Empire Level 27059 Magnetic Clean Sweep, Rolling Unit

This thing is PERFECT!!! I was ripping a deck apart and knew I'd drop a nail here and there. I'd estimate maybe 5% of the nails I pulled would go flying off in some direction, being completely unable to find. I thought I'd give this a try because the price was low. When it arrived it was so light I thought, "crap, there is no way this is going to work". Boy was I wrong! I took it under the deck and swiped it around over the ground where I thought there might be one or two nails. When I inspected the bar I found the one or two nails, but also the nail heads that had broken off, a half dozen roofing staples that were left over from my re-roofing last summer and some other tid bits of metal here and there. This this works GREAT! I'm going to hire my niece to come over and "sweep" the entire yard, under the bushes, around the deck and even down our gravel pathway where we took the deckboards to burn. I'm certain she can do the whole yard in a few hours. This thing pays for itself by preventing visits to the ER to get a tetanus shot or to get stitches. Yup, a GREAT purchase!

Previously I had a 12" magnet without rollers, so I would drag it around the driveway, bouncing along, metal on cement. It worked to pick up nails, screws, staples and any other items that would otherwise give me a flat tire. The problem is that without wheels, I would quit after a while because of the bounce the item had. This new, smooth-rolling roller-assisted magnet is great. Every time I roll it around the garage and driveway, I pick up at least one tire-puncturing screw or nail. No more flat tires and sticking a wax-soaked piece of string into the holes in my tires. It also works great if you have a home office and drop paper clips or staples. It saves your vacuum.I would recommend it highly for any homeowner who is a DIY who, like myself, cannot seem to keep all screws and nails contained. Also, my wife loves it for picking up paperclip spills or used staples that fall all over when separating stacks of documents.

Works well and is much stronger of a magnet then it lets on. It doesn't feel like you want or think a really strong magnet should (heavy). It is rather light. But it does work very well and I have picked up a lot of rusting metals with it. They are doing a remodel next to me and the workers are very careless. This thing has picked up everything from new nails to very old rusty ones. I hang it in the garage by the broom and its easy to grab it when I need it. They wheels feel flimsy, but roll easy and I have not had anything break on it yet. Good for the money but I am not sure I would use it if I had a business and put it in service everyday. It is great for around the house cleaning/checking.

While at first glance it would appear this is made cheaply, it somewhat is. However, I'm having a new roof put on and for the past week I've been dragging it around my grass and sidewalks and it is picking nails up that I can't even see through the grass. The magnet is pretty powerful. Somewhat small so it fills up quick, but does the job well. Great price and great product.

no where ne'er strong enough!!

Mine came broken. The metal button, spring, and ball/detent that hold the handle's angle had fallen out. The magnet did it's job as I found all three stuck to it in the box. With the help of some channel locks I was able to pop it all back into place and it seems to work fine now, though I added a piece of vinyl tape over the button as insurance since if it came apart once, it'll do so again.Otherwise it works fine. It's a magnet with wheels and a handle and is strong enough to pick up most fasteners.Update: reduced to 3 stars. My angle adjustment is now wrapped with tape to hold it in place as the adjustment assembly kept falling apart. It works OK as a magnet with wheels and a permanently fixed angle thanks to electrical tape.

I have a gravel yard at my warehouse and was constantly finding rusty nails from old pallets. After getting tired of bending over to pick them up, I decided to try this product. I was shocked after running this around the yard that it picked up dozens nails and metal debris that I couldn't see. If you have this problem, try this as its very inexpensive and works great.

The magnet and wheels portion of this works awesomely! However, there's a major flaw with the connection of the handle to the magnet part. It has a push button, spring loaded mechanism for adjusting the angle. The mechanism just falls apart! I put it back together several times and finally ended up just duct taping it into the position I wanted.