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Gardening; leaf blower vacs
Hand-held blower-vacs can be extremely useful for a variety of gardening tasks. Gathering and shredding garden leaves is, of course the most obvious. Gardeners love the vacuum function for making mulch and compost out of grass and leaves. Used this way, blower-vacs can reduce 16 bags of loosely packed leaves to one mulched blower bag. This will make any gardeners life a little easier.
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 pool decks and even dry off cars and their engines after a wash.
The garden 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. 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. Both Honda and Ryobi have designed smaller, quieter, and less polluting four-stroke engines that will soon serve to power garden blower-vacs.
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. A few cordless battery-powered
blower-only models are also available, but they tend to
be heavy and have limited run times.
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