Leaf Bag Loader

Product Description

Raking up the leaves in the yard will be a breeze with the leaf bag loader. The leaf loader acts like a funnel that greatly facilitates getting all the ... [Read more]

Top Reviews

finally solves problem of getting LOTS of LEAVES into my garbage can or bag!
by David Alexoff (5 out of 5 stars)
May 15, 2011

Not surprising coming from the folks that brought me my favorite snow shovel (sno wovel) - a simple, affordable, smart product that solves an everyday problem for home owners. I often use a tarp to move very large loads of leaves to the front of my property but soon I will be faced with problem of bagging or packing leaves and twigs into a garbage can. I immediately gave the leaf loader a try and it at least doubled the amount of lawn debris I could shove in a can in half the time. The adjustable strap was perfect to grab and leverage loads of twigs and leaves up into the can. In fact, it was so easy to lift and pack debris I eventually exceeded the capacity of the leaf loader when I found myself shoving mostly dirt (~50??lbs) into the can with the help of the handy strap!

Anyway, I love this product. Perfect for spring cleanup moving lots of leaves and debris quickly and efficiently.

I found this video on the web - looks like from the company, I think... helped me so fyi.
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Learning curve
by 86 (4 out of 5 stars)
December 4, 2013

It's not magic and it isn't going to rake the leaves for you. It will probably be very frustrating the first time you use it. The more you use it the better you will get at managing the leaf taco. Is it a time-saver? Not sure. But it definitely makes thing easier, especially on your back. I used to step on the bag, bend over and shovel the leaves in with my hands. I'm 34 and this is no longer as easy as I remember.

I got 50 gallon plastic trash bags. I did not use the string connector thing. I just folded the tarp into a taco with my right hand and held the 50 gallon bag in my left hand. I inserted the taco into the bag all the way. Then just lay the leaf taco down gently. If your too rough with it it will snap out of its shape. Once the taco has some leaves in it it will be more manageable. Rake the taco full of leaves then push the leaves in the bag, repeat until the bag starts to get full. With the taco full just close it up lift it upright and stuff down into the bag, then lay bag down and repeat. I soon realized that raking the leaves into a pile was useless. You don't really need to do this, as it creates extra work. It also gets a little messy. I got a 50 gal brute garbage can, put the 50 gal bag into it and then the leaf taco in the can, but this didn't work as well and created an extra step.

Further details:
I had 39 gallon trash bags that I used for the leaves. First off these bags are too small. The taco really needs to be deep inside the bag for it to retain its shape and not snap out. There is no way I would be able to get it to work with paper bags. If you fold it up too much it will twist out of its taco shape. Very frustrating. It can also get frustrating when it is windy out.
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Excellent Idea
by Amazon Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
October 20, 2014

This handy device made loading the leaves into the black bags I have so much easier. I did like having two people to handle it, but if push came to shove I suppose one person could do it.

Pros: Sets up quickly and easily
Puts away quickly and easily
Stores in a very small place
Best of all: Shortens the time it takes to pick up leaves and there's some bending, but it's minor. Once, compared to the many times I usually have to bend over.

Cons: Haven't discovered any yet. I have only used it once.

I highly recommend this to anyone who has leaves to gather.
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Works Great
by Cathleen B (5 out of 5 stars)
January 3, 2014

Two summers ago I bought a house in the city with a half-acre lot and over 100 oak and elm trees. It was beautiful and shady and peaceful and perfect until the fall. What was I thinking? Bags and bags and bags of leaves (gathered over several weekends) later this old lady decided trees are for the birds.

Next year I hired out the leaf collection. Hundreds of dollars later, and a severely damaged lawn ravaged by an over zealous leaf removal machine operated by one of the lawn contractors (thousands of dollars to re-sod), I saw this thing.

