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

Worth every penny!!!!!

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

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.

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

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 very pleased with how well this sprayer is built. i highly recommend.

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.