WORX 12 Amp Turbine Electric Leaf Blower for Daily Leaf Removal, WG520 | 600CFM & 110MPH Airflow, 2-Speed Control for Daily Yard Debris Clearing, Corded

This leaf blower is a beast ! Enough power to tackle any job and super light. weight. A shoulder strap could be helpful but does not detract from its performance. Good value for the money. Have used Milwaukee battery power blower and it worked well.but you need battery back ups. I was hesitant to switch to a power cord but I’m glad I did. Would recommend.

INITIAL REVIEW:Advertising:The blower looks exactly as it does in the photos (despite the cheesy photo shopped images). I do not have any special equipment to test the 600CFM claim, but it seems pretty powerful from what I've tested thus far. All the features, which I'll go into further detail below, are also exactly as described.Shipping & Item condition:Arrived on time in a large box and in good working condition with no damaging.Price:$45.93 - Pretty reasonable considering the competition can reach upwards of a few hundred dollars.Build Quality/Durability:This blower is made from durable hard plastics. It makes it pretty lightweight when you're holding it at your side and sweeping from side to side. The listing states that it's 6.4 pounds and it certainly feels about that weight. I was able to use it for 10-20 minutes and not experience any fatigue unless i was trying to lift it up. This is just an initial review, so time will tell if it will withstand multiple years of use.Performance:Holy cow does this thing blow! (and I mean that in the good way). There is quite a bit of force that is exerted. So much so, that it surprised me when I turned it on the first time and noticed the "kick" on my hand. It's somewhat loud, so I'd recommend wearing ear protection if you're going to be using it for long periods of time. That being said, I've owned vacuums and small blowers that have just about the same amount of loudness, so I'd place this on par.I'm glad that I opted for the corded version instead of the battery one. Sure the cords are annoying, but I feel that the battery wouldn't last long due to the output it requires. That being said, I don't have an overly huge lawn, so an extension cord works just fine for me. If you've got a much bigger area to cover, I would consider a gas-powered blower. I simply don't trust the battery-powered blowers would last long enough for you, and the cords could be quite the hassle if you're having to walk pretty far out.Design/Features:I like that the nozzle has a large opening rather than a small one. I feel like that does a better job and pushing the leaves and grass out of the way than one that has a more concentrated area (despite the fact that it would exert more force). I also use it to blow out the dust and dirt from my garage. That saves me a ton of time vs having to sweep and kick up dust everywhere. I haven't tried using it to dry my car yet, but I'd imagine that it would work pretty well for that application.A feature I love is the quick and easy dial that you can use to adjust the outputting force. Sometimes I want to blow it at maximum speed to get all the grass clippings off the driveway, and other times I want to simply clean off a chair or something light without having to lift it up into space.The cord retainer is a nice feature. Without it, I found myself accidentally unplugging my extension cord quite a bit.A small touch, but the handle is angled upward, so when you're holding your arm down in a relaxed position, the blower is angled in the opposite direction (downward) which is nice. I don't need to "push" the blower down at an angle, thus causing forearm strain.I don't use it, but I like that the nozzle can be removed for more compact storage if need-be.Lastly, I'd say that I honestly just plain like the way it looks. It's cool that you can see the turbine working through the transparent orange plastic area, and it has a nice color scheme and graphics.Overall:I'm pretty impressed thus far. This guy is cheap, light, and powerful. It's fun to use. So much so that I find myself looking for leaves to blow, or dirt to move out of the way just so I can spend more time with it. I would definitely recommend this blower if you have a small to average sized yard.1-year UPDATE:I've had this leaf blower for over a year now, and it still performs fantastically. It makes quick work of my grass and leaf clippings and doesn't mess around. It's one of the better products in my lawn care maintenance line-up, so I still highly recommend!

