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Sometimes it will sit in the van and only be fuelled Monday morning, lasting until Friday. I only use where necessary! Along with most of my powered tools. I even did some hedge trimming the other day with shears as it was early and the weather was good!
Sounds like an odd one, I can't imagine why you'd spend three hours with a backpack blower unless there was a reason!
I don't even put mine in the van except for the autumn, and even then only for a couple of sites, but I don't do massive commercial contracts. I do strugle to understand people belting themselves in to backpack blowers for domestic gardens, but I always assume they are larger set-ups and it's a one-off for them.
Regarding noise, we're a business. I couldn't work without power tools and make a living: it's all about speed as much as quality of the work, and a noisy blower used carefully is faster and more efficient than a broom. In and out as fast as possible, so the noise is kept to a minimum, but it's rare that hand tools are more profitable than power tools in reality.
hand held most of the time much more adaptable (angles, direction) even blowing borders out blow either way and get between plants better I can blow round after grass cutting faster, can have the job don by the time I get the back pack out and on
I use the back pack mostly in winter for large gardens and car parks
Same as James though 1 fuel fill a week is about normal until leaves drop.
I had an argument once with a client's neighbour about leaf blowers. He mentioned an "article" in the Daily Mail which turned out to be an opinion column by John Humphreys and it was obvious that Mr Humphreys has never had to clear a single autumn leaf in his life. I ignored the neighbour, there's no way I'm clearing an acre of garden of leaves with a rake.
John Humphrys made a completely ill informed prick of himself in that article. I thought journalists were supposed to actually research their chosen subject not just spout shite in the daily mail because some groundsmen are disturbing their peace.
If you buy a house next to a park then at some point you are going to hear garden machinery being operated.
That is one of the reasons i have been running Pellenc tools for over four years now. The reduction in noise makes working much more bearable for me and any one in the vicinity. I can't see myself ever going back to 2 stroke - makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Is the Pellenc setup still going strong?
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