Fall is the official season of complaining about too-early retail holiday displays – I heard ‘doorbuster’ on Labor Day – but if you have trees and you don’t have alawn service, then you have work coming up and need tools to do it.
One of the main tools, and signature sound of autumn in leaf country, is the din of the landscaper’s backpack blower.
A blower isn’t just an autumn, or even purely landscaping tool, and if you’re looking into buying one, here are a few tips.
What to Look for?
The main thing I use my blower for is after mowing the grass. Even mulching mowers leave clippings on walks and driveways and the fastest way to clean surfaces is to blow the grass back into the lawn where they belong.
So, if you’re standing at the mountain of boxes looking at piles of blowers in the Big Box store (or digital pile online), the first thing to look for is the blower’s air volume or CFM (cubic feet per minute). All other things being equal, how much air comes out of the nozzle