Customer
13 januari 2025
I don't know where all these 5 star reviews are coming from. This thing is totally useless because it doesn't do at all what it is advertised to do, which is pick up nails. It is designed to "look like" roofer's magnets, which are supposed to work in grass and other rough, uneven terrain around homes. It certainly has the LOOK of "the real thing," but it doesn't work AT ALL.I bought the biggest one, a 36 inch wide one, that weighs 20 pounds, that the seller claims holds 55 lbs of metal. No way. It FEELS like it must have a big strong magnet in it because it weighs a lot, and the 3 inch x 4 inch aluminum box LOOKS like the ones that used to be made here in the U.S. (which worked), but those old ones worked because they had a STRONG magnet inside, that required that pull-to-release handle to even get the nails off of them. This thing has such a weak magnet, that even a soft thin blade of delicate bluegrass will knock off every nail it picks up.The unit I bought picked up 6 nails in 3 feet of travel, (I counted them as I heard them) and I turned it over to find that it promptly lost all of them as soon as it picked them up, in very soft bluegrass, with maybe a quarter inch of some of the grass contacting the bottom.The magnet is not nearly strong enough to do what it is supposed to do. So in READING the reviews, I see that most people are rating it five stars, but then saying that the grass brushes up against it and knocks all the nails off, which makes the star ratings very suspicious.The whole idea of that big aluminum box is to be able to have all that space to lift the STRONG magnet up high enough with the release handle (4 inches) to break the magnetic field and release the nails.On this unit, no pull handle is necessary to clean the nails off, because the soft, delicate blades of a bluegrass lawn slightly coming in contact against the bottom will remove ALL the nails that it picks up.One comment said "Sometimes metal object can be swept off magnet by tall grass. So it's better to remove as soon as you hear something." So the apparent fix is to stop every second, take the one new nail off before the grass knocks it off? That is just stupid. The unit can only be adjusted to provide a maximum of 2 inches of clearance under it. A 3 inch lawn is NOT "tall" grass. It is supposed to have a magnet so strong that you must pull the release handle to even get the nails off of it. Yet a wispy blade of thin soft grass knocks the nails off as it picks them up?NO ONE is going to stop every 3 feet and turn the thing over to remove just a few nails. The whole point of having one of these sweepers is for it to be strong enough that it holds onto the nails it picks up until you are ready to release them (like on a concrete surface so you can find them). The reason for needing a pull-to-release handle to raise the magnet inside from the bottom of the aluminum box to release the nails, is that the magnet is supposed to be strong enough to hold onto them until you are ready to stop and clean a lot of them off at once. NO ONE is going to stop every time they hear a single nail hit, an NO ONE is going to pull the handle over the lawn and drop the few nails back in the grass again where they are again lost and cannot be found. Stupidest instruction ever. Such are most of the reviews.I bought this one because my roofer came out with something that looked very similar, but he couldn't get his to pick up anything either, and was trying to walk around holding his unit in the air to clear the grass, which is just moronic. Consequently he missed a LOT of nails, which was why I ordered this one (based on the number of good reviews), only to find it is worse than the one my roofer brought out.The photos of that pile of nails and debris, are what my 30 year old, cheap, broken 12 inch bar magnet (shown) picked up after my roofer swept the area. The image showing 6 roofing nails and a staple are what this new VEVOR magnet picked up, or at least what it held onto long enough for me to immediately stop, turn it upside down and remove before those violent grass blades knocked them back off.Overall this thing is not worth the $50 price tag, because it doesn't work. At all. However, the instructions included, and the return instructions, all written in Manglish, are hysterically funny and may be worth the $50 price tag just in humor value.