DRD wrote

"DRD" wrote in message
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I need to buy one anm not sure of few things:

1. How much difference the watts make? i.e. 1800w or 2400w?

2. What is mulchies rating mean - i.e. 10:1 say?

3. How good are they for wet leaves?

1. Obviously 2400w is going to blow or suck at a greater rate than 1800w but
blowers are usually sold by their maximum volume moving capacity expressed
in metres cubed/hour e.g. 600meters cubed/hour or there maximun wind
velocity e.g. 130 mph. The best manufacturers can blow to a maximum of
around 750 meters cubed per hour.

2. If you normally fill 10 sacks with leaves when you use the brush and
shovel method then they claim the mulching element of their machine will
reduce this to 1 sack of leaves.

Personally this is a rather big claim, but I'm damned if I'm going to sweep
up all my leaves to see how many bags it will fill then empty them out again
and use the vac to see by how many bags it reduces it by! By what I see in
my machine the mulcing element in the vac is the fan blade which creates the
airflow and by using it on vacuum it just pulls the debris through this fan
thereby mulching it, this can only have the effect of :- a. damaging the fan
blade and reducing its power or b. cause an extra load on the motor and
burning or wearing it out quicker.

3. On vacuum....... no, infact I no longer use my blower/vac on vacuum,
epecially on wet or damp ground, as I spend more time than it is worth
unblocking the thing, plus as you vac the machine gets heavier and you need
to keep emptying it so often.

I find it best to blow all the leaves/debris into one corner then bag it up
from there. the more power the blower has the better it deals with wet
leaves.

Jeff

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