This WORX WG520 12 Amp Turbine 600 Electric Leaf Blower is an excellent, and powerful product that does as advertised and completely blasts away whatever it's pointed at.I got this product mostly to use as a drying aid when washing my cars, but also to just to clear off the backyard patio and blow out the garage occasionally. For this use-case this product has been absolutely stellar.I 3D printed a smaller nozzle that has a more directed, concentrated flow of air for when I'm using this to dry off my car and it has worked much better than the standard long nozzle, I saw some for sale before deciding to DIY with my own 3D printer, and it was a great way to save some money and make this even more effective at car drying.The power this has at full speed is absolutely incredible, it almost feels like it's about to fly away and I have to really clamp down on gripping it. This isn't for the weak of heart, controlling this without banging it against your car will take some time to get used to especially if you aren't a frequent gym goer.This has worked for everything I've needed to use it for and the price was great as well for this level of performance. It may not be as portable as a cordless blower, but it is certainly far more powerful than any cordless blower I've used in the past. The one thing I'll mention is make sure you have a good heavy duty extension cord to power this, 12 awg would be ideal especially if you're using a longer extension cord, you certainly don't want to burn out the motor by starving this thing of power with a 16 awg cord or something like that.Overall, I'm very impressed by this product and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an insanely powerful blower, this thing is like holding on to a jet engine. 5/5 stars.

Great product,powerful and not heavy.

I have been looking for a strong electric leaf blower for this season's great leaf roundup. I have used corded and cordless blowers and their less powerful cousins "sweepers" for years. The last few years I've been using the Black and Decker LeafHog blower/mulcher. It's been a persistent pain in the butt ever since I got it, but it consistently gets higher reviews than any of the other mulcher/blower combos. After wrestling with the attachments for 30 minutes trying to convert from mulcher to blower and then another 15 minutes going back to mulching mode, I decided I needed a more powerful and dedicated blower so I could just use the B&D for mulching alone. An online comparison test ranked this WORX model the highest, and now I see why.Leaf blowers are tricky to compare without actually using them firsthand. Do you trust the ratings on the box? Which is more important, CFM or air velocity? How can you tell how easy it is to use? What about ergonomics? That's why you're reading reviews.Power: This is MUCH more powerful than the B&D LeafHog. At full speed, this easily doubles the straight-line performance of the B&D I own. It has a much larger opening for the tube, but the air being forced out seems to be moving the leaves a lot better. Even wet, pancaked on leaves caught against the curb that the B&D couldn't budge moved with ease once I got the WORX on the job. I can't compare it to a gas powered blower, but if you have a yard that a 150' or less power cord can easily reach, I can't imagine needing any more than this. Even for the BIG piles.Design/Ergonomics: I haven't weighed them, but this feels much lighter than the B&D and is much better balanced. The B&D is nose-heavy, and the handle on top makes it a little tougher and more fatiguing to handle for long periods of time. The B&D has a on/off and speed knob within reach of the tips of my fingers below the handle on the main housing, but the WORX has a thumb-controlled switch that is slightly superior and permits smooth adjustments of power from minimum to maximum. The WORX is also much easier to assemble and likely would not require disassembly in the future unless for storage, whereas the B&D becomes impossible to disassemble after a few uses because the joints get full of dust and grit and do not permit nozzle pieces to slide onto each other. The one minor WORX design issue is that the air intake is on the back of the unit and air flows straight through. This is great for moving the air, but it also means that it tends to suck your shirt/jacket up against the rear grill every time you switch hands or swing the unit in front of yourself. It's a minor complaint, and easy to get used to, but the B&D has a downward-facing air intake which avoids this problem entirely.Noise: This unit is considerably quieter than the B&D LeafHog I have. Though not whisper quiet, and not quiet enough to carry on a conversation over, it's still my quietest blower, even compared to my little sweepers (a corded Toro and a cordless Ryobi). It's on par with a vacuum cleaner, I would say, whereas the B&D verges on needing earplugs.Build quality: This seems pretty simple in design and the housing is fairly rugged plastic. I don't think there's a whole lot to go wrong with this unit, so I suspect it will last many, many years.Downsides: Other than the aforementioned intake placement sucking in your shirt/jacket (not dangerous, just annoying), the only real shortcoming is that this is not a dual-function mulcher and blower. Due to the design of the blower, I don't think it ever could be. Thus you would need a separate mulching tool if you wanted to mulch and bag the leaves up. I'll be using the B&D for mulching exclusively and this WORX will permit me to collect the leaves in a pile first much more easily. One potential downside is that the exit nozzle of the WORX is pretty large compared to some blowers. Thus you won't get pinpoint control over the airflow. However, I found that simply dropping the airspeed/power down to minimum permitted me to easily blow leaves out of my flower beds without blowing away the mulch as well. Just keep a little distance between it and the target and you'll find it no problem.

