[Help] Leaf Blower advice

[TomandJerry]

My friend's leaf blower has decided to stop working over the weekend and is seeking to buy a new one

Any recommendations?

 

[Anger]

Yes. Buy a brush instead.

Leaf blowers are inefficient, environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Yes. Buy a brush instead.

Leaf blowers are inefficient, environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary.

Out of curiosity why are leaf blowers environmentally unfriendly

ps wouldn’t a broom be better than a brush?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Very amusing tale in one of Danny Baker's books about a leaf blower up and about early in Disney.

 

[TomandJerry]

Yes. Buy a brush instead.

Leaf blowers are inefficient, environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary.

A brush isn't as effective on a gravel drive way

 

[Is it PotG?]

Hours of fun

 

[Anger]

A brush isn't as effective on a gravel drive way

Then buy a rake for that

 

[OzMike]

F'king hate the f'king things. Every weekend an army of people come out and use them on their gardens. Noisier than a passenger plane, then the wind blows them all back again !!!!!! I rake leaves up and compost, much more civilised.

 

[Anger]

Out of curiosity why are leaf blowers environmentally unfriendly

ps wouldn’t a broom be better than a brush?

Broom / brush all good.

Petrol (fossil fuel) powered leaf blower not good.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Broom / brush all good.

Petrol (fossil fuel) powered leaf blower not good.

Ta for reply……battery powered leaf blower?

 

[The Grockle]

I've got the dewalt battery blower. It's powerful and lightweight and lasts about 15-20 minutes on a full charge.

 

[METALMICKY]

My friend's leaf blower has decided to stop working over the weekend and is seeking to buy a new one

Any recommendations?

" My friend " ? Are you just a little ashamed to say that you want one?

 

[The Grockle]

I've got the dewalt battery blower. It's powerful and lightweight and lasts about 15-20 minutes on a full charge.

DEWALT DCMBL562N
18v Blower

 

[Bold Seagull]

My friend's leaf blower has decided to stop working over the weekend and is seeking to buy a new one

Any recommendations?

Don’t buy a new one! Plenty for sale on FB marketplace £10-30. Most of the time people think they’re a good idea but don’t end up using them, so plenty of sale secondhand.

 

[JJ McClure]

Don’t buy a new one! Plenty for sale on FB marketplace £10-30. Most of the time people think they’re a good idea but don’t end up using them, so plenty of sale secondhand.

Yep, bought one, used it two / three times at most, and it's not been out of the shed since.

 

[Doug-ees-evil]

Don't tell Cate Blanchett you're about to get one..

 

[LamieRobertson]

Don’t buy a new one! Plenty for sale on FB marketplace £10-30. Most of the time people think they’re a good idea but don’t end up using them, so plenty of sale secondhand.

I bought my Sthil (battery powered) blower 5 years plus ago second hand from a garden machinery outlet….it had previously been used as part of their hire fleet …..gets used almost daily and still working well

 

[LamieRobertson]

F'king hate the f'king things. Every weekend an army of people come out and use them on their gardens. Noisier than a passenger plane, then the wind blows them all back again !!!!!! I rake leaves up and compost, much more civilised.

Don't tell Cate Blanchett you're about to get one..

So OzMike is Cate B….who would have thought it

 

[Anger]

Ta for reply……battery powered leaf blower?

Still not as good as broom / brush / rake (as the battery uses resources).

 

[dazzer6666]

F'king hate the f'king things. Every weekend an army of people come out and use them on their gardens. Noisier than a passenger plane, then the wind blows them all back again !!!!!! I rake leaves up and compost, much more civilised.

Bloke opposite us uses one virtually EVERY NIGHT for a few weeks (flowering shrub on his lawn drops petals)……..always around 7/8pm. It’s a petrol-powered monster and so loud.

I’ve got an electric one, probably use it 3-4 times a year, particularly in autumn as the trees in the woods behind the house deposit loads of leaves which end up rotting on the patio if I don’t pick them up