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I moved to a two acre wooded lot a few years back, and brought my trusty battery blower that served me well in the city… that lasted one season. I caved and bou
by crims0n 4y ago
I moved to a two acre wooded lot a few years back, and brought my trusty battery blower that served me well in the city… that lasted one season. I caved and bought a backpack blower last year for about $300 USD. Is it obnoxious? Sure is. Bad for the environment? I am sure. But what used to take me several hours of blowing and recharging now takes me about 20 minutes.
When the electric blowers catch up in power and value I’ll be happy to switch back - but until then it’s a matter of cost and efficiency.
- hondo77 4y agoWhat are you blowing on a two-acre wooded lot that takes so long? I'm asking because a) I'm just curious and b) because I'm on an acre and all I use my electric blower for is to clean the concrete walkways and driveways. One charge is all I need for that. When I hear "two acre wooded lot", my mind doesn't immediately think of a lot of concrete.
- crims0n 4y agoYeah fair enough, if it was just the concrete I could get by with the electric blower. I have some gardens, grass, drainage, and 300' of road to keep tame as well.
- jonstewart 4y ago[flagged]
- DangitBobby 4y agoYou either don't have that many trees or you rake at superhuman speed. I have 3 large trees in my .2 acre yard and it takes me considerably longer than 20 minutes (number quoted by GP) to rake it up.
- davemp 4y agoNobody I know with acre+ yards rakes or blows leafs. It’s all done with a mower either just mulching it or bagging and dumping. Raking or even blowing an actual (semi-wooded) acre is a crazy amount of work.
- jonstewart 4y agoIt’s almost all woods… so, of course, no, I don’t rake it. But it generates a lot of leaves that blow up against my house and such places, and that I rake. The mower just runs over the leaves in the lawn.