Your Backyard Deserves A Blower-vac

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By Steve Gardner

This time and labor saving machine was introduced in the 70's to remove leaves, grass mulch and general debris from your driveways, sidewalks and your landscaping, and can even clean gutters and do a bit of light snow removal.

Blower-vac users were often leaving only the blower behind and removing the chemical dispensing parts from the device. It then created the possibility to improve their usage as a common maintenance tool for the garden. Blower-vacs can also efficiently remove dead leaves from awkward nooks and crannies. It probably saved labor work by significant amount. The blower-vac can switch to a vacuum mode to suck up leaves for mulching them With only a flip of a switch.

These beefy models are incredibly stable and pack enough firepower to move wet leaves and thick debris with ease. They're also perfect for clearing lawn refuse from flat, expansive surfaces like parking lots, driveways and parking lots. Leaf blowers are favorites among homeowners because they let you tuck all your leaves into a neat pile for the yard waste bin. Electric or gasoline-powered leaf blowers can be a pain though.

In response to concerns due to the noise that gas-powered blower-vacs produce, corded blowers are now more powerful than ever, some of them are even surpassing their gas driven "brothers". They are also less heavy. The biggest drawback to electric blower-vac is that you can walk away only 100 feet from the plug socket. While a gas blower-vac is powerful they make much more noise than electric powered leaf blowers and vacuums. Some cities have noise restrictions so quietness rules needs to be checked first.

Electric engines provide plenty of power, are 50 - 70% quieter than gas powered leaf blowers and emit no air pollution. If yardmen used electric leaf blowers to vacuum up and mulch yard debris, it would eliminate virtually all the air pollution problems and greatly reduce the issue of noise.

Many newer blower-vac models rates up to 70db at 50ft at full speed. And unlike landscape maintenance workers, who need hearing protection because of long hours exposure to sound coming from a machine near to their ears, homeowners can hear a leaf blower-vac sound for only a coupe of minutes a week, and at greater distances.

Several factors have to be kept in mind while you are looking for a blower-vac:

1. volume

2. weight

3. class

The volume determines how many cubic feet can blower-vac cover per minute. Some of the leaf blowers can convert to shredders or mulchers, from blowers to vacuums or vice versa.

In short, try any blower-vac before you buy it and, while operating in the backyard, do wear the recommended safety gear for a safe cleaning.

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