Blowers / Vacs / Mulchers - which one's best?

[miker]

The only tool you need is a good backpack blower. Get a Stihl BR600.

 

You blow everything onto lawns before you cut the grass and let the mower pick it all up. Sand and soil can be blown back into shrub beds, cigarette butts are blown into corners making it easy to scoop them up with a shovel, overflowing gravel and pebbles are blown back onto the gravel area etc etc. You also blow everything out from under hedges and shurbs (i.e. debris and leaves) to be mowed up when grass cutting. No other type of tool will do as thorough a job of clearing up rubbish from borders and under hedges.

 

The BR600 is virtually my MOST important tool, and I do a lot of ground maintenance. It clears up cores after hollow tine aeration, disperses any clumps of grass after mulching, moves dog foul out of the way before cutting grass... honestly, the list is endless. Without it my quality would suffer and so would my profit.

 

This is from someone who does the job day in day out and has tried most methods.

 

totally agree:thumbup:

[harvey b davison]

dont know what the blowers are like, but dont discard the makita range. Could you have atrial / test of any before purchasing any make.

 

Dont think ryobi will stand the test of time, i had 2 fail me within 18 mths.

[Pedroski]

dont know what the blowers are like, but dont discard the makita range. Could you have atrial / test of any before purchasing any make.

 

Dont think ryobi will stand the test of time, i had 2 fail me within 18 mths.

 

I quite fancy trying the Makita back pack one - from the specs it should be on a par with Stihl BR600. The usual good warranty too.

[carlos]

iam also thinking of getting a blower but cant get exited as surley the most boring tool to have to shell out for?

would echo the comments on the vac,s we had a sthil one and was just slow and pretty usless really.

carl