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

If you’re looking for a great blower, leaf mulcher combo, this is a good one!! I’ve had mine for years now and it’s still working great. Reduces a huge pile of leaf into great garden mulch! I blew all the fir tree needles off the roof yesterday and it was very quick and thorough.

An amazing leaf crusher ( and blower ). Used only crusher part so far. It is very powerful. It picks up leaves like hungry dog picking up a piece of meat 😊. Crushed everything, dry or even some wet leaves, small branches. Metal impeller is the trick. Recently got burned by purchasing a leave crusher losing only plastic lines, by worx; Very inefficient. I’d highly recommend this to everyone.

This is one fine machine! Amazon literally had it on my front door step less than 24 hours after I purchased it. I read the negative reviews and can only assume they were written by whiney Democrats with nothing better to do than make stuff up and complain. I'm an old school guy who restores cars and uses all sortsa tools and machines in old school ways, i.e., no safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves, respirators, helmets, harnesses, plate armor, parachutes, sandbags, etc.... First of all, instructions are only for the simple minded. I don't even know why things come with them, they just take up room and have to be thrown away. Assembly. The assembly for this thing is so easy, it practically puts itself together. So anybody bitching about that probably needs help opening their own beer. They probably don't even drink beer. Noise. Its no damn louder than your lawn mower. The tulips complaining about the noise probably play Adam Lambert in their Nissan Leafs louder than this thing blows leaves. The Bag. Throw it in the garbage with the instructions. You don't even need it. Just keep the dog in the house and send the old lady and the kids to the mall so they don't get beaned by a walnut. Function. It blows and sucks better than Stormy Daniels. With the bag off, you can grind up leaves and small twigs to your hearts content and then just blow the debris outta the way without changing stuff around. Its heavy. Maybe for Adam Lambert its heavy. There are at least a dozen positions you can hold this thing in. Change your grip as needed. Why 4 stars? Because I'm not sure how rugged it is. It works like a champ, but the housing and attachments are all light gauge plastic. Stuffs snaps on and off with plastic clips and like everything else these days, its built to fail. Price and performance make this one a solid investment if you wanna not just blow leaves around, but pulverize em, too.

Toro 51621 UltraPlus Leaf Blower arrived this morning. I used it for a couple of hours. I have to say WOW. It performs way ahead of my expectations. I've had several of these little monsters and the only feature I used was the blower. While I was using them I thought, how much better is this than a raking. Just a little. This one is far better than a rake. It is a tad heavy but that is because it is built better than almost all consumer utility products. The metal impeller probably accounts for quite a bit of the weight but it is worth every ounce. Toro engineers did a great job of balancing the motor and impeller because the vibration really is minimal. That is my top interest because I have arthritis in my hands and the old blowers and weed trimmers caused me a great deal of pain. Not this one. The included oscillating attachment works better than I could imagine. I thought it would be a feature joke. Nope, it works quite well. Very clever guys. I thought the variable speed would be a feature joke too. Nope again. I have 10 feet of outside landscape steps to the driveway next to a big oak that likes to keep those stairs full of leaves. I turned the blower speed to about half. The old blower cause half of the leaves to rise and fall behind me. Not with lower velocity. Less dust to eat too. Sounds like I work for Toro. As a mostly retired engineer, I like it when the engineers win over the marketeers and get to deliver an excellent product. Toro has had their share of losers but they hit this one out of the park. Feb 6,2017. We got 5 inches of snow last night. I used this blower to clean off the outside stairway. Easier than a shovel and it cleans right down to the bone. The high speed air gets into places you could not shovel. I parked my car outside because the garage has stuff from a project on the floor. I used this thing to clean the car. It did a great job on windows and mirrors and won't scratch the paint. Of course, it will only work on powder snow, not the heavy, sticky stuff. If you know who Alton Brown is, I'm like him, I really dislike single purpose tools.

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.

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.

I've only used it once so far, but from what I can see this thing has serious vacuuming power ! I was pleasantly surprised. Its a tad bit heavy, and not for the faint of heart. My arms were tired after 40 minutes of use, but it did such a great job I don't mind the workout. It is also pretty loud so I'd recommend getting a set of hearing protection earmuffs, or earplugs at a minimum. I ***ALMOST*** bought the Worx Trivac and I am glad I did NOT. The Worx Trivac has a vacuum tube that is a bit short so if you are fairly tall you'd be bending down too much, which is why I continued looking. Saw a few reviews on the Toro, and what sold me on the Toro Ultraplus is the longer vacuum tube length and the heavy duty STEEL impeller blade. (Worx has a plastic or similar type impeller) This thing is TOUGH, and shredded my leaves and small yard debris into a fine granulated powder, and with my fairly small yard it picked everything up and the bag still had plenty of room left over ! If you have a really large yard I'd recommend getting something that will attach to your riding mower, but for small yards this Toro is fantastic ! I found the blower to be adequate, but nothing to get excited about, but I since I primarily bought it for the vacuum / mulcher bag I don't mind at all. The blower does get the job done so don't worry too much about that. The Toro UltraPlus Leaf Blower Vacuum ( model 51621) is HIGHLY Recommended ! I saw one reviewer that said this thing was cheaply built, but I Disagree ! It has thick heavy duty plastic tubes and everything seems pretty stout and heavy duty, especially the metal shredding impeller blade ! Its also cheaper than the Worx Trivac, which is another great selling feature.

I had a previous-model Toro leaf blower/vac, and I had some complaints with it. We used it only for vacuuming and mulching leaves, never as a blower. Ergonomically, it was too short for me (I'm 6' 2" tall) and I found the shoulder strap/bag very awkward. The bad would frequently fall off my shoulder and I had to stop over to reach the ground with the tube. This new model addresses some of this -- the tube is slightly longer and the ergonomics a little better, but it's still awkward. The much bigger issue is that the tube CONSTANTLY jams up with leaves, wrapping them up like a cigar (literally - see my photo!). I am using this only on dry oak leaves and I am careful not to try to suck up too many at once. But the tube design does not allow the leaves to flow into the impeller. It will mulch for 5-10 seconds, then I can hear the impeller whine become more and more muffled as the tube jams up. Eventually (like after 30 seconds), I see leaves sticking out the bottom of the tube. To fix this, I either have to shove my hand up the tube (dangerous while it's running, but I can't reach the impeller anyway), or shut the thing off and detach the whole tube to clear it out. I spend more time emptying the tube than I spend sucking leaves. I wish I could return this thing, as it's practically useless. In the manual, it refers to this problem by telling you not to vacuum with the tube in an upright position or it can jam up. Again, I'm 6' 2" tall -- I can't orient the tube at an angle unless I sit in a chair! The unit does do a good job of mulching the few leaves that make it to the impeller. It took me an hour to fill the bag once, since I had to stop 25 times to clear out the tube. The mulched leaves are quite fine (and in fact create a fair amount of dust), so they take up less space in the bags. But the effort required to mulch a yardful of leaves is not worth it! I wish I could return this thing, because it won't get used. Maybe I can sell it to someone to use as a blower.