Evening all
I think everyone is now using handheld blowers (pretty bloody useless).
I picked up an electric victa vac (about 5 years old), last year at the tip shop for $25. Luckily, the tip tests and tags electric, so you know that the motor works.
It is great for vacuuming the back patio.
Probably with smaller house sizes, fewer people have the space for a reasonable size vac, let alone a petrol one.
That said Norm, surely someone would still want a 2 stroke one in that good conditon.
CyberJack, I too find leaf blowers at 8 on a Sunday morning infuriating. But I think the worst ones are those who rev it for 1 second. Then idle and repeat. The gardeners (I use that term loosely) that were employed to keep the tiny garden of the next door units clean (when they were brand new and had home opens), would rev blip their Stihls for 15 minutes straight, then weed and tip their refuse over our fence.
Next day, just as I heard the real estate guy say to prospective buyers �the neighborhood is so quiet��
2 stroke leaf blower time.
No doubt we will be hearing more 4 stroke leaf blowers in the future. Just saw one in the Aldi catalogue for $169 � will probably be popular like all those special buys are. I did find the fact they are offering a 4 stroke chainsaw very strange though.
Regards
Tyler
