Customer Reviews

Ryobi RESV1300 Electric Mulchinator Vac

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

My husband considers leaf blowers gadgets--but since I am the lawn care provider in the family, he humored me by allowing me to purchase one. I have rheumatoid arthritis and needed to find a machine that I could easily maneuver on my own. I love the fact that I can be blowing leaves one second, flip the lever, and I am sucking up leaves in my planting bed!. The only negative to the design is the plug in. Unless you wrap the extension cord around the inside of handle, the cord unplugs alot. Once I looped it through the handle, the problem was solved!

To change from blower to vacuum with a flip of a switch, no changing parts is just about the best idea in yard work. I used to pull my old blower/vac out when I absolutely had to and hated taking it apart several times to switch from blower to vac mode as I moved around the yard. Now I use it every week after mowing in no time at all. I can work an area blowing the leaves out, flip a switch and vacuum them up without the hassle of changing parts. My old blower vacuum attachment broke from over use. This unit is light, comfortable and very powerful. A great choice for the home gardener!

The vaccum/blower it's self works great, but the bag seams keep blowing out. Replacement bags are $35.00 each and at that rate, it does not pay for itself. We have had ours for 3 years. Within the first 6 months we needed a new bag. We were very careful to keep the second bag emptied and it blew out in under 6 months. That would of been $70.00 in replacement bags in the first year. My husband wrapped the hole with wire and then it blew a hole else where in the seam. For the last year we have been using it as a blower only. I have written Ryobi in regards to the quality of the bag and received no response. If anyone knows of another brand of bag that will fit on the Ryobi and lasts longer, I would appriciate the information.

Okay Amazon.com can you believe it??

I ordered a Ryobi 1300 on Oct 28 about midnight. Today, I was mowing my yard, and when done, I was picking up the leaves around the curb with my Weedeater Gator Vac. My first Gator Vac lasted about(5) years and blew apart, a couple of months ago. I had bought, a second one, and had never ran it, as it was my spare. Then when needed, I tried to run the spare, and it had a bad moter, so I took both units apart, and made one good one, I thought. Well the fixed one, lasted for one yard moving, and leaf picking up. I could tell the motor bearings were going out plus the knob, at the bottom, to change from blow to vacuum was in bad shape. I got by one last job, but as I was using it this afternoon, the motor evidently let go of the impeller. It would run but no blow or vacuum. I deposited it into the waste can for City trash pickup, and I went and got a broom and a large dust pan. As I was picking up about (3-4) baskets of leaves by hand.

A Brown UPS truck drives up, to the curb, and stops. The UPS man says, I got you Royobi, and we talked for a few minutes and I quickly unpacked the box, and got my extension cord back out again. I turned the switch on, and it was in blow mode. I quickly turned the switch to the vacuum mode and the leaves disappeared and were sucked into the bag and shreaded into a ratio of about 1/10. A couple of times, I touched the ground with the nozzle, and was almost pulled to China. I then attached a log chain to my garden tractor and my seat belt I was then wearing to keep from going too far under ground. Ha Ha!

This is great piece of equipment and is better than the Gator Vac ever was when new.

Amazon.Com, you saw my order, for this and the Bessy clamps and the Dewalt router edge guide. All have been delivered, and all are fine tools. You can expect, many more orders, from us soon. In fact, tonight, we will order much more. My next order will be for many Freud router bits and other accessories for a table saw etc. This was my first order using the internet, because all the local stores do not sell most of my needs.

Keep up the good work. The beauty of the Ryobi is that you can change from blow to vacuum by throwing a switch. This means, one can blow a pile of trash, then vacuum it up, without having to change nozzles and install a bag. For a yard, of about 110 ft it is certainly the way to go. Beautiful engineering design. You will be happy with this equipment, I guarantee IT. Now to place another order for even more!!

Thanks again,
From Decatur, Alabama

This device from Ryobi is the ultimate for the home gardner who needs a blower to move clippings and leaves into one area and then change to a vacuum with one easy flip of the handle to pick up the debris into the attached bag, and you don't have to change nozzles.

