4 Gallon Backpack Battery-Powered Broadcast Fertilizer Spreader for Granular Fertilizer Seed Feed Salt Ice

This is a fantastic product that has no competitors. Works very well. Worth every dollar.

The unit itself worked good. The problem is you need to pour the fertilizer thru a sift of some kind. Because a piece the size of a small bean will plug the unit up. Then you have to dump it out and find the small piece and remove it.

This backpack spreader is great and worth every penny! You can use it YEAR ROUND which is the biggest bonus!

I own the gasoline model. I use it to apply granular weed control to my pond. It works great. When the electric model came out, I was anxious to purchase it for the convenience of electric over gasoline. I own electric chainsaws and motorcycles, and the list goes on. In the last five years, everything I have bought electric has been fantastic, so why shouldn't this be? Boy, was I wrong. I have not been this disappointed in a purchase in many years. On blast mode, it only does one hopper. The battery is definitely too small. The battery door would not stay shut, so I had to bungee cord it. The hose, where you clamp it onto the housing, kept coming off, and when I tightened it more, the housing cracked. This is not even one-tenth as good as the gasoline model. If I could prevent just one person from having the awful experience I have, leaving this review would be worthwhile. One star is too kind, but no star is not an option, or I would have left zero stars. Buy the gasoline model.

Lugging a hand-crank spreader around a big yard is a total workout I didn't sign up for, so this battery-powered backpack is a lifesaver. It holds 4 gallons, which is plenty of capacity for a full pass of the lawn. For instance, I used it to put down some granular fertilizer recently, and the broadcast spread was super even—no more weird stripes in the grass from uneven hand-cranking. I’m especially excited to use it for ice melt on the driveway once the lake effect snow really kicks in; being able to just walk and let the motor do the work while I keep my hands in my pockets is a massive win. The straps are padded enough that it doesn't feel like it's digging in, even when it's topped off.

What a cool spreader. This thing takes the hassle out of having to wheel around your earthway spreader. Big battery comes in the back and the pack's not too heavy even fully loaded with weed and feed material or grass seed. The battery could last a little bit longer it's a 36 volt tomahawk battery. Buuuut The amount of material blown out of the pack goes from 0 to 10 and I keep mine on 10 and walk fast so the battery doesn't lose power and turn off.

This thing blows out a lot of material. With the recent snow I’ve put down a few bags of ice melt with it. It’s a little clunky to put on but not any worse than a gas powered leaf blower. Helps to use stairs and sit the bag on a step or two higher than where you sit. Better yet, put it on empty and have someone fill it up after you strap in. Do note: don’t put any moist fertilizer or ice melt in the tank. The store sold me some slightly damp ice melt and it clogged the chute. Even then, it put out a decent amount of material. The picture is of it blowing while clogged. The battery charger is a little noisy and it takes a little while for the battery to charge after draining but it also lasts long enough to empty more than 16 lbs of material and have more than 75% charge. Great to have in the winter. I’ll see how it handles spring.

I'm going to mainly be using this as a leaf blower. It seems to be advertised more as a spreader though so I'll keep that in mind. Installation was simple enough, instructions are okayish but slightly sparse, at least the manual and print are big enough and I didn't need to bust out the reading glasses. The gasket clamps were a notch or two too tight from the factory and I skinned my knuckle trying to cram them on . It's nice that it comes with a screwdriver but it's a size too small to effectively tighten the clamps. The metal latches on the harness need to clamp into the white plastic slot on the front sides, there's holes that come up. I didn't see this mentioned in the instructions. It's easiest to just put the unit on counter or truck bed before putting it on. The instructions do mention that but I thought I'd bring it up because that was a big question I had when looking at this. I blew the leaves off my porch, patio and most of the sidewalk around my house before the battery went dead. A lot of it was crud that had been around awhile. It really does best with fresh stuff that's just fallen. I found myself holding down the turbo button most of the time for maximum power. I noticed when done the spreader had opened up again somehow. Not sure if it affected performance or not but it's something to check on from time to time when using. Tonight after the battery finishes charging I plan to finish up the sidewalk and do the front, street and sidewalk across the street and blow them into a pile. It seems to me I'm going to still have to get a bulk of my leaves by hand, mow some and them every few days use this to get the fresh stuff until I get tired of the whole process. My yards almost an acre but there's several acres in front of my house with around thirty trees owned by the city and they don't pick them up so they blow into my yard year round and it never ends. Initial first of three maybe four reviews updates #1 test Run #2 End of Season #3 Spreading in the spring