same amount of time it would have taken me to bag the leafs by hand I was able to vacuum them. So it didn't really save me a lot of time but it did save my back and hamstrings. The Dirty Part When you use this thing make sure you are not down wind. Also, everything down wind will be covered in dirt. The reason you can't just blow the mulch into a trash bag is the bag would fill with air and pop. This is the same reason the bag on this attachment allows air to escape from the trashcan. If it didn't then the can would fill up with air and the bag would just blow off. Because the bag allows the air to escape it also allows a lot of dirt to escape. This dirt is fine and will cover everything down wind of where you are working. Overall I would say the LeafPro was worth every penny. I would have given it five stars if the picture matched the product. I guess that part is really for the seller review. From reading other reviews of this product I have figured out there are two versions of this item. Most of the negative reviews are due to the "universal adapter" not working on other leaf blowers.Specifically people having problems getting the "universal adapter" either staying on the vacuum or getting it off. Well, I did play with the attachment and getting it off shouldn't be hard. To put it on just wrap it around the outlet of your vacuum and lift up on the little silver tab multiple times until the adapter is tight. To get it off you simply press one of the little levers on either side of the silver tab and pull the strap so the adapter loosens. So back to the two versions, if you have a WORX blower then get the one with only one attachment because you don't need an attachment. If you don't have a WORX leaf blower you may opt for the other since it has more attachments that are made for other specific brands of blower/vacuums. Update - I purchased a $15 Rubermaid Roughneck 32 Gallon trash can from HD along with some large, cheap trash bags. Once I put the trash bag in I use a bungee cord around the can to hold the bag in place before I put the vacuum on. Once the bag is full the vacuum will start making a strange noise and stop picking up leafs. Just pull the vacuum top off the can, roll the can to where you want to dump the bag, tie the bag off and dump it out on the ground. Don't try to pull the bag out because between the wight and the suction it will not come out. Just dump it.

First, you buy the Worx WG509 Blower/ALL METAL MULCHER. You're not going to use the blower because it's garbage, but I haven't found a better mulcher that's affordable, mobile, and has all metal parts. You're going to have to use a gas backpack blower or rake. I have a LARGE property, with a RIDICULOUS amount of leaves. I've tried everything from using the lawn mower, burning them in a burn cage, and this. I keep coming back to this method. Amazon sells the WG509 and the WORX WA4054.2 LeafPro Universal Leaf Collection System both as a bundle or independently. When you get the Universal Leaf Collection system, make sure it's the WA4054.2 model. This model is meant strictly for this type of mulcher (WG509) without all the adapter parts. It attaches one way and no adapter needed. Throw away the little shoulder bag that comes with the mulcher, unless you have a little garden cleanup. Useless for a lot of leaves. Now... Go to Home Depot and pick up those tough metal spring clamps with the black or grey handles that are around $1.50 each. Get about 6. Also, Amazon sells a box of 92 gallon can liners. They're basically tough, large black bags. I use them in those big, square garbage pails at Home Depot. The type that are grey with a black attached lid and 2 big wheels on the back. They also come in blue as recycle cans. Doesn't matter which you use. This universal collection thing uses a string to keep it on the pails. That only works for the small round pails, but you'll get so much more done with the bigger square pails. Put the bag in the pail, place the fabric over the pail, and use the clamps to hold the fabric on tightly. Connect the hose to the mulcher and vacuum away! It mulches to an 18:1 capacity. So you'll get 18 bags of leaves ground up into just one bag. Not bad! Now when you're vacuuming, the leaves will tend to pile in one place. Just spin the can around to get it more even. When it starts to get full, just push the fabric down to push the leaves down. As the leaves reach the top, the suction dies down. So keep pushing it down until it's really full. Then take the clamps and fabric off, tie the bag, turn the pail on its side to slide the bag out. RINSE AND REPEAT! I've heard this doesn't work with those giant leaves. Can't remember what they're called. I use these on Oak Trees. And there's so many leaves that it's a pile about 20 feet long and 6 feet high. It takes me about 8-10 bags to finish it. I have this down to a science. If I used a lawn mower, I'd severely dull the blade, kill the mower from all dust, and I'd be mowing a half acre of property every day. I use the backpack blower every few days and blow the leaves into a contained area so they don't blow around. Don't get me wrong... It still sucks, lol. But it's the best way to get it done. Hope this helps! I tried to spell out every step if you're dealing with a lot of leaves. Good Luck!

My yard has large oak trees that produce an incredible amount of leaves in the fall. I tackle the job by mulching over the leaves first with my mower. I then use my gas powered blower to move the mulched leaves into the center of the yard. I use this WORX leaf collection system for the many smaller areas where leaves collect. Like the concrete stairway down to the back entrance of my home. The areas around bushes, etc. I attach this to my corded WORX leaf vacuum and attach this to a 33 gallon plastic trashcan. The leaf vacuum mulches the leaves and small sticks into smaller pieces. I have not had any jams in the tubing. This system is great for small areas - it saves your back from having to scoop the leaves into a bag or trashcan. You can't beat it for the price. High quality. That said, don't think you are going to be able to replace your mower/gas blower if you have the amount of leaves that I do.

Very cumbersome this setup will weight more than the empty trash can it will fall over a lot. The hose is very short you will be walking a trash can behind you the whole time so make sure it has wheels!

We have used for 2 or 3 years now. We’re in our 70’s and these make the annual leaf gathering chore, which has at least 3 iterations, manageable. Have actually purchased two.

Great time saver. Five times the size of the original bag.

I was hopeful that this would overcome the difficulty of carrying the bag on the shoulder. HOWEVER, I tried the square wheeled garbage can as shown in one video,...the cord didn't keep the cover in place. I will try a bungee cord to make it tighter, BUT it also falls over very easily. The attachment with the hose brings extra weight as you try to move it. I tried a smaller round container. It also falls over easily although the cover stayed on it better.. a bungee cord could still help there. I am using it for just one very large tree that has a fungus so I need to get the leaves cleaned off so they don't disintegrate back into the soil to make the tree worse. I used the shoulder bag for just over an hour and got only about half of the area. When I returned with the collection system, I went over the same area and it still took me an hour to do about the same area. As I wrote, hoping a bungee cord will keep the cover on more effectively but also wondering how to keep it from tipping over so easily...may try putting it into a yard wagon. I am wondering then, what will be best way to dispose of the leaves that carry a fungus?

völlig sinnloses Produkt, passt weder auf einen Bosch Laubbläser noch auf den originalen Worx-Akku-Laubbläser

Great

Instead of filling your garden vac bag with leafs, use this and the leafs are mulched and go straight into your wheelie bin. No more stopping to empty bag after bag. Takes me 20mins to do my entire garden now. Works with most Garden vacs as the adapter is designed to secure tightly over the vac sucker.

great product. fits a 95 gal blue bin with the lid open. Quick disconnect is great for emptying the bin.

Utile pour feuilles .