blowers

[Mesterh]

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[b101uk]

If you carry a hand held blower in your vehicle 5.5 days a week which will weigh about 6.5kg with fuel and the tube and you work on average 48 weeks per year then you lose 1716kg of payload per year (staying within the law), thus the blower MUST blow more than 6.5kg of debris away AND lose per day to justify its loss in payload (time saved is not accounted for)

 

If there are 375 teams each of which have one 6.5kg blower and work similar 5.5 days per week with it in there vehicle then 643.5 tonnes of loosed payload can be accounted for by blowers per year nationally.

 

From the point of losing debris and saving payload a rake probably loses more in plane sight as a customer wont expect every chip removed with a rake but they will be more insistent if you use a blower, also a blower will move extra debris nothing to do with you so you are taking maybe 1kg of extra debris per day over what a rake would cause witch is ~99 tonnes extra nationally per year.

 

So excluding “time” a rake is probably more efficient at losing stuff, loses less payload, causes less load taken away and doesn’t drink fuel and you can probably get 2 rakes and a broom for the same weight as 1 blower given there are normally 2 or 3 people per team.

 

So in short blowers lose 643.5 tonnes of on vehicle payload per nationally and cause an extra >99 tonnes of debris to be taken off sites per year nationally, but then I don’t look at things like most people.

Edited November 20, 2010 by b101uk

[Mesterh]

If you carry a hand held blower in your vehicle 5.5 days a week which will weigh about 6.5kg with fuel and the tube and you work on average 48 weeks per year then you lose 1716kg of payload per year (staying within the law), thus the blower MUST blow more than 6.5kg of debris away AND lose per day to justify its loss in payload (time saved is not accounted for)

 

If there are 375 teams each of which have one 6.5kg blower and work similar 5.5 days per week with it in there vehicle then 643.5 tonnes of loosed payload can be accounted for by blowers per year nationally.

 

From the point of losing debris and saving payload a rake probably loses more in plane sight as a customer wont expect every chip removed with a rake but they will be more insistent if you use a blower, also a blower will move extra debris nothing to do with you so you are taking maybe 1kg of extra debris per day over what a rake would cause witch is ~99 tonnes extra nationally per year.

 

So excluding “time” a rake is probably more efficient at losing stuff, loses less payload, causes less load taken away and doesn’t drink fuel and you can probably get 2 rakes and a broom for the same weight as 1 blower given there are normally 2 or 3 people per team.

 

So in short blowers lose 643.5 tonnes of on vehicle payload per nationally and cause an extra >99 tonnes of debris to be taken off sites per year nationally, but then I don’t look at things like most people.

 

Errrrrrr think I'll just keep my blower if it's all the same .

[sean fg]

Kids be aware glue sniffing and lead to bleeding noses brain failure and dumb threads!

[mark hooper]

cracking answer if there was a prize i reckon you would get it

[likeitorlumpit]

I lost a blower once

scumbag thieves