Leaf blower recommendations

[tomlad]

Couldn't see best section for question

In the market for a backpack blower
Leaf crap around fishery.
Anyone dealt with the firm or indeed the hyundia ....

Hyundai 76cc Petrol Backpack Garden Leaf Blower 4 Stroke 192MPH 1.5L Ice & Snow 5056275754860 | eBay

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Reads well but personal experience is best eh

Tia
I believe a stihl would be best but about double the price, hard to justify.

 

[Kidds]

Arbtalk has threads about such things and generally if you don't want to pay Stihl money they would say Echo is the best bet.
Not always easy to do but having used such blowers I would say try one for a day if you can, hire one maybe. I found it gave me a really bad back as you are fighting against it twisting you round (they are powerful). That was with a Stihl but the newer Stihl is much better, I don't mind using that one. (sorry, don't know numbers)
I have a hand held Stihl and that does me fine.

 

[Kidds]

Read the negative reviews on that seller on Ebay. Personally I would not buy off them.

 

[TripleSix]

Couldn't see best section for question

In the market for a backpack blower
Leaf crap around fishery.
Anyone dealt with the firm or indeed the hyundia ....

Hyundai 76cc Petrol Backpack Garden Leaf Blower 4 Stroke 192MPH 1.5L Ice & Snow 5056275754860 | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hyundai 76cc Petrol Backpack Garden Leaf Blower 4 Stroke 192MPH 1.5L Ice & Snow at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

Reads well but personal experience is best eh

Tia
I believe a stihl would be best but about double the price, hard to justify.

Branded chinesium as opposed to unbranded.

Not very high quality.

You get what you pay for

 

[Wigeon]

Stihl br700 or something here- anyway the biggest one they did before they brought to the one that you can pull start on your back.

Could I justify it? Probably not.

Is it brilliant? Yes.

Will it move everything from grain to brick rubble? Yes.

 

[tomlad]

Had loan of a back.pack husky for a bit , knew i shouldn't have let him take it back and bought it, that was powerful, mates a 120 ish quidy ebay used recently not the same .
All my other gear is stihl, it works .

 

[Jack Russell]

We bought a walk behind leaf blower. My father is obsessed with keeping leafs cleared up and had a back pack blower. As previously said its Very tiring. We now use the walk behind and a hand held. The walk behind is phenomenal what it can shift.

 

[Steevo]

Worth considering a cordless electric version?

I’ll always consider battery power now instead of an engine.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I've got a Gardencare backpack one. Had it 6 years. Its really good. Recommneded

 

[Sprig]

I have a Stihl battery blower and it's great. It depends on how much you want to do in one gp though. It does about 30 mins on a battery. I have a couple of spares as I have some of the other battery tools too.

 

[JeremyD]

Have a stihl absolutely brilliant . Saves hours of sweeping in our one grainstore with rough concrete floor.

 

[tomlad]

I've got a Gardencare backpack one. Had it 6 years. Its really good. Recommneded

Interesting is Garden cate the make , sorry not familiar

 

[tomlad]

Probably too much for battery, at least it would have to be milwaukee, dont want to start again.

I know my advice to someone else would be do it once properly so buy the stihl , seems different wen its my money

 

[Kidds]

Makita is worth a look too.

 

[tomlad]

Screwfix havev a makita id noticed

 

[WillH]

Only used a Stihl one. Br450 with electric and easy start. Not too sure about the easy start, seems to require more force to get past the resistance but two pulls starts it.

The electric start is handy once warmed up as you can tun it off and the on whenever without needing to remove from your back.

I got arm ache more than any back pain but I put that down to being left handed.

I have used the Stihl battery blower on a job cleaning gutters out, was surprisingly powerful but reckon you'd need a few batteries for constant use

 

[SilliamWhale]

Interesting is Garden cate the make , sorry not familiar

It's Chinese like them all but a decent quality Chinese

 

[tomlad]

Going to have another chat with my stihl man tomorrow

 

[Bobthebuilder]

No idea what they are like but spaldings have 1 on offer atm

 

[tomlad]

Just had a quick look @Bobthebuilder couldn't tell wich on offer