BLACK+DECKER BLACK+ DECKER Leaf Blower Hose Attachment for Corded Leaf Blowers, Attachment Only, 8ft (BV-006)

This is supposed to go on a trash can. Forget that! I ordered drawstring cotton bags from Amazon and just pull these tight on the end of the hose. Works great because the cotton bags easily allow air flow. Dump the bag, then turn inside out and reinstall. It blows itself clean on your next vacuuming!

Let me start by saying that I love this addition. I was a little leery to purchase it given reviews that I had read about it not staying on the trash can very well. I did decided to pull the trigger and I am so glad that I did.First, why did I buy it? My leaf blower also mulches and I use it 95% of the time to mulch leaves. Why? because I can fix 5-10x as many in my trashcans on the curb if I do. However in that mode I have a bag on a strap over my shoulder. That bag gets HEAVY! So my back and shoulder get tired and then rapidly head into sore. This works as a new "on the ground" catch all. It connects perfectly, has a number of adapters, to my leaf blower. It then has an 8' hose with a net or mesh cover with a draw string. The mesh allows the air being blown thru the hose to come up but keep the leaves in place in the trashcan.So now instead of a bag I mulch up the leaves from around the can and then drag the can and mulch some more. No more soreness but I am limited in range to the can.So the concern people said it wouldn't stay on the can for me proved to be not true or at least a non issue. There is a small plastic sliding knob on the draw string. This slides easily allowing things to fit on any general size or shape of can. I have a grey Brute from the local big box store. I hook the bag under the handle on one side, then drape it over to the other side and slide the handle. Then in a small channel in the center of that slider is a lock. You slide it up and binds on the string and holds tight. Tight enough that I have pulled the can over on it's side rather than have that release. But a quick flip with a thumb nail and it releases and you can deal with the contents of the trashcan. That lock is a life-saver. Without it this would just never work...The 8' hose doesn't really give you a circle with a diameter of 16'. I found that the hose is in the center of the mesh netting on the top of the can. I loose a foot there. With my mulcher it comes in on the side not the end. So I personally get... 6 feet or so. But still with how well the rest of it work that really hasn't been a concern.I have never had anything leaf related bind up in the hose. I did get one clog. unbeknownst to me I had sucked up a woody stick from a Rose bush. The this made it thru the system still as a stick and wedge where it shifts from blower to hose attachment and bingo things stopped flowing. But the same exact thing would have happened with the bag in place...I would heartily recommend this after about 10 hours of use in the last 2 weeks. If anything should ever happen to this one I will be directly ordering another one as a replacement. I might even pre-emptively buy one... ;)

Initially my rating for this product would have been a zero and I would have written that if someone were looking for something to yell obscenities to then this is your ticket but then I did get the hang of it - after a while.I have an old B&D Leaf Hog blower/vacuum/mulcher that I have used primarily as a blower since purchase because that little bag which came with it caused more irritation than it was worth thus rendering the vacuum/mulcher useless to me. This year I spotted this attachment and I became excited that this is what was needed and SHOULD HAVE been sold along with the original blower/vacuum/mulcher so I bought it (as well as a trash can on wheels from Walmart). Delivery was fast and well packaged, thank you Amazon.From other reviewers I knew first hand that the cord cincher was going to be difficult to use and, yes, it most certainly is so I immediately exchanged the cincher for another that I already had - I highly recommend others to do the same. Several attachments were included with the hose but they weren't needed as I could fasten the hose directly my vacuum. After discovering this I was ready to mulch but attempting to secure the netting over the trash can proved to be extremely arduous for me as the weight of the hose continuously pulled the far side off before I could cinch the cord thus causing me a lot frustration. Finally getting it on I began to mulch and it went well with the netting blowing off once as other reviewers had complained about but I tied a loose knot below the cincher which stopped that from reoccurring.After fighting a lost cause in trying to reattach the netting again after the first dumping made me give up for the day and I was very disappointed. The next day I tried again only this time I finally got smart by simply removing the netting from the hose end THEN securing the netting to the can - securing further down the sides too thus eliminating the need to knot and no worries of the netting blowing off again. Getting the elastic opening back around the hose end was a little trying at first but it got better the more it was repeated.From this simple change the process became so much easier and I began to like this attachment as it is far, far better than using that little bag. Rating it was difficult considering my initial trials but it does work well in the end. Raking leaves into piles before mulching is also recommended; however, just raking the leaves overall may be the quicker of the two methods. Good luck with yours.