51621 UltraPlus Leaf Blower Vacuum, Variable-Speed (up to 250 mph) with Metal Impeller, 12 amp,Red

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Superior blowing and mulching proven by controlled laboratory testing.This bag is designed to capture leaf particles not dust. Product needs air flow to work properly.3 in 1 Machine - Powerful Blower, High Speed Vacuum, Leaf Shredder340 CFM blow mode and 405 CFM Vac mode3 in 1 Machine - Powerful Blower, High Speed Vacuum, Leaf Shredder
Powerful up to 250 mph degree. 350 CFM blow mode and 410 CFM Vac mode
Vacuum tube, bottom-zip bag, cord storage hook, shred-all shred ring and time-saving oscillating tube included; Extension cord Sold separately
Variable speed control for better control in both blower and vac mode
This bag is designed to capture leaf particles not dust. Product needs air flow to work properly.
3 in 1 Machine - Powerful Blower, High Speed Vacuum, Leaf Shredder
340 CFM blow mode and 405 CFM Vac mode
3 in 1 Machine - Powerful Blower, High Speed Vacuum, Leaf Shredder

• William M. Pittman

  This was my first blower vac. Didn’t know what to expect. Blown away, pun intended. Vac has more power than expected. Mulcher does great job. Machine can clog if you take too big of a bite of wet leaves but easy to clear and get going again. Not light but manageable for 78 year old male. Highly recommend!

• Debbie Dick

  Very powerful, it is great and made getting my leaves gathered easy.

• Brian S.

  In short this Toro 51621 blows strong, shedder is very useful, it’s a bit heavy, but overall I like it and would buy again. Long term durability is TBD. I have only had this unit for 2 weeks but have used it about 6 times for spring clean-up at my house and my daughter house. The blower is strong and easily pushes the leaves around. The vacuuming function is only fair and leaves need to be within about 3 inches of the tube to be sucked up into the shredder and deposited into the attached bag depending on how wet they are. Naturally dry days and leaves make the job easier so pick a good day. The key is the shredder, it is awesome. This unit shreds the leaves so small that I’ll say it reduces the bags required from about 4 to only 1. Plus the nice Toro bag has a handy zipper on the bottom that makes putting the leaves in the bag super easy. Just beware of the weight of the bag because it will get too heavy before it gets too full. This is the best and most useful feature of this unit. I wouldn’t get a blower without this vacuuming and shredding feature. The hardest part of leaf cleanup was always the bagging and with the attached bottom zipper bag dumping process and shredder it is much easier and faster. I will say that this unit is a bit heavy and I wish it had some sort of shoulder strap to carry the bulk of the weight. This is especially a problem when vacuuming where you need to hold up the unit a bit higher. The weight is less of an issue when blowing but still an issue because this thing is heavy. There is a shoulder strap for the attached bag when vacuuming but that is for the weight of the leaves in the bag not for the weight of the blower/sucker main unit. But it is worth it. The best process is to blow your leaves into a pile then change over to the vacuum/shredding set-up and shred it all up standing in one spot. The changeover is relatively easy consisting of snapping on a blowing tube then removing then snapping on a sucking tube and the retention bag for the shredded leaves. There is some sort of safety switch that prevents the unit from turning on unless the tubes are fully snapped in which is a good thing, so watch for that if the unit doesn’t turn on. Where I had the hardest time using this was when I was walking around my bushes & landscaping with the vacuuming & shredding set-up avoid blowing my wood chips all over. As I said the vacuuming function is not strong (blowing is strong) and the leaves need to be within 3 inches or less to be sucked up even when dry. The unit gets very heavy when doing this since you have to hold it very close To leaves but still high enough to avoid sucking up the wood chips, so you can’t let it touch the ground. My arms hurt from doing this and I had to turn it off every few minutes to give my arms a break. The impeller on the unit is metal by the way so it looks to be durable. It’s not meant for sticks but it will shred up very small sticks. You will hear any sticks or wood chips it can’t handle bouncing around in there. When I heard that I would just turn the unit off for a second stopping the suction and allowing it to fall out the tube then turning it back on. This turned out to be a long review but I think it’s what you need to know. This may sound odd to say after a few of my complaints, but I love this blower vacuumer shredder. The vacuumer shredder is a game changer and I could never live without it now that I have it.

