I have enjoyed Bazza's DIY thread. I found some useful info there and I love tools and gadgets. I thought I would see if anyone is interested in this. Good or bad. I'll start with a good.
We have a lot of big trees with a fairly big yard and a large deck so a good blower is required if I want to keep things looking decent. I have a husqvarna backpack blower that has worked great for many years. But its a bit of a pain to get it for a quick 5 minute blow of the deck everyday and as its gas powered, it gets stored in the basement. Bought a Dewalt blower this past spring and absolutely love it.
I have been using it since the spring but never thought it would be able to handle the heavy fall leaves. I was wrong. This thing has almost as much power as my backpack blower. It gets almost 25 minutes of run time at full power on a 5ah battery. Zero maintenance, zero cleaning and because I can keep it in the mudroom, I can blow off the deck and have it put up quicker than I could even get the backpack blower up to the deck.
We have a lot of big trees with a fairly big yard and a large deck so a good blower is required if I want to keep things looking decent. I have a husqvarna backpack blower that has worked great for many years. But its a bit of a pain to get it for a quick 5 minute blow of the deck everyday and as its gas powered, it gets stored in the basement. Bought a Dewalt blower this past spring and absolutely love it.
I have been using it since the spring but never thought it would be able to handle the heavy fall leaves. I was wrong. This thing has almost as much power as my backpack blower. It gets almost 25 minutes of run time at full power on a 5ah battery. Zero maintenance, zero cleaning and because I can keep it in the mudroom, I can blow off the deck and have it put up quicker than I could even get the backpack blower up to the deck.