I didn't really expect this to amount to much, but I gave it a shot. I was shocked at how much easier it is to bag leaves with this. I still don't like raking leaves, but last weekend I picked up 10 55-gallon bags of leaves in about an hour and I didn't hurt my back at all. This thing is a little weird at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's fabulous. It's light weight and it seems pretty tough. Plus, I don't have to put my hands in the leaf piles (snakes are also for the birds).

I use the leaf blower to blow all the leaves to one general spot and then take a rake and pitch them in the shovel end of this thing, tip the bag up (one full scoop with the device in the bag fills a 55 gallon bag almost up), then I take the scooper out of the bag, smash down the leaves, and funnel another half scoop in the bag to fill the bag. The scooper is light enough to handle easily as a big funnel and once you don't need it to hold the bag open, you don't need to keep it in the bag. I found that it was harder to remove once I smashed (sp?) the leaves down to make room for more so I took it out before I smashed the leaves down.

When you are done with it, you fold it and clip it and store it away (in very little space) until next time.
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finally solves problem of getting LOTS of LEAVES into my garbage can or bag!
by David A. (5 out of 5 stars)
May 15, 2011

Not surprising coming from the folks that brought me my favorite snow shovel (sno wovel) - a simple, affordable, smart product that solves an everyday problem for home owners. I often use a tarp to move very large loads of leaves to the front of my property but soon I will be faced with problem of bagging or packing leaves and twigs into a garbage can. I immediately gave the leaf loader a try and it at least doubled the amount of lawn debris I could shove in a can in half the time. The adjustable strap was perfect to grab and leverage loads of twigs and leaves up into the can. In fact, it was so easy to lift and pack debris I eventually exceeded the capacity of the leaf loader when I found myself shoving mostly dirt (~50??lbs) into the can with the help of the handy strap!

Anyway, I love this product. Perfect for spring cleanup moving lots of leaves and debris quickly and efficiently.

I found this video on the web - looks like from the company, I think... helped me so fyi.
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HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this product
by Jeff McCarty (5 out of 5 stars)
December 10, 2015

OMG this thing is a life saver. We have over 100 live oaks on our property and raking leaves used to be a real chore. With this leaf loader I was able to load up 8 of the extra large trash bags. My only problem is my trash company will only pick up two per pick up. But my neighbors were kind enough to let me set some out at their driveway! I had two of them stop and ask me what was I using to get up the leaves so quickly! HIGHLY, HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this product.
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Simply Awesome
by Jeff (5 out of 5 stars)
April 2, 2014

Best invention ever. I've been seeing a chiropractor for about 3 years now for lower back pain, so I've been dreading my spring cleanup, started out doing 30 minutes of raking a day to try to save my back, and I'd still be in pain the following day.

I just got finished doing about 2 hours of raking using this thing, It definitely cut down on the time it took to rake, and my back definitely is not as sore as it usually is. I also purchased the "Toro 29210 43-Gallon Gardening Spring Bucket" because I'm tired of bags being so hard to lift out of a normal garbage can. It worked perfectly. If only I'd purchased this 2 years ago!
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I does save time and energy, but requires some getting used to...
by Margaret Chung (4 out of 5 stars)
September 6, 2013

This is a great way to get the leaves off the ground in one go, but there is a learning curve on getting the leaves from the Loader into plastic bags.

