Garden Weasel 95404 Nut Gatherer, Large, Red/Silver

If you have walnut trees in your yard you CANNOT live without this product. We would spend hours raking and shoveling walnuts into a wheelbarrow for disposal, and that was the entire family involved. I have since had back surgery and now can just walk around the yard and pick up all the walnuts by myself, empty them into a 5 gallon bucket and take them away. It is Fantastic! You will not be disappointed with picking up walnuts with this product. You need to buy the wire unit that goes with it to release them into the bucket. You really only need one, we have 5 walnut trees. I have tried to pick up pine cones with them, it will pick them up, but it is harder to get them to release out of the basket. I have not tried the acorn one yet, but maybe some day.

If picking up sweet gum balls by hand is a 1/10 then using this tool is maybe a 4-5/10. I have a medium sized tree and usually pick them up by hand. I had more than double the number of balls this year and decided to look for a tool.Pro: This is a well built tool, with stainless steel basket and steel handle. I wish the handle were a bit longer, but it's not a deal breaker. It's simple to use, just push it over the gumballs and they pop into the basket. When the basket gets full you use the ejector on the handle to open the basket and shake the gumballs into the yard waste bin/bucket.Con: Pictures and videos show this to be a walk in the park; it isn't. I had to hold the end of the handle in one hand and push down on it strongly with the other to get the gumballs (which were close together) to pop into the basket. Some wedge between the wires, allowing others to escape or else several will wedge in the wires and as you roll along those will pop out onto the lawn again. I tried rolling in one direction, then the other, then back and forth. If the balls are not close together then pushing forward will get them. If they are close together then back and forth seems the best method. Emptying the basket is not too bad, but it does fill up fast. Best way is to empty is to move the sliding ejector fully forward and shake the basket over the bin/bucket.Balls on a solid surface, like driveway or sidewalk, will go in without too much work. Balls on soft grass are much more work as the stickers will cling to the grass and ground. Balls that have been walked on have to be pulled by hand.I will keep this tool as I find it better than crawling along the grass and picking them up by hand. I was able to pick up quite a few in the 1 1/2 hours I worked in the yard. My tree is nearly empty now, maybe another 15 minutes when the rest of them fall. Like any tool, there's a learning curve for the most effective method of use. I have a large burr oak in the back yard. I'm going to try the nut picker on those large acorns this fall.

Don't expect Magic, but it does work. A review told me to get the pro, and I have a "mast year" of acorns so I did. I'm sure the lower version would not have worked as well, as this one was not perfect. It is kind of cool as it does pick up what you would have otherwise bent over for. In a rough yard with heavy acorns it's only going to get about 50% of what you "roll over", because many are embedded in the soil or grass. It works almost flawlessly on a smooth surface (like a deck), - up until the point that you have so many acorns in the basket that a new larger acorn starts to "let out" the smaller ones already in the basket. You do need to empty it frequently or you start to lose the smaller of what you've collected. Pushing harder has definite limits of return on effectiveness. I don't think anything is going to pick up "all" the acorns, but this helped me pick up more than I might have otherwise. It is a little bit superfluous as a yard implement, but that depends on how bad you need it. It's not a "must", it's a helpful addition.

We have 4 mature Sweet Gum Trees on our city lot. A few weeks ago we had several thousand 'seed balls' distributed on the complicated lot of flower beds, pond and ground covered slopes. This was an unusually prolific crop when contrasted with our 40+ years in the garden. Out of frustration and exhaustion I purchased a Large Nut Gatherer. It worked so well my wife wanted second so we could clean up efficiently. (We have 3500 perennials in the back yard.) Together we filled 7, 30 gallon, paper yard bags in record time.

I ordered the product from Amazon after seeing it at an Amish hardware store in rural Ohio. We have an Oak tree near our swimming pool and have acorns galore. I initially liked the product, seems very well made, and it does pick up some acorns. However, it has several issues that helped me decide to return it: 1) The acorns have to be fully intact. Step on any or have squirrels started working on them and it won't pick them up. 2) It really needs a flat, consistent surface to work well. Our pool deck is exposed aggregate and our house deck is wood, and these apparently cause the product to not work well. Also, acorns that fell into the grass would not pick up at all. So after going over an area with the Gatherer I still had to go back and sweep.

Perfect! I just bought a house with a large Williams Pride apple tree. It had so many apples on the ground under it that bees, rabbits, and all sorts of critters were congregating in the yard.Due to the bees, picking up all the dozens of windfall apples was difficult. This lovely tool works perfectly as described.Picks up the black walnuts and walnut portions and even the larger apples.There is a lever to pull that spreads the wire, so no other pieces are needed for operation. Not realizing this, I bought a seperate tool to help empty the contents of this. The emptier wasnt expensive and ill keep it, but it was wasted money nonetheless.

We have sooooo many walnuts that for years take hours and hours every week.... so we ordered this mostly assuming it wouldn't work but it does!! And it works amazing! The key is to simply roll it along and not press down. Someone could do this while still using their cane it's so easy! Then the lever let's the cage open to dump the walnuts into a wheelbarrow or bucket.I've noticed cheaper ones that are round but I think the oblong shape of this is part of the magic.Highly recommend this!!

Works extremely well to pick up my apples. Saves my back. And the basket separator mechanism to empty it works well. No bending required anymore.Only negative is the wire U-frame that attaches the wheel to the handle sometimes loosens up on its own and the basket wheel falls off. Pretty easy to put out back on and retension the U-Frame though so not a big deal.Slightly pricey but in the long run it'll save my back

Works great but have to be careful that the wires don’t bend too much

Works great, big time saver. Great for black walnut trees.