• Old Guy JJ

  I've used several gas-powered blowers around my property (three acres with over 200 trees and bushes), but my overall go-to favorite over the past several years was my Toro Ultra 51599 for the area directly around my house--40+ trees and bushes all dropping leaves in my gutters, rock borders, deck and patio. That beast got some hard duty--cubic yard after cubic of leaves, dropped onto rocks and down window wells, used as a blower for bonfires--and never failed until the day I accidentally smacked it against one of my stone pillars on my porch and shorted out the motor. Dang! Now to find another one. Well, the 51599 is no longer around, but here's this 51621 UltraPlus. Well, you and I know that a new model does not necessarily mean a better model. A lot of times it just means built cheaper. Never fear. This 51621 is better than my old 51599, and I'm sure you can tell, I loved my old Ultra.What I like in my new UltraPlus is that it still has a metal impeller--critical when you're vacuuming leaves out of 3/4" rock, like I do. However the vanes on the impeller are a different design, and it appears to me the both the blowing and the vacuuming functions are enhanced. You can really tell when using the variable speed control. The air movement is more precise throughout the range than it was in my Ultra.The Shredz-All shred ring. Right. Just another gimmick. Wrong! It actually works. The vacuum tube fits tighter onto the power unit for a better vacuum, and that little blue toothed ring does shred leaves finer, so I can get more into the bag before I have to dump it. Speaking of dumping, the zipper is on the bottom, now, rather than in the back, so it's easier to dump, too. Wow!Another feature I really, really appreciate is the new cord lock that's molded in as part of the power unit's body. We all overextend our reach, or get the power cord wrapped around a bush, or something. When that happened to my old 51599, the cord would come unplugged, no matter how I had the cord and unit knotted together. That doesn't happen with this cord lock. And it's big enough to fit a large diameter 14-gauge extension cord (which I highly recommend, so you can keep your 12 amps supplied out to a 100 feet).I didn't use the oscillating nozzle, because I wasn't blowing leaves off a wide area (like my driveway) this Fall. I plan to use that next Summer, though, cleaning grass clipping and debris off my drive. I can't wait to see if it's a cool as the rest of this blower. I also didn't use the concentrator nozzle for my corners. It's a little time-consuming installing it (I think) for the few corners I have. All I did was adjust the speed control while using the regular blowing tube, and it worked just fine for not over-blowing the leaves. As a matter of fact, the control is precise enough, you can adjust for different sizes and shapes of corners.One final note, the decorative rock I have around my house is mostly 3/4" Mountain Gravel. Mountain Gravel, looks great because of all the different shapes and textures, but the same thing that makes for great decoration makes it miserable to clean. Leaves and stuff really work their way into all those nooks and crannies. They vacuum works great on this. For the most part, full vacuum sucked out the debris without dislodging my rock. And in some of the few places where it was beginning to move the rock (3/4" also means 1/2" or less at times), all I needed to do was adjust the speed down a bit. Again, precise control.I'm really happy with my UltraPlus and the improvements Toro made to their already excellent Ultra. They must have employed a legitimate focus group when they designed their changes.

• gbk4321

  My 20+ year old Toro model 51599 had one of its bushings come loose and it wore out. You cannot purchase new bushings, so I purchased this Toro model 51621 UltraPlus Leaf Blower Vacuum. My new and old Toro leaf blowers are basically the same, except the new one has more power and some new features. Both of these blowers do a very good job on aiding with my leaf removal from 4 giant 30+ year old pin oaks and 2 giant 30+ year old maple trees. The Toro blowers do what they promise.Here is the review ranking basis that I have adopted:⭐️1 star - I don't recommend it at all, poor quality.⭐️⭐️ 2 stars - I don't recommend it, it has multiple faults.⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars - It's passable, It has some faults but the quality is ok for what it is.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars - Product quite acceptable, it does what it promises.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars - Product that I totally recommend.

