Side by Side Comparison of: Lawn Tractor Leaf Bag vs Agri-Fab

It does EXACTLY what it says it does. One, maybe 2 passes on my lawn in the fall - empty the 2 baskets. No more! I did my whole lawn & only filled the bag 1/3. I took the 2 baskets off the back, & cinched the leaf bag on - simple! Crazy as this sounds, I can't wait for a lot more leaves, to see how well this works. I did make a "rug", to put under the bag (to protect it from wear & any stray branches on the lawn that would tearing it). I used an old tarp, that was pretty thick. Had to adjust the position of where it went. I don't think I'll use it too much in the summer for grass - it would get too heavy. My 2 basket works fine.

This bag is a must have when living in New England (CT).. I have a massive maple tree in my front yard. I put the bag over the entire lid and string tight. Make sure you tie is VERY tight, as the bag gets heavy, about 30/40lbs I'd say, perhaps maybe even 50. I fill the bag and take it off and compact it, reattach and continue fillings. Perfect to toss into the bed of your truck/suv even car or empty in large barrels. I'll follow-up with pictures when use it again. The bag drags on the ground and if you pick up limbs etc bag will hold up well.

Update with pic, got the bag to about 70lbs today.. I have 0.4 Acres and what would take at least 6-7hrs took me about 3.5hrs, running to the dump between front and back.

Initially, I wasn't sure how to hook it up. The picture is a bit misleading, the bag does not connect directly to the side chute but goes entirely over the grass-bin cover. The chute exit is supported by the bin cover and the leaf bag has a wide opening to cover everything. A cord in the leaf cover permits you to get a tight fit around the bin cover and chute. Once I figured out how to securely attach the bag, I was ready to roll. The leaf pickup was smooth and the capacity of the bag was impressive. I only had to dump the bag twice compared to last year, when I had to empty the two rear grass bins at least 8 times to clear my yard of leaves. Dumping the leaves and re-connecting the bag was a snap. This attachment is both simple to use and saves a ton of work. If you have a ton of leaves and a lawn tractor, this is a great buy!

This giant leaf bag really works! It bags leaves and lawn well and fit our John Deere L120 just fine. I cinched it around the entire bagger system. It doesn't tighten perfectly due to the bar that attaches the Bagger to the mower. I simply took a few cheap clamps to tighten the giant bag around my bagger bin this way it keeps the leaves (and air pressure) in. One thing I found was the weight of the leaves and grass in the bag quickly became heavy. The weight of the giant bag tied to my mower can strain the plastic bagger system (to which it is tied). To solve this issue I attached an old tarp to the trailer hitch of the mower so the tarp (and the hitch) take most of the weight. I then found the tarp saves my bag if I go across pavement however the tarp I added was getting ripped. So I attached some wood lathe strips under the tarp so the lightweight wood protects the tarp which protect the bag. See photos!

HUGE! Really works. Needs to be installed correctly on or under grass catcher hood to keep leaves from blowing out bag opening.

I have a Husqvarna RZ46215 46" ZTR mower with the optional grass catcher - nearly identical to the catchers on a number of other mowers and the same as the one in the instructional videos at: http://lawntractorleafbag.com/tractors-with-grass-catchers/. The mowing deck seems to use high lift blades as it produces a lot of air flow into the chute and to the bag system without the aid of a dedicated blower. All this air needs to filter out the bag pores but will happily exit via the bag opening if it isnt well sealed to the grass catcher system. This may be less of an issue if your mower deck does not produce a lot of air flow to the grass catcher, however that may lead to frequent clogging issues.

My mower has the typical ZTR "engine at the rear" so it is doubly important that the leaf catching system does not blow grass/leaves/dirt out the opening at the front of the bag, because the dust will clog the engine intake air filter and the leaves will accumulate on the cooling fan intake screen and that can cause the engine to overheat.

I initially tried the "over the hood" attachment method from the first video but could not get the bag to seal up well enough so the engine and I were quickly covered in leaves.

Next I tried the "under the hood" attachment as detailed in the second video. It was a huge improvement. It is important to observe and carefully follow each step in the instructional video for this to work well. At first I did everything except I cinched up the bag before closing the hood, leaving the bag opening at the rear of the hood under the rear of closed hood and over the middle dual grass catcher bag bar. Attaching it this way resulted in leaves blowing onto the top of the bag, which would then accumulate and fall off in clumps when turning, or blowing back onto the engine if running downwind in a breeze. Once I changed to putting the hood down before cinching the bag and then tightening it up with the bag going over the hood locking mechanism (as shown in video), very little in the way of leaves and debris escapes the bag.

