treemandan,
One guy works behind the rakers with the blower and whaalla, your done. Its like Patton, always advancing real quick.
Yup, Air support for the ground troops, hard to beat.
First time I ever used a Backpack blower was a fall leaf clean up, Shindaiwa's I think, we were working our way under an apple tree, my buddy picks up an apple and shoves it down his tube, gives it gas.
Phoop, apple goes like a ten foot arc. Ha ha ha.
I pick up an apple, slide it down the tube, give it gas.
Phhonk! apple flies out like a missile, clears the house, sails into the sky farther and farther until it's a dot, lands God knows where.
Never been able to repeat that, must've been the perfect size apple.
Stihl BR600: The most comfortable backpack blower I've ever worn. Quietish, powerful, but runs out of gas with the tank half-full. That's annoying.
Got to remember though, with any backpack blower, you're strapping on a big gyroscope, can mess with your balance, especially if you've just spent some hours in a tree or bucket, and you're working with tree legs, waiting for your land legs to come back.
It's also just the nature of using a backpack that you'll walk side to side and then backwards. With the weight on your back, one stumble and you'll go over. Seen it dozens of times.
One of the biggest difficulties in supplying a one truck crew with a backpack blower is space. Stihl blowers (and others) are designed to fit on a locking rack, easily mounted to a chipper. Just remember to lock them indoors at night.
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