This is one of the most powerful handheld electric blowers available. If you're serious about getting the job done quickly, this is the baseline. The next power tier is a gas backpack blower at five times the cost, then an even more powerful backpack, and then four-digit specialty tools from companies like Billy Goat. I bought the Worx because I didn't want to spend three hours raking a half-acre of grass.My trial run was an hour of continuous use with matted wet leaves and driveway sand. It fast became apparent that to be efficient, a blower has to move leaves without being on top of them. Blowing from six inches just makes everything scatter as piles build up. You end up crisscrossing the section you just cleared to deal with the strays. The further your breeze carries, the more direct the flight path of the leaves. This range, and the ability to scour stubborn leaves from the ground, comes from air speed (MPH). At the same time, though, you need a big enough wall of air to move more than one leaf at once. That comes from the size of your pipe opening. The two multiplied together determine your total air volume over a duration, or CFM (cubic feet per minute).In physics-land (with spherical cows and turbulence-free pipes, spared from the icy hand of marketing), CFM is the best measure of a blower's work capacity. MPH, you can change by varying the size of the pipe; a smaller pipe makes a smaller column of air moving at a faster speed (and more impressive advertising), which is why a lot of consumer-class blowers have tiny nozzles. (I'm looking at you, Sun Joe SBJ601E.) But there's a cost to adding MPH: it kills efficiency. The energy to move a volume of air goes up with the square of speed, so if you design your blower for 160 MPH, you'll get half the CFM of a 110 MPH blower from the same power. Something to mull if the blower is powered by a battery.Still, if you know either speed or CFM, and the size of the pipe, you can calculate the other (assuming the manufacturer isn't misleading you by quoting CFM at the fan and MPH at the end of the pipe). To get CFM from MPH and the radius of a round pipe, the calculation is (radius^2)*(mph)*(1.92). That's (1.69^2)(110)(1.92) for this blower's 110 MPH and 3 3/8" pipe, with the result arriving right at the rated number of 600 CFM.Anyway, the Worx has enough volume and speed to blow mounds of wet leaves from six feet and dry ones from ten or more. It's impressively powerful. I was switching arms every few minutes as they wore out from the backward force. Only some really baked-on mud would have benefited from a pipe-reducer attachment. Thanks to ape-like proportions or the secure fit of my spandex leaf-blowing onesie, clothing suction from the rear-directed air intake hasn't been a bother.ALTERNATIVES:I almost bought Toro's highly-rated "Ultra" combination blower to minimize bagging, but the vacuum functionality didn't seem that useful in videos. Maybe it'd be adequate to clean an enclosed deck area or a small yard with a scattering of dry leaves. For a larger yard, it looks like a time sink relative to a standalone mulcher. Likewise the blowing capacity, which, at 410 CFM, trails the Worx by quite a lot.Cordless tools were also tempting. There's a 20V DeWalt people seem to like that's rated at (a perhaps optimistic) 400 CFM. Because it's a similar fan design to the Worx, we can compare power directly. DeWalt's standard battery is 20V (or so we'll stipulate; it's closer to 18V under load) and 5 amp-hours, so we're looking at 100 watt-hours total output. 15 minutes of runtime translates to a sustained draw, best case, of 400W. Assuming 90% efficiency in the brushless motor, that's 360W actually moving air. (When new. Expect a performance drop over time and battery replacements by year three.)Compare this Worx: 12 amps at 120V equates to 1440 watts sustained, in this case feeding a 2-pole AC/DC motor that's perhaps 55% efficient. 12A is close to the maximum a device can reasonably expect from a typical 15A household socket. Even with nearly half of our power lost to heat and noise, the remaining 790W is over double what the DeWalt can manage. It's no coincidence that 600 CFM cordless blowers (Greenworks and Kobalt come to mind) have 80V/2.5Ah batteries with twice the DeWalt's capacity. Their runtime at full tilt? The same fifteen minutes, with three extra pounds to lug around from a chunk of lithium that costs more than the blower it attaches to.And what of gas blowers? The handheld versions have around 1 HP with CFM from 450 to 500. They're usually tuned for higher MPH than the Worx, so they're likely to be a little better with wet leaves and a little worse with dry ones. Backpack blowers up the displacement and make between 1.5 and 5 horsepower. The models that you might find on the back of a professional landscaper can manage nearly 1000 CFM with speeds around 200 MPH. That's a considerable difference, but you pay for it at the checkout and in weight: figure 10 pounds or so for a handheld (relative to 7ish for this unit, plus some cord) and 20 or more for a backpack.As of mid-2020, two other corded blowers are worth a hard look: Toro's F700 and Worx's WG521. The Toro arrived first in 2019 with a hefty 720 CFM rating, a bigger two-arm handle, and a better cord retention mechanism. The WG521 is the response: 800 CFM and 135 MPH (claimed) from a ~4" nozzle, albeit still intended for one arm. All three blowers are beastly and often close in price; pick whichever best channels your inner Tim Allen.ACCESSORIES:A motor this powerful benefits from a thick (low gauge) cord for longer runs. You lose a bit of performance with thinner cord. The generic orange 50-foot extension everyone has is 16-gauge. Feeding a 12A load for 50 feet, it'll have a voltage drop of about 5V. Heavier 14-gauge loses 2.5V on the same run, and industrial 12-gauge, only 1.5V. The scale is linear, so if you double up that 16-gauge cord for a 100-foot run, you'll lop off 10V.How's that play out here? From a short and fat cable (that the cheesy plastic strain-relief piece won't actually accommodate; just tie an overhand knot over the two plugs instead), we'd expect a 1440W draw (12A * 120V, or a bit less because the house wiring itself has some drop). Losing 5V drops the total to 1380W. That's about what I found when I tested the Worx with a watt meter.12ag / 3 ft = 1423W14ag / 100 ft = 1352W16ag / 50 ft = 1351W16ag / 50 ft + 14ag / 100 ft = 1280WWith the progressive thumb dial at the lowest setting, minimum draw was 260W.For shorter runs, disconnect extensions you don't actively need. Every cable sheds a percentage of the energy it carries to heat. As above, skinny cables lose more. Coiled on the ground and coupled with a high-load device like the Worx, they can build up enough heat to start melting insulation, which tends to cause sheepish expressions and insurance claims.This blower is also loud enough to merit hearing protection. On an A-weighted scale (approximating human hearing), measured outdoors from three feet, it makes 82 dB on low and 91 dB on high. Indoors or near a wall, volume jumps by 10 dB and subjectively doubles. While the sound character emulates a vacuum, my Shark only measures 72 dB indoors; you'd have to run over a rat's nest of lamp cords to make one this loud. Amazon has a number of comfortable muffs for less than a Jackson that'll keep your ears intact.You can find electric blowers with more toys, but few that'll get the job done as fast as this one. It's a bargain at the asking price. I'll update if I catch any reliability problems.

