GARDEN WEASEL Nut Gatherer 95334 – Small Yard Roller

It might be the best thing I ever bought on Amazon!

It really works, it helps if you played a little hockey (keep your stick on the ice). Think Saskatchewan League not intramural prep-school…downward pressure really helps, I’m not lightweight either. Weasel is tough and handles the power sweep…(Curling muscles probably work best)

You have to rake the grass because the nuts hunker in but the “Wease” picked up 5 baskets full in 10 minutes.

Squirrels were pissed, then realized I was dumping them over the fence next to their favorite tree and away from the other two nuts…Shibas puppies Elvis & Memphis…pictured.

Get one!

2015: This works well on whole acorns, but does not handle half-eaten acorns or acorn tops very well. The tops just stick in the wires (especially the double tops) and the broken half-eaten pieces fall out. I think if we had bought this early in the season and used it when the acorns first started falling, it would work decently well (though it doesn’t hold very much). But late in the season, it is not very helpful. We’re going to keep it to use next year. Based on the manufacturer website description, we purchased the small (our acorns are small). Would be nice if they offered a large capacity gatherer that works on small acorns.
2016 update: I’ve been using this tool almost daily for the last several weeks as the evil acorns are taking over our yard again. It does work great on just-fallen whole acorns. BUT – we have a lot of squirrels and birds who are feasting on our acorn crop… which means tons of half-eaten acorns and empty tops even this early in the season. The problem with the partial acorns and empty tops is that they tend to stick in the wires and prop them open, causing lots of already-collected acorns to fall back out. So I spend a lot of time fixing the problem by hand (every few passes). When I bought this originally, I had hoped I could walk in a straight line across the lawn, turn around, move over slightly, etc (like vacuuming). This is way more time-consuming than that. Take one step, roll forward and backward a bunch of times to pick up a few acorns, stop and untangle the broken pieces and tops from the wires, repeat… It’s extremely tedious. Plus the basket is tiny and fills up fast (I keep a bucket close by). Still better than raking, but not the answer to our hellish acorn problem.

Getting old and hate picking up your fired cartridges? This works great for .223, .308, 45ACP and even little .380.

I say yes. It’s wonderful to be able to look at a product–a fork, for instance–and be able to see from its design exactly how it’s meant to work. This device is almost fork-like in its simplicity. Imagine a small globe stretched from the poles until it’s the shape of a child’s football. The meridians are wire. You simply roll it over the acorns. The next second they’re inside the device, and don’t fall back out. Not every pass is successful, but backing-and-forthing brings satisfying results. It works very well on hard, flat surfaces like flagstone. On yielding surfaces, like gravel, perhaps half of the acorns are too wedged in to be picked up. Easy to empty by pulling apart the wires over a bucket. I have used it only once so far and can’t attest to its durability, but it appears to be solidly made. A lot more fun than stoop labor, though the latter will still be necessary to capture acorns half-embedded or hiding in corners.