This thing is the real deal. Assembly was simple and it rakes our yard up really well, dumps easy as pie and works exactly like it's supposed to. Heavy duty and fairly heavy but made to last.

Spent about 30 minutes on assembly. Easy to follow pictograms. Operates perfectly. Very satisfied.

Come Fall..?I'm in love all over again.. With this handy little leaf sweep!

It only took about an hour to assemble. It was missing the support bar that is needed to keep clippings from falling out the front. Emailed Agri-Fab and they responded within a day. I had the part in less than 3 days after. Works well and stores without taking up too much space.

The first time I ordered this sweeper it came in damaged. The box was torn and the left wheel was bent out of place. (Not a very good shipping box). Amazon was quick to replace it. The second one had no issues. Instructions for putting it together were a little confusing but after a few tries I got it together. It works great, picks up grass clipping and small sticks. I have a sweet-gum tree that has prickly burs that cover my yard in the fall. It does well picking those up.

The sweeper seems to be able to pick up most things around my yard for leaves, grass and small twigs. Fall will tell the store if it is able to handle a lot of leaves.

To start, this will not work for everyone. If you have a lightly powered to a medium powered mower, I wouldn't recommend this product. This is especially true if you have a hilly lawn. Although, it's cheap to try, it may work. The bag gets heavy. I have an 18hp John Deere with a Kawasaki motor and I didn't have a problem. I can't imagine anything less than 14hp being advisable. I would absolutely NOT use this with a rear engine mower as steering would be compromised.

Also, you need to expect some "rigging" to be involved. Bungee cords and clamps are what I used. I'm a big guy and can tell you the bag probably weighs north of 100 pounds when 3/4 full. It seems to do well with leaves only btw. It may get some pine straw and debris but you should not expect this.

I do think a heavy duty zipper on the end would be helpful to assist with emptying.

Having said all of this, I have never moved more leaves in less time with this little of effort. If you can rig it up right, have a strong mower, an ideal lawn with ideal leaves, this is perfect.

Item is as stated. Works very well and I'm pleased. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is because it's a bit of a pain to unload the bag. the zipper is at one end and can get bunched up when trying to dump a full bag. The draw string actually works well. It will fall off if you get if full enough with wet leaves etc. It holds about 4-5 times the amount of the plastic bins that come with the bagger. For the price, you can't beat it!

My husband loves this leaf bag! He's been very pleased with the durability and how well it works. He's used it at least once a week for over 2 months now. We have an acre of land, with lots of trees. He normally fills the bag twice to get all the leaves up. The only improvements he has suggested are to add a zipper from bottom up to make it easier to release the leaves after pickup and to improve the fit of the drawstring on the bagger frame.

I was super excited to purchase this product and equally excited when it showed up on my doorstep sadly when you are excited to do yard work it is a crazy day. I enthusiastically put this on my riding lawnmower and put my 8 year old girl in the driver seat and sent her on her way as I'd begun to rack out all the bushes to get the leaves in the middle of the grass so she could easily pick them up then she decided to put the lawn mower in reverse and backed over my brand-new Leaf bag I don't remember if I cried or not but for the purpose of this review no tears were shed. After receiving this product and seeing how well it worked for the 36 seconds that we used it. I got an old painter's tarp and used my new Leaf bag with two very large holes cut in it and made me a new Leaf bag. love the idea, love the usability! Very good product works great.

This is great if you can rig it up with some sort of support for your chute. The problem on my JD x324 is that I wasn't able to use my bagger rack to mount this bag. By just sinching it on the bagger chute and letting it drag, it becomes heavy very quickly, pulling down on the chute tube. I ended up rigging a piece of plywood under my seat, that extends out to the tube. This helps support the tube as the bag gets heavier.

Material is durable and breathable. Overall it has saved me time with my .5 acre lawn, and I have recommended it to others.

The lawn sweeper works well and helped clean up the lawn after thatching the lawn.

Does exactly what it is supposed to do. Gumballs (from sweet-gum tree) were my biggest problem and this works well (not perfect) with them. Like everything you have to assemble this was a challenge, but not an unexpected one. Shipping was no problem, found it by my door in exactly when it was expected.

I give it a 5 star for performance, but assembling it was somewhat difficult. The holes were either too small, or didn't line up correctly. I have a large yard with lots of trees, so I needed this to pick up leaves, branches, sweetgum balls, etc. It works just like I wanted.

