On 9/5/2012 7:45 AM, Doug wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:00:26 -0700 (PDT), DD_BobK
wrote:

On Sep 4, 5:20 pm, "walter" wrote:
My 18 year old Sears leaf blower gave up its ghost. I tried to resuscitate
it by rebuilding the carb, but no joy.

I am looking for an inexpensive gas leaf blower for light duty around my
home.

I was looking at the reviews of some blowers at Walmart, the HD and Amazon,
but they all had rather poor reviews, except the $ 500 Echos. I don't want
to spend more than @ 100.

Any recommendations based on experience? Is it worth looking at any of the
many re-furbished blowers on E-bay?

Thanks

Walter

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How about you don't bother the leaves?
And give nearby folks a break on noise & air pollution?

Two stroke engines dump about 30% of their fuel unburned.
Blowers stir up lots of particulates, the good news, operator suffers
the worst.

Or heaven forbid...use a rake?


Rake... think blisters and bandaides. BTDT and it's no joy
especially with packed down leaves from all winter.

Why? I can get most of them with the mulching mower and use a pair of
garden gloves to rake out the ones I can get to with the mower. And I
will run the mower just to break down the leaves before winter.