WORX WG509 12 Amp Trivac, 3 in 1 Electric Leaf Blower, Leaf Vacuum & Leaf Mulcher for Lawn Care

I got tired of paying someone to take care of the leaves that accumulate in my yard each Fall, so I decided to buy this Worx Trivac leaf mulcher to help me do the job myself. I have owned several Worx tools over the years, so I know that their quality is excellent. This device is actually a blower as well, but I wouldn’t call it a 3-in-1 device since the vacuum and mulcher features are really just one function (It sucks in the leaves and mulches them before depositing them into the attached bag). Since this mulcher requires a power cord, I would recommend using at least a 50-foot cord and maybe even a 100-foot one, depending on the size of your yard. After using this mulcher for an entire weekend, I am very pleased with it so far. However, I have 2 recommendations. First of all, make sure you don’t have any rocks, small tree branches, or other objects in the yard that could damage the impeller or cause it to get clogged. So I would suggest walking around your yard and removing any objects besides leaves that could cause problems when you’re using it. Second, it will be much easier to mulch the leaves if you rake them into piles first. I took a normal rake and went around my yard and created several small piles, which then made using this mulcher much more efficient. Also make sure you have a large garbage can ready so you can dump the bag of mulched leaves into it each time it fills up. Based on my experience with this leaf mulcher, I highly recommend it. The only thing that would make it better is if Worx came out with a battery-powered version so you didn’t have to drag a cord around your yard. But a battery-powered version might be too heavy and might not have enough power, so maybe that’s why Worx hasn’t done that.

I wish I had found this years ago. I spend so much time in my garden, weeding, cleaning up leaves, cleaning up, cleaning up, cleaning up, on repeat like Sisyphus, hauling my garden waste to the yard waste bin, hauling that to the curb... At a certain point this summer, I got so disgusted that I just stopped. All my yard waste got stacked in a pile, where it sat.My husband suggested we get this vac and now, honestly, I'm a little mad at him that he knew about such tools and has been withholding this information from me for years. I used the vac this past weekend and cleaned up my whole garden, my porch, vacuumed the dirt out of my porch rugs, and cleaned the patio.This works amazing on leaves and your non-stacked debris. I still have a pile of wet debris from a recent rain that could use drying out before revisiting vacuuming. A couple times I did have to clean out the shoot because I was a little over-enthusiastic with trying to get up the wet piles of old tomato plants, but that's on me.The bag has a convenient zipper for emptying out the mulch. Love the design. Easy. Free mulch. It's wonderful.Vac took a little getting used to in terms of how to sling the catch bag over your shoulder, but easy enough once your figure it out. I am not a beast, but reasonably strong and the vac does get heavy with a full bag, but that is all to be expected and a great excuse to take a break anyway to empty the bag, and maybe, crack an adult beverage of your choice. Because now you have SO MUCH TIME again to enjoy life!If I had a time machine and had a chance to offer advice to my younger self it would be this, "saving is all well and good and smart on you being frugal, but consider your quality of life, the crushing blows to your spirit, and the precious hours you lose doing things the hard way. Just spend the money and buy the tools that buy you back your time."That is my advice to you. Buy back your life. And also buy some earplugs, because even the best things come with a price. Don't let it be your hearing.

I bought this unit for the vacuum function and I'm pretty happy with how it works. It is light weight and appears to be well engineered.Assembling the unit was pretty simple until I tried to slip the extension onto the main vacuum tube. It was a very tight fit and at one point when the vacuum got clogged up (only happened once on the day I tried it) I tried to pull off the extension to clear the clog, but was unable to. Luckily, I was able to reach up into the extension and clear the clog of wet leaves with my hand quite easily. I ran the vacuum mostly on low speed, as I was clearing leaves from a surface of 3/4" stones and didn't want to suck up a lot of rocks. This worked pretty well, dry leaves sucked up easily as did most wet ones unless they were soaked and packed together.The impeller of the unit is made of metal and seems to be quite durable. I heard a few 'pings' as some rocks went through it, but they didn't appear to cause any damage.I like the way the vacuum bag detaches easily from the unit for dumping. If you try to dump the collected leaves into a disposal bag with the vacuum bag attached to the unit, it is rather awkward. Simply detaching the bag from the unit using the quick disconnect feature makes it much easier to handle and to dump without spilling. The zipper on the vac bag is pretty heavy duty and I am hoping it will prove to be durable long term. I researched and determined that a replacement bag could be ordered at a reasonable cost, and considering the low price of this unit compared to most competitors, it was a no-brainer purchase.One complaint I have is that the slot near the power cord, for anchoring the extension cord, is rather tight and requires a very sharp loop in the cord to insert it. You essentially double over the extension cord, jam it through the hole in the handle and loop it around the retaining hook. If you use the recommended size extension cord, you will have to double it up tighter than I like in order to get it into the hole. I don't like to bend my extension cords quite so tightly as it is rough on the insulation and wire.Otherwise, I am pretty happy with this unit and hope to get many good years of use.