I have an old Craftsman that is not doing the job, so I was looking for something more powerful, but one that would not break the bank. I got this one "used" for about sixty bucks, so it's basically the price of a rental, given that I mostly use it in fall for collecting the foliage. You can immediately see what to expect just looking at the mouth of the blower: it's huge, compared to most other leaf blowers. And, indeed, it does have very high flow at great air speed, thus picking up leaves stuck in the grass, in crevasses, and tight spaces. You even have to be careful as it would also blow away the mulch cover from flower beds, and even small gravel from the walkways.As others have mentioned, the intake is not protected from all sorts of debris, so I decided to experiment (for the benefit of others), and added a screen (mosquito netting) to the grille, attaching it with cable ties and the screen's screws. So far - so good! It doesn't seem to reduce the airflow, and stops all leaves and flower fluff. Ultimately, the motor is still exposed (dust), and there's no way around that as nay further filtering would reduce the airflow and overheat the motor, but you can't expect some advanced fluid dynamic design solutions from a tool that costs seventy bucks. If there is one thing I wish they had solved in the intake design is the depth of the fins. Because of the very high airflow and the flat, shallow-finned intake grille, and because of how close you need to keep it to your body (it's not that light!), it would suck in anything, including your clothes. So, unless you want to wear Spanx, this would be an annoyance.Great tool, even if it fails after a year or two, it's cheap enough to buy another one. I highly recommended it.

Received the blower as expected in a timely manner. Have only used it for one day but pleasantly surprised. It is heavier but easily outperforms my previous corded blower. This is a large, simple, seriously powerful blower. No vacuum attachments, bags, etc. IMO the power is similar to gas powered units. Mine had a variable speed control which is very nice and for the power level it is unexpectedly quiet.Only one possible con to note, it is a 12A motor so a good heavy gauge extension cord is needed, especially for long runs.