Blower Vacs

Hand-held blower vacs can be useful for a variety of gardening tasks. Collecting and shredding garden leaves is, of course the most obvious. Gardeners love the vacuum function for making mulch and compost out of leaves. Used this way, blower vacs can reduce 16 bags of loosely packed leaves to one mulched blower bag.

The blower vac two-stroke engines are powerful for their weight and inexpensive to manufacture, but these advantages are also disadvantages. They are inherently dirtier and noisier garden tools. Blower vac Manufacturers such as Echo utilize unique sound attenuation technology for the PB-46LN. Others have designed larger mufflers, rubber-isolated engine mounts, and spring-mounted handles. Both Honda and Ryobi have designed smaller, quieter, and less polluting four-stroke engines that will soon serve to power garden blower vacs. Some, like Husqvarna with its E-Tech engine, have developed low-smoke oil and redesigned the combustion chamber and muffler in order to reduce emissions.

Blower vacs are particularly useful for clearing out leaves and debris when space is restricted, such as behind garden sheds or other diffcult to reach areas of the garden. With a special extension attachment, blower vacs are also handy for "sweeping" out gutters, garages, and carports, not to mention cleaning driveways or decks before sealing them. They're also used to sweep decks and even dry off cars and their engines after a wash.

Recently electric blower vacs have started to appear. In response to concerns over the noise of petrol-powered blower-vacs, corded electric models are now more powerful than ever, some of them even surpassing their petrol-powered brethren, and with less weight. The biggest drawback to these garden blower vac units is that you're limited to 100 feet from the plug socket, or the motor can be damaged.

 

 

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