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Electric Leaf Blowers Take the Take the Smog Out Of Yard Clean-Up
I have plenty of experience using a gas leaf blower in the fall and winter time. There is nothing that bothers me more that having the whole yard cleaned up, only to go inside and realize that I smell like an oil refinery, not to mention having the ringing in my ears from the loud motor.
This is why I recommend using power tools such as electric leaf blowers in place of gas leaf blowers. Electric leaf blowers are not only whisper quiet compared to their gasoline operated cousins, there are no noxious fumes to deal with when you are done, so you can go inside smelling as clean as your yard looks.
Turn Down the Volume On Yard Clean-Up With An Electric Leaf Blower
Many of you may still have a bunch of leaves to deal with from this past fall, which means you’ll be getting out the leaf blower to make things a bit easier on your back, unless of course, you like raking leaves. A leaf blower powered by gas is very loud and the fumes are quite repulsive to many.
A way around this dilemma is to invest in an electric leaf blower. The electric leaf blower is much more quiet than the gas powered version, and there are no fumes. These power tools are perfect for small yards or around a garage, workshop, or where ever debris can be. The best part about the electric leaf blower is that you don’t have to break your back using a rake when you want to preform yard care quietly.
Although there are many benefits to living in the Midwest, the chilly weather this time of year is not among them. When the first autumn chill enters the air in late September or early October, the leaves begin to change their hue from green to yellow, gold and amber. Then, in late October and well into November, the leaves flutter to the ground in stages. If I had my druthers, all of the leaves would fall in one fell swoop and I could rake them all at once.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any say in the matter and Nature remains a fickle mistress. Rather than dedicating entire weekends to raking the leaves into neat piles, I like to take a technological shortcut. An electric leaf blower makes yard work virtually painless, dramatically reducing the amount of time I have to spend outside in the nippy November weather.
Cleaning Up Shop With An Electric Leaf Blower
For many of us, times are tough and our budget has to stretch a bit further than it used to. So for many of us with a workshop, we have to make our tools into multi-function tools sometimes.
An example of what I’m talking about is owning an air compressor. This is a great tool for many things, but many people only use it for blowing up their tires occasionally, or using it to blow all the sawdust and dirt out of the workshop at clean-up time. These reasons alone are usually not enough for people to spend the money on an air compressor tank due to the fact that they can blow up their tires at any gas station, and shop clean-up can be achieved through other slower, but cheeper methods.
I’ll show you how to clean up your shop with a one of the power tools you might keep around the house anyway. This tool is the electric leaf blower. Not only will it clean up the yard in the fall, but you can keep it running all year in the shop blowing all the saw dust off your work surfaces. This also has a great advantage over a gas powered leaf blower because it produces no fumes and is much more quite.
Blowing Green With An Electric Leaf Blower
Being the green-conscious gardener that I am, I have a knack for finding cool little things here and there that do small wonders for the earth. An example of what I mean by this, is that I’m trying to slowly replace all of my gas powered power tools for the lawn and garden with electric ones, to be more environmentally friendly. Not to mention, inhaling all of those fumes and listening to those loud engines drives me insane, when all I want to do is get out and be at peace with the outdoors.
One of these little gizmos is an electric leaf blower. This is just what I am talking about. It’s much quieter than my old gas powered leaf blower, and I don’t come in the house smelling like 2-cycle fuel mix exhaust. You would store an electric leaf blower anywhere you would a gas powered one. Just be mindful of any moisture around. These are after all, electric power tools.