Assembly of this lawn sweeper for the most part was straight forward. Picks up both grass and leaves well. The only down side is the hopper bag, its a little fragile. The sides are made of what appears to be a tarp material. During assembly I had a seam start to unravel. I contacted Agri-Fab regarding the seam and they immediately sent another hopper bag. Great customer service. Would I recommend this particular lawn sweeper? Quite Possibly. The price was right. I'll have to see how many seasons this last.

Too many parts, too complicated a machine to assemble with cartoon pictures. Took a while, and I made mistakes.As a grass clippings sweeper it is hard to learn when is the best time to use it. Grass is too heavy and wet for the brushes to pick up on the same day that you mow. Best to sweep the next day. If you wait until the clippings brown, they form a mat which the brushes can't break up, and many of the clippings sink between the growing blades of grass where the brushes can't reach them. Don't even think about trying to sweep atop grass that needs mowed. Kind of worried now about how it will handle leaves..........

Wonderful equip. gave it 4 stars because it lacked a guard to keep leaves and yard debree from flying up on you. My husband is a welder and fabricator and easily fixed this but not all people could. most come with a guard. Maybe it was left out?? But the overall working is great.

ok

It worked well and as advertised, speeding up my leaf cleanup project yesterday tenfold. The bag withstands dragging without a problem, but the seam in which the drawstring is housed tore open upon my first tightening before I even used it. I suspect mine was defective, but it still worked for leaf cleanup. I'd recommend it with the understanding that mine was probably just defective.

Good quality material and fit very easily over the bagger hood of my Husqvarna. I was disappointed with it after that, though. The bag filled unevenly and required very frequent adjustment to keep from clogging the exhaust chute. After some trial and error I was able to fill the bag without stopping the mower to clear clogs. But then I found that the full bag was too heavy and unwieldy to empty without excessive effort. I eventually abandoned this product and just went back to raking my leaves onto a cheap $6 tarp and hauling them that way.

It would be a lot easier to empty the bag if it was like a sleeping bag with a zipper so you can just unzip the whole thing to empty the bag it might be something to consider to.upgrading to a new bag style

Third time I used it I cut the corner too close of my trailer and it caught and ripped. Not the most durable. Giving a 3 since it was my fault for getting too close. It is good and as described overall. Holds a lot more than the one I used before.

I bought this to pick up pine cones like the adversiment said but it doesn't work very well.

Dies a good job collecting leaves, but fills up fast. Also not the easiest thing to assemble. Directions were only simple pictures and I found it difficult to follow.

A bit difficult to put together, doesn't sweep as much of the grass as expected. Hard to adjust height. You'll need longer rope to dump box without getting off mower or other tractor..

Just finished assembling this unit. I usually I have not trouble with assembly, but the manual provided with this product is one of the worst, if not the worst. I have not actually tried the united. I hope that it performs better than the assembly manual.

Assembly instructions could be improved. When I completed the assembly and started to use the unit, parts fell out of the right wheel gear drive. Luckily I hadn't left the garage yet and I was able to find the parts. I determined that the wheel was not properly tightened at the factory. I was able to make the repair but if the parts had been lost I would have been pissed. Reading other reviews I don't see a lot of complaints. My problem was poor QC at the factory. Not acceptable.

It seems like it does the job okay. However, the assembly instructions are pretty unclear, include very few actual words, and the pictures aren't that helpful. I had to take some things apart a couple different times and try them a different way. the rope that came with it for dumping isn't long enough for you to reach it while on the lawn tractor, so you have to get off anyway or buy a new rope.

Bag is too heavy to empty when it's full.
I am 69 and could not handle it alone.

First time I used it and went to empty the bag I saw that the stitching on bag was coming apart.

Will hold a lot of clipping and leaves, but any semi tight turns and it ends up under the back wheel. If you have a large area and can execute wide turns it would probably be ok.

Nice size but difficult to keep attached to lawn tractor. As a result, we just use it to dump leaves captured by existing bins so we don't have to take as many trips back to much pile. It would be better if had zipper at end for easy emptying. I don't recommend. Probably better solutions out there.

Difficult to keep on the chute. I have a Cub Cadet with 8 in chute. As soon as the bag gets a little full, it disconnects from the chute. I wrap the cinching cord around several times but it still doesn't help. I would not buy again.

This seemed like a dream to pick up leaves without raking tIme saver right. Our nightmare started as we took a look at the assembly instructions. No words just drawings that make very little sense. To top it off we bought the detatcher that was suggested to go with it, no it didn't. Save yourself the headache find a store that sells them already assembled with attachments that fit with it. So 2 hours later and we got it rigged up ready to go.... it's not as time saving as we thought.

The bag is very cheesy construction. I replaced my old sweeper with a new one and had to replace the bag after one season. The replacement bag lasted only one season too. I'm not buying another one.