• Redwolf

  Last year I had to pay someone $350 to collect the leaves in my yard. This was in December when they were eager for work, and after heavy negotiating. This year I wanted to find a more sustainable solution. I decided to use a blower/vac in combination with the LeafPro by Worx. Question was, which blower/vac and can I actually get this system to work? After a lot of research and video watching, it became clear the Toro UltraPlus was the best option. The CFM and MPH balance was best of available blower/vacs. I was very concerned there would be enough suction to collect all the leaves easily, but that needed to be balanced with the blowing aspect. The trivacs have higher CFM but the MPH are low. So would it blow well enough at a distance? The Sunjoe had slightly better CFM than the Toro but much worse MPH. The Toro impeller design looked way better than the Sunjoe too at grinding. I was thinking about the Worx Turbine Fusion but people said the impeller grinded too much and the dust was terrible. The other issue was connecting this thing to the LeafPro. I read the "universal adapter" could slip off and I should try to get the older version which had plastic connections specifically for other brand models (which turned out to be totally unavailable). Maybe it was just better to get a Worx blower instead? In the end, the reviews of the Toro were all so strong I decided to go for it and risk the LeafPro not working with it. Thankfully, the connection worked perfectly and was really tight with no real risk of coming off! The next issue was what to use on the other end to collect the leaf mulch. Most people were connecting the LeafPro to a garbage can. I didn't have one right sized for use with 55 gallon trash bags and didn't want to buy one unnecessarily. I saw someone had used this system with a Leafmate paper bag funnel and it worked for them, so I decided to try with the Leafmate designed for varying sized plastic trash bags. It also worked brilliantly! I was able to keep it on its side at first to collect the mulch and then after it was nearly full I turned it upright to collect the rest. The Leafmate just slides up the bag to hold the opening and connection to the LeafPro. This system was able to reduce a 20-30 bag job to less than 5, and what took 3 people half a day of tiring work took me 1.5hrs of blowing and 2 hours of vacuuming and I was not tired at all. These three items cost me $140... a total win!Tips:-Dont try to suck up too much, the vac will clog-The Toro can handle sticks and other non-leaf debris you may encounter (see photo), but it's better to remove them from the pile by hand as they can create clogs-When you do get a clog, try turning off the vac and just tap the tube against the ground the dislodge whatever is in there. Turn it back on and half the time it'll be able to suck whatever was in there out-Point the exit hose of the LeafPro away from you and downwind. A moderate amount of dust comes out of the mesh cover.-The weak point in the system if the LeafPro mesh cover. It will stay on the Leafmate pretty well because it has a good rim it can wrap itself around, but mulch will collect in the mesh around the rim and it can get pulled off. Collect your leaves close enough to the bag and you won't pull it off by mistake (happened to me on the last bag, luckily it's easy to just revacuum up the debris).

• SeaKeithRUn

  I like this blower except for one thing.Toro has chosen not to sell replacement parts for the variable power switch. It is the one thing I have noticed people have issues with. Once the switch no longer works, the entire device is garbage. The switch unit is really easy to replace assuming you had a working switch to replace it with. With all of the landfill issues we have, it really bothers me that this company will sell several replacements parts to the external blower but not the one thing that goes bad in the unit.

• David Bump

  I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it handles large leaves; I was expecting to only be able to use this with normal sized leaves, but it sucks our dinner-plate sized catalpa leaves right up and turns them into a fine powder. Vacuum end for scale with some of the catalpa leaves and the resulting powder in a garbage bag. It's a massive reduction in volume of bagged leaves, and I think you could just re-use the powder in your yard, though maybe just before or during precipitation, given how fine it is, otherwise a light breeze is going to coat your fence/house/neighbor/dog in concentrated allergens. I was also happy with the length of the vacuum tube; I'm 6'2" with a 34" inseam, and it seemed like a fine height, though I was not using the shoulder strap on the bag (and emptying it when it got heavy, around half full). The other nice surprise was that while it picked up leaves and even most of the catalpa pods, it did not pick up dried dog poop (from a small dog) hidden under the leaves. I don't really want to turn that into a fine powder, so that was a win. I briefly tried the blower, and it's incredibly powerful, but I don't want to move leaves to a different spot in my yard, I want them in a bag, and the denser the better. However, it was reasonable for getting them out of some crevices around landscape timbers and window wells for later pickup by the vacuum. I do plan to use it to clear gutters with Toro's gutter kit, and the power is quite promising for that use.

