I have a small yard and a fantasy of having a small leaf sucker/blower to blow the leaves in a pile and vacuum them up, them dump them in our hard waste.
It's powerful (sucking or blowing). Light enough to be used easily. Here's the problem: the leaf collecting bag (when you're vacuuming them up) is attached with a little plastic cylinder. One presses a button on the unit to drop the bag off. I've used it a total of three times over the past 3 months. From the start, the bag would stick -- I don't know if it's a problem with the button, or some extra piece of plastic somewhere is getting hung up, but it would take a minute of fidgeting with it to get the bag to finally release. It got progressively worse. Today, on the third use, the thing finally refused to come off. I'm fairly mechanically handy and I spent about 10 minutes trying both mechanical and force-based approaches to get it off -- no luck. Then my wife, who has a degree in both Mechanical Engineering and Rocket Science (astronautics and aeronautics), and who has designed and built and fixed thousands of pieces of equipment, spent 10 minutes working on it -- literally just trying to get the plastic sleeve to release when one presses the release button -- but it's locked on there. With that plastic sleeve locked on, it can't be used as a blower (the blower attachment goes there), and without the ability to remove and empty the leaf bag, the utility of the unit is zero.
Quite literally, this design flaw (or manufacturing flaw if it's a problem with fit and finish work) has rendered the unit unusuable after about 3 hours worth of use.
Incredibly disappointing, but please save yourself this frustration and don't buy this.
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