Went to assemble and the design wasnt optimal. The sweeper head blocks some of the assembly bolt location. Was 75% through and discovered it was missing the 12 lock pins, had to go to Lowe's and buy replacements. The 12 cubic foot capacity is deceptive, has to be cleared after about 2 cubic feet. Overall, disappointing.

Would like To see stiffer and fuller brushes, then maybe more leaves and debris would be picked up. After I adjust the level of the brushes, the bouncing of the bin across the yard causes the brushes to fall to the lowest setting. This is annoying and frustrating. It does pick up leaves alright , though I have to make SEVERAL passes through to get leaves picked up. A bit disappointed with this product

This works ok new but once it rusts even a little you better get ready to buy a new one or for days worth of headaches trying to fix it. (I never did) It was not even usable for me after the wheels stopped turning and it completely locked up. When it worked, the wheels barely got any traction and in turn didn't really pick anything up. The fabric for the encasing is not durable and getting replacements is a royal pain as well as trying to put it on in the first place. If you have a giant facility for storage of this thing and a maintenance guy standing by, then for all means this is perfect for you. If you need something rugged/dependable that can take a little abuse then this will certainly give you pains several months in.

Save you money pay a couple of kids to rake the leaves. Its big and takes up a lot of room. It's great if you want to pick up the grass clumps left behind . But as for leaves most of the leaves blow right over the top and back on the lawn. I can only hope to find someone to make an offer for mine in our yearly yard sale.

Does a great job of holding leaves. Does not tie well to bagger housing or the mulching tube. Had to add bungie cords just to get it to stay in place and that doesn't work all the time. tears from dragging on the ground. Have only used it twice and it already has burn holes from the heat coming off of the exhaust. Basically an over sized,over priced pillow case with drawstrings.

Bag material is not much more than a laundry bag grade cloth. Bag cough ta nub on a root and ripped the first time I used it. I placed a tarp below it to act as a slide along the ground. Next problem, lifting bag into trailer. Too heavy to lift. Went back to the tractor bags. Bad investment on my part! Don't waste your money,as a laundry bag is as strong.

Nice idea but this did not work on our Cub Cadet mower. The bag kept falling off with even the smallest amount of leaves in it.

First time I used it, the clamps that hold the bag onto the mower chute broke. I fixed them, then the bag became half full and went underneath the mower and tore the bag to shreds. Just not worth it

Had to return as the seam began ripping on the first use and the tie clasps seemed cheap. This product was not build to last. I love the bagging system in general, and it saves tons of time and effort. It was actually quicker than mowing the lawn in the summer. But the material seemed cheaper and the seams were not sewn well at all. I retuned this and bought a different company's bag. Although I only used that one once so far too, I can tell the material and seams are stronger. Plus, that other brand included a patch in case it ripped and came with instructions.

Incredibly cheaply made. DO NOT buy this product. You have been warned.

This product has been a disappointment from the first day. Assembly was difficult with unclear instructions and flimsy construction. The first time I used this to pick-up lawn clippings I realized that you had a drive almost full throttle to pick-up any waste. This caused the wheels to come-off the rim. After several wheel repairs, the brushes rattled free and got bent in the housing. I give up, no product is worth all this effort! I'm going back to the rake...

Came in many pieces, took a very long time to put together. Didn't have all of the parts. Didn't fit our mower & no easy ways to empty. Not happy with it at all.

It is very difficult to figure out how to put it together correctly. My husband and i spent about 2 1/2 hours putting it together only to discover one of the first parts was put on backward. It is now sitting in the garage waiting for us to feel up to taking it apart and attempting the assemly again. May never get it together properly because the instructions aren't very clear. I'd recommend people buy one already assembled to spare themselves a great deal of aggravation.

This product for the price is to cheaply made and the instructions are useless, if you buy make sure you have some small nuts and bolts to replace the plastic keepers in bag frame they broke before I was even finished assembling, the bag material is way to thin to last any length of time, overall this is junk I would never recommend buying.

Agri-Fab and Amazon should be embarrassed to sell this inferior product. We bought this to replace the same sweeper we purchased years ago because that one was a good sweeper but nearly 15 years old. This sweeper came in so many small parts with only picture directions to put it together that were useless. Cheaply made and flimsy. The plastic type bag ripped on both sides the second time we used it. We have already gorilla taped it. The bag itself is small and the sides are so low everything tumbles out almost immediately so you can only pick up a small amount at a time. Obviously a piece of crap from the moment we opened the box. Sorry we didn't send it right back. Save your money, add a couple bucks and purchase a quality product elsewhere.