• Studio Orange

  Only some will understand the title of this review.So let me spell it out: A combination leaf blower / mulcher is like a cheat code for life.Raking my back yard typically goes something like this...I go out and buy leaf bags. I'll generally buy three packs, for a total of 15 bags. I assume that I'm over-estimating because my back yard isn't really that big. How could I possibly need more?Spend an entire afternoon raking leaves. Arms feel like rubber, but I'm really only half way done. Now to start bagging. I tell the neighbor he is welcome to use any of my left over bags.By bag 12 I realize the error of my ways.Cursing the universe for the invention of Fall, I go back to the store for more bags. Of course they are sold out. So now I'm faced with the real moral dilemma of either going store-to-store to try to find more bags, or giving up, leaving the remaining piles of leaves to the whims of fate, and going inside for a glass of whiskey.Either way, I'm thinking I could just solve all of my problems if I get a chainsaw and go on a tree assassination mission throughout the neighborhood so I don't have to deal with this next year.After a friend brought over his gas-powered blower so I could clear off my driveway and patio, I realized where my life had gone wrong and how I could remedy it.I decided to opt for this corded blower. It claims to reduce the amount of bags you'll need dramatically. "Ok, little guy, you keep telling yourself that," I'm thinking condescendingly as I go ahead and buy three packs of lawn bags. I figure as long as it saves me the task of raking, I'll consider myself ahead of the game.I make 4 large piles of leaves in the yard. It takes all of about 15 minutes. Already this thing is my hero. And now it's the moment of truth. I switch over to the vacuum / mulcher.Now, you might think that what I'm about to tell you is an exaggeration. I must be lying. But I am not. I consider this year's leaf bombardment to be at least typical, and had I gone the traditional route of cursing and tears, I fully expect that it would have again taken three or more packs of bags.This thing mulched my entire yard down into THREE BAGS. Not packs. BAGS.Even as I was closing up the final (third) bag of leaves, I couldn't believe what had just happened. My neighbor was already 6 bags into his yard and had barely put a dent into his piles. That used to be me, pal. That used to be me.I had just Konami coded my yard.Ok, so if you've read this far, things to know:1. I'm happy with this unit overall so far, but I've deducted a star because it *is* a tad bit clunky to use. Switching out between the blower tools and the mulching tools is slightly awkward. Also, the cord management isn't the best. There is a "hook" you can wrap the cord around, but because of the smooth plastic and the way it's angled, the cord still likes to slip out and if you're not careful you can unplug yourself -- not the end of the world, but annoying.2. One thing I *DO* like about this is how much quieter it is that the gas powered units I've been around. Don't get me wrong, this thing is still like holding a mini-jet engine in terms of noise...If you've spent your life attending concerts, this may not be that big of a deal to you. Otherwise, I wouldn't consider you some sort of weirdo if you wanted to use ear protection with this thing.3. Sort of like my German Shepherd, this thing can eat too fast if you don't keep an eye on it. You'll know when the mulcher takes too large of a bite. The suction will stop and it'll start whining like you just took away its favorite toy. Just detach and unclog the tube and don't be so impatient. You'll be fine.One final thought: I've really only tackled my yard once. It's doubtful I'll have need to use it again this year (but I'll likely let some friends use it on their yards). So I can't really speak yet as to the longevity /reliability of this unit.Update: It's been two years. You know, when that honeymoon phase is supposed to have faded and now you're actually willing to express your annoyance when the dishwasher isn't loaded the way you like (e.g., the efficient way)? Well, forget the fear that the luster will have faded. This unit is still going strong. Even scored some bonus points helping out the neighbor across the street. He had a similar unit, different brand, and marveled at how much better this one functioned. And let's face it, who doesn't like scoring some one-up points in the neighborhood? It's the little victories that count.

• Todd Haskins

  I bought this Toro after trying one a relative has and it is so much more powerful than my old Toro. It is bigger and heavier but that is okay. The 3 handles are easy to grip. My wife used a dog leash as a shoulder strap and the blower worked well for her. I thought the fancy tip that is designed to disperse the wind power to save on the wrist side to side motion was a good idea but in actuality I think it creates a vibration in the machine that doesn't feel good. I took it off and back in the box it went. I do like the dial feature and hopefully it will last. The Toro my relative has, the dial stopped working so the blower is on full blast all the time with no off. She has had it for maybe 4 years? Toro does not make a replacement switch. Overall a very nice product that works well.