WORX WG505 Trivac 12 Amp 3-in-1 Electric Leaf Blower/Leaf Vacuum/Mulcher, Metal Impeller for Fine Mulching

Waiting for the right yard tools till I saw this product. This products works better than advertised. Keeps my yard clean.

I made a poor decision purchasing this item. The blower works well enough but the vacuum feature is pathetic. I have to hold items up to it in order for them to be vacuumed in. Plus it is very HEAVY. I am 200#, 5'11" male and I had a hard time lugging this around my yard. A neighbor thought you could detach the vacuum motor from the blower. He was wrong. All you can do is turn a dial to either blow or vacuum. But the entire tool remains as one single piece. I am keeping it in any case. If need be I will just buy a blower alone. My neighbors have done that and the ones they have are light enough to use. I just thought I need to suck up grass and dead leaves. I do but this isn't the item to purchase to do that.Update: 2018-11-20I have dramatically changed my evaluation from 2 stars to 5 stars. I finally learned how to use this properly. First, the strap around the bag is meant to go over your shoulder to support the weight of the blower/vacuum. Putting the strap at the proper length makes all of the difference in the world for comfort and ease of use. It is a matter of trial and error until it feels right, which it now does for me.The vacuum really works very well. I don't know what I was thinking of with my first rating of 2 stars which criticized the vacuum as 'pathetic.' It is not. It is just like running your home vacuum over a carpet except here you are running it over grass. I found that it even picked up wet leaves that had been pushed into the soil because they had been walked over. You do have to be very careful not to vacuum up semi-branches because they can jam in the rotor which breaks up the debris. The rotor turns to create the vacuum. If the branch is a twig, it will work but if you hear a 'seizing' noise after sucking up any solid object, even thick mulch, turn it off and remove the front section so that you can see the rotor blades. Use needle nose plier to pull out the offending item.I just vacuumed up the leaves from a 5,000 square foot yard with relative ease and had no noticeable strain on my arms or back. It was a lot easier than raking. And, if the leaves are 'blow around' dry, the vacuum picks them so easily as to make it 'fun' -- almost!!!It is important to empty the bag whenever you sense that the vacuum suction is weakening. It takes less than a minute to empty the bag into a disposable bag. Once you have done so and you returning to vacuuming up the leaves, you will notice the increased strength of the vacuum.While it does have the ability to work as a blower, I use a dedicated cordless blower which is easier to handle, gives me freedom to go where I want rather than being tethered to a cord, and works it a bit stronger than this blower. I use a worx 32 v blower. But, it is nice to have the option of using the blower immediately if the need arises.Also, I use a 50 foot 16 gauge extension cord which gives me just enough freedom to work on my entire yard. I have several outdoor outlet around my house.I highly recommend this for keeping your lawn clean of leaf debris.

I really like this thing. It's a bit heavy and awkward to hold for little ole me but it gets the job done. Using it with the bag on the mulch setting makes yard cleanup so easy. It does suction a bit slowly though, I found myself blowing leaves into a nice size pile and then pulling up a chair to sit and suck them up. This took a bit of the weight off and added some relief to the awkwardness of the hold.The blower quality is nice. It was easy to create a pile rather than blow leaves all over the yard. The fact that you can plug it in is much better than having to change out a battery.

Had one before and loved it till extension cord burned the blower’s socket. Replaced both. This is lightweight, great power and suction for vacuuming! I have astroturf and the vacuum works fantastic.

Been looking for a replacement yard leaf vac/blower for quite some time. Thought I'd try Worx WG512. Read many reviews. Some very positive. Some negative. Unfortunately I fell into the negative category. I really wanted this to work. Concept is there - just not the implementation. Made of great heavy duty plastic. Love how rotation of a turning mechanism changes this from a blower to a vac and this is where the fault lies with the product.I rotated that lever several times in practice and heard it 'clicking' into position. Upon first several power ups - the unit would just not engage - even though it was plugged in correctly. After powering off and moving that lever - it finally clicked enough into position - that it would power up. This thing is also very loud compared to my previous other manufacture unit that I had originally for 6 years.I use different manufacturer blowers almost every other week - I have artificial turf for my backyard - So I use it to help blow the dog fur or leaves / twigs that have fallen. During the fall - units get a workout blowing all the leaves and then pulverizing them into small bits. (This is one thing I read in many reviews that the Worx was not great at - grinding up leaves - but unfortunately I never got a chance to try). As well - I have a backup gas powered blower to use (as I've had that for 12-15 years) and it still runs like a champ - but I dislike smelling of 2 cycle after I'm finished all the time.So I attempted to use the Worx blower yesterday and had power to the unit and it started fine on its high speed. Suddenly - I began to smell a burning plastic and then electrical smell. I powered off unit. Examined the motor and made sure the fins were rotating freely. Which they were. I started the unit back up - It began to run and went immediately from high speed to low speed on its own. At this point I powered entire unit off took it back into my garage. Got my gas powered unit out and finished blowing my backyard. Later I tried powering the Worx WG512 unit in my garage and unit would not even power on. Time to box unit back up and return it.I so wanted to try this Worx unit out - especially the leaf collection unit which will attach directly to trash cans. But due to the issues with this unit, and I'm not in the position to constantly exchange units with manufacturers - some would say that I got a bad unit. I just don't think the quality control of this is quite up to par.Finally - it was definitely a electrical issue with the motor. When I had the unit on my workbench and I was taking the tube off the unit - I noticed fine granules collect at the bottom of where the motor was. At first - I thought this was just fine plastic, but upon further review - these plastics looking pieces were actually the magnetic parts from the interior motor. I captured these in a ziploc bag to send back.