Here's how I do it:
1) Put the white plastic Bag Rib into the straight white pocket sewn into the underside of one of the ends of the Leaf Loader. Couldn't figure out where that thing should go from the photo? Now you know!
2) Load leaves into the Leaf Loader. I do this with it in the flat mode
3) Curl the leaf loader up into a tight curl. I do this by taking the handle with the strap, threading the handle through the far side of the Loader, then back to the side of the loader where the strap is permanently attached. I then feed the handle through the small hole that the strap is permanently attached to. This cuts the effective length of the strap in half
4) Slide the rope loop (you saved that, right?) over the end of the Loader which has the Bag Rib. This forces that end of the Loader into a pretty stiff hoop.
5) Stick your bag onto the end of the Loader, and under the rope loop. This step is done with the Loader on the ground, the bag horizontal
6) This is the important step, I find: shove a bunch of the leaves from the Loader into the bag while the Loader is on the ground. This shifts some of the weight from the center of the Loader towards the end with the bag, and partially inflates the bag with leaves, giving it some stability for the next step
7) While holding onto the Rope Loop and the bag towards the top of the Loader, tilt the whole Loader/Bag assembly into the air so that the remaining leaves slide towards the bag. You now use your hands to stuff the remaining leaves into the bag.
8) While pushing down on the leaves, slide the Loader out of the bag. Remember to remove the rope loop from around the bag before tossing it into the trash bin (I found my rope loop around one of the bags I filled).
9) Repeat steps 2-9 until yard is clean/you are exhausted/it is too dark to see/you can't feel your fingers from the cold.

Cheers!
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this thing picks up like a kite and everything on it blows all over ...
by Monkeybutt (4 out of 5 stars)
February 8, 2016

Makes leaf cleanup a breeze!

My only complaint is if there is even the slightest wind, this thing picks up like a kite and everything on it blows all over the place. If you can use a buddy to stand on one end while you rake up leaves during blustery days, or just don't at all. Save it for days when nature isn't working against you. The leaves don't want to be raked anyway...
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A Time and Labor Saving Device
by Stephen C. Smith (4 out of 5 stars)
May 18, 2014

This lawn tool is a real time and labor saving device when bulk leaves or lawn cuttings, etc. have to be collected and bagged for disposal. About the only substantive reason I was unable to give the device a full 5-star rating was the fact that I was unable to effectively use it as described in the manufacturer's advertising. IMHO two hands are needed to control the Leaf Loader when dumping a reasonable sized load into a garbage bag. Two hands are necessary to (1) form and hold the delivery end of the device into the desired small "U" shape that is inserted into the mouth of the bag, (2) at the same time restraining the spring steel hoop that the forms the outer perimeter of the device, to keep it from twisting into the "figure-eight" shape that the unit naturally forms when it is setup for storage, and (3) to control the waste as it is transferred into the plastic bag. It seems that the only way it could be used as shown in the instructions would be to limit its use to small loads of leaves only, which would significantly reduce the weight of the load being dumped (i.e. no freshly-cut grass or pine needles etc.). Such limiting factors would result in the amount of work required to use this tool equaling or exceeding that of my previous collection method.

I have, however, found that the Leaf Loader does significantly reduce the work necessary to collect my lawn waste, if, I use an alternate method. I line the inside a standard plastic garbage can or similar container with a 55-gal. leaf bag, folding the excess bag down the outside of the container. Then it is very quick and easy to dump a good sized load of waste into the now stabilized bag while leaving both hands free to manipulate the Leaf Loader and its contents.

There is one other complication in using this device. If there is any noticeable wind blowing while using the Leaf Loader, it will tend to behave like a sail and blow away when you do not have physical control of the device. Such periods of time might occur, for example, while you are raking up more leaves, etc. In windy conditions, when not being used, the Leaf Loader needs to be secured to a stationary object.
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I love this thing
by Stuart McFarland (5 out of 5 stars)
November 29, 2015

I love this thing! I have five large deciduous trees in my back yard and every fall I spend many backbreaking hours raking leaves and then bending over to pick them up and stuff in bag-lined large trashcan. This recent fall, I raked up an area larger than the Leaf Loader, put the bag in the can as usual, folded the large Leaf Loader and stuck it into the can, laid the can with Loader on the ground, raked the leaves onto the loader and into the can, lifted the can/Loader to vertical, compact leaves into can, repeat until bag is full, withdraw Loader, pull full bag out of can. I fill about fifteen 55 gallon bags every year and Leaf Loader saved time and back aches. Plus, no moving parts to clog, break or wear out like on vacuum/shredder tools.

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