BG 85/86 will out power many other brands lower end backpack blowers. Now that wood sales have slowed to a trickle, the boys and me have become lawn lizards and just do wood one day a week. We have done commercial lawn work for three years and the the BG85/86 is more than enough blower to do commercial work with, we have had the 85 for three years and have had zero issues with it, as far as a choke knob mentioned in one of the earlier post this model does not have a knob that can fall off, it has a lever style choke that can't come off. We have had zero issues with it, we also have a backpack style blower and find the handheld a much more versatile piece of equipment. The only place where we see the benefit of the back pack style is when you step up to a blower the size of the 600 magnum stihl for heavy,heavy leaf removal in the fall, and only if you are doing it commercially.
It's just like saws boys, Stihl rules the handheld market as well, others may be good, just not great.lol We've got three FS 80's trimmer's and a 90R four mix, not one has ever been to the shop and a couple are hitting 25 years of service. The 90R has been just as durable as the two stroke 80's so far.
