The first time i used it the plastic twines broke within 5 seconds, this was caused by small twigs being mixed up with the leaves, to be fair ? it does say the product is only to be used for leaves ! BUT when leaves fall you usually get some debris from the branches, if you don't sort this from the leaves then you will have constant problems, the idea was good but unfortunatley the product design is not man enough to do the job. $100 + thrown down the preverbally drain