It took me four years to wear out my last one.

Got my Ryobi just in time to collect my Mulberry tree buds. They are the worst, you sweep them and they break up into tiny pieces of pollen that go up your nose! With the Mulchi, I can blow them into a pile and suck them up quickly (I panicked about the impeller churning up little rocks and sticks, but it seemed to handle it okay). Emptying the bag is a bit of a trick so that you don't inhale too much of your collections but no where near the hassle with a broom and a dustpan. I have an entire summer to wait until leaves become an issue. But as for clean up, I can get my patio cleaned up in no time (this thing blows incredibly strong)...more time for some other chore that needs attending. I chose this machine over others based on the input from other Amazon.com comments which I sincerely appreciated. Happy blowing!

I just ordered my second Ryobi to pickup leaves and blow the driveway and curb clean. It's the only one of its kind, that will go from blow to vacuum, by merely throwing a switch on the side of the unit. After mulching the leaves the bag holds just about as much as a person wants to carry to the trash pile. We have (35) Bradford pear trees in our small yard (110x120ft). I use a Wheelhorse tractor to pull a lawn sweeper around and pickup all the leaves possible. I then use the Ryobi, to pickup a few leaves around each tree that the sweeper missed. The shrubs around the entire house have leaves and the Ryobi is used to vacuum these leaves up too. Then the driveway and curb leaves are blown into piles and the Ryobi vacuums them up. Sure this is the busy season, and most of the work for gathering up all the leaves is right now. But...now it's done, as all the leaves have all fallen to the ground, and the yard looks like a carpet without a single leaf present.

There are (4)phillips head screws/bolts that hold the air/leaf tunnels to the power unit. If there is a pluggage, due to wet leaves, the tunnel and inlet to the blade can plug. It rained 3/4 inch yesterday, and the leaves were not as dry, as they should have been. Tomorrow, I am going to replace these bolts/screws with ones with a knob or wheel, so I can merely turn the knob, to release the tunnels. Phillips screws have a tendency to round out after one use. The last time, I used the Ryobi, I had no pluggage as the leaves were completely dry. I am happy with the design and buying a second one shows that overall this is the only way to go.

Amazon keep up the good work!!! More orders(5) are on their way. Happy New Year. By the way, the mailman, just delivered your new catalog today.

The bag on this vac is nice and large, and well designed to hold a lot of mulched leaves, but the zipper lost its hold after about 2-3 years. You can't realistically replace the zipper and even trying to close the zipper "gently" doesn't do the trick. I really liked its mulching capability - I don't understand the logic of blowing leaves around, makes much more sense to vacuum them up and get them off my property - but the bag zipper doesn't last. In desperation I duct-taped over the zipper but that only lasted about 3 uses and the tape starts to peel off, and unless you vaccum up small particles or very dry leaves that break up small, it's next to impossible to empty the bag out of the top opening. Based on the other reviews I am not going to bother hunting up a replacement bag - at first I thought I just had the bad luck to have a bag with a defective zipper but too many reviewers indicate the zipper is a design defect.

If anyone knows of another mulching vacuum please leave a review note here. My 3 stars are strictly for the mulching ability of this vac.

The first thing I noticed when I got this blower/Vac and was a little of hard to put to together and the Bag is a little small for Big yards,the customer service at Ryobi could be better if you buy this be a aware some places won't service Ryobi products because they dont get paid back by Ryobi.It's still a good blower with a easy vac switch which I like for picking up leafs and grass and it does do a good job of cleaning up,but the company could do better.

noticed some negative reviews and aside from the clip for the strap breaking (actually it bent, so I bent it back) I have had no problems with this item after about 3 months of use.

not sure what it's doing to my power bills, but this is way more fun than raking up leaves and lawn trimmings, and the mulching feature leaves more room in our green recycling bin. If you have a small lawn, this product effectively allows you to vacuum it after mowing(which I know sounds crazy, and it is, a bit, but boy, the lawn looks great!)

haven't tried it as a blower yet, so can't give it 5 stars, and although it is quiet, I wouldn't get all fired up to use it before 9 AM.