Careful - leaf blowers also suck

kballowe

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56V Ego 880 CFM @200 mph leaf blower. It's a beast. The intake will snatch the strings right off your shorts. Or so my daughter tells me. Got most of it out with pics and needle nose, but in the end, it had to be disassembled. It's picky on the re-assemble. Just sayin'.

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I never thought about it but always assumed they had some sort of filter on them.
Makes sense that they wouldn't with the volume of air they have to move.
 
I can see that happening

my Toro 60v could launch a small dog to the moon.. and the intake on the rear has actually sucked my gym shorts upto it.
when I was using it to cool coffee beans ;) (wasnt paying attention to the intake)
OTOH the beans are cool in 1min vs 5-7min.-- superior coffee.

my backpack blower despite being 1080CFM@200mph would have a much harder time sucking in anything the way it was designed.
 
I have a Worx leaf blower/vacuum and I can confirm that it does indeed suck. On my Makita blower, you have to be careful not to hold it too close to your body because the air intake will suck loose fitting clothing onto it.
 
The leaf blower that was given to me can have the intake/exhaust swapped so as to work as a vac. Works nicely to mulch (although it fills up way too fast). What goes in comes out, so this issue is not surprising... but most of the time when we go to do something, we don't stop and think "what could go wrong", it's more of "how hard could it be?" sort of thinking, where we just do it and then find out all the details.

So I could totally see myself doing this sort thing.
 
Old Echo backpack ripped the t-shirt right off of me when the corner of it got caught in the upstream. 40V Husqvarna blower is also quite the sucker. Absolutely destroyed a plastic shopping bag that drifted into the intake. Fortunately blew out all of the little pieces. Right onto my pristinely cleaned lawn :rolleyes:.

OP-love the 318 curves in the Tail of the Dragon printed on your bench.
 
Got a Husqvarna back pack leaf blower. Designed great. Never sucked up any clothing or strings for the 6 years I've had it. 2 stroke. Never serviced it either it either. Did clean the re-usable air filter a few times, that's about it. But man it's loud. Gotta wear ear plugs, or you'll be wearing hearing aids before you know it. I do run some stabil fix in the mix to clean the carb and only use True Fuel in the tank. Starts on 2 pulls everytime. Great machine and not expensive. They do eat gas at full throttle like a S.O.B.
 
50yr Street Mech said:
Got a Husqvarna back pack leaf blower. Designed great. Never sucked up any clothing or strings for the 6 years I've had it. 2 stroke. Never serviced it either it either. Did clean the re-usable air filter a few times, that's about it. But man it's loud. Gotta wear ear plugs, or you'll be wearing hearing aids before you know it. I do run some stabil fix in the mix to clean the carb and only use True Fuel in the tank. Starts on 2 pulls everytime. Great machine and not expensive. They do eat gas at full throttle like a S.O.B.
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The echo pb-580T I previously had was pretty loud but if you werent using it more than 15min.. didnt really need hearing protection.
(70dB(A) at 50ft 95@operator ear)

the X series pb-8010T I upgraded to.. I had to wear something its just the right frequency to blast your ears
(79dB(A) at 50ft 105-112@operator ear)
I prefer snug bluetooth noise canceling headphones.. same ones I mow with.
but hey twice the air = 40% the time to completion (depends on task)


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Have to be careful with AI specs it lists the loudness at 50ft distance on the pb-580T as at the operator ear.
and the operator EAR noise level for the pb-8010T without the 50ft spec.
(I wasnt trying to find an AI answer just a noise spec.)
 
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A few years back I was using a Husqvarna 125BVX to suck up leaves in the fall. I was wearing a jacket with a hood string. The blower bogged down a bit and something got really tight around my neck then it snapped and the blower stalled and the pull starter handle flew off at the same time. Somehow the hood string got sucked into the flywheel and wrapped it up in the pull starter, ruined the pull starter. Did not expect that at all.
 
Rand said:
The echo pb-580T I previously had was pretty loud but if you werent using it more than 15min.. didnt really need hearing protection.
(70dB(A) at 50ft 95@operator ear)

the X series pb-8010T I upgraded to.. I had to wear something its just the right frequency to blast your ears
(79dB(A) at 50ft 105-112@operator ear)
I prefer snug bluetooth noise canceling headphones.. same ones I mow with.
but hey twice the air = 40% the time to completion (depends on task)


Edit:
Have to be careful with AI specs it lists the loudness at 50ft distance on the pb-580T as at the operator ear.
and the operator EAR noise level for the pb-8010T without the 50ft spec.
(I wasnt trying to find an AI answer just a noise spec.)
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I gutted the catalyst out of the muffler of my PB-580T. I wouldn't say it really made it any louder, but it sure changed how it sounds and runs much cooler and happier now. I always wear ear protection with that thing no matter what I've always found it loud.
 
FordFETruck said:
I gutted the catalyst out of the muffler of my PB-580T. I wouldn't say it really made it any louder, but it sure changed how it sounds and runs much cooler and happier now. I always wear ear protection with that thing no matter what I've always found it loud.
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I usually did, maybe not for 10min after mowing cleanup.

with the x-series pb-8010t you go find the protection its obnoxious.

95% of my use is .33 miles away from the nearest neighbor.

I also have the 60v toro blower now it will easily handle blowing the leaves out to where I can mow them.
except during the heaviest part of leaf season.
 
Rand said:
I can see that happening

my Toro 60v could launch a small dog to the moon.. and the intake on the rear has actually sucked my gym shorts upto it.
when I was using it to cool coffee beans ;) (wasnt paying attention to the intake)
OTOH the beans are cool in 1min vs 5-7min.-- superior coffee.

my backpack blower despite being 1080CFM@200mph would have a much harder time sucking in anything the way it was designed.
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Hah! My bean cooler is also leaf blower powered.
 
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