To all my lefties out there...

[O'BrienLawn&Landscape]

So i was blowing off a condo complex today when i started to think. All backpack blowers are right handed. Now this might sound stupid but for a left handed person does this make it difficult what so ever or do you kinda have to get used to it or what?

[AndyTblc]

Nope I'm left handed and I use my back pack just fine.

[Mike Blevins]

No its not a hard task like trying to write with your opposite hand. Its pretty much like drinking with your opposite hand. Nothing special. I don't know how most people use a trimmer but I throttle with my right hand and hold down on the handle with the left. It sometimes sends the rocks and debree into my shins.

[Beau Rivage]

No, it's just like most other things made for righties...you have no choice but to learn it right handed so you just get on with it. After a short while you're completely used to it and would find it difficult to switch even if they started making them for lefties.

[landscaper22]

I have no problems with the blowers. The only thing I find awkward is the pull cord on some equipment, especially push mowers, that are designed for right handed people. But you just adapt.

[Runner]

Now that's what I wish they had...a bp blower that had a starter recoil that could be easier reached while the blower is still on your back. I can reach around with my left arm, pull the recoil part way out and toward the front, then pull (push out sideways) and start the blower, but I think that is how I originall tore my rotator cuff.

[mngrassguy]

No its not a hard task like trying to write with your opposite hand. Its pretty much like drinking with your opposite hand. Nothing special. I don't know how most people use a trimmer but I throttle with my right hand and hold down on the handle with the left. It sometimes sends the rocks and debree into my shins.

Same here and I walk backwards most of the time. Tried it right handed but my arms got tired real fast.:laugh:

[Escapeslawncare]

No but edging is a bit**. They need to make a lefty edger, and Glock

[Space Coast Cracker]

I have minimal problems being left handed. Just have to start a weedeater like a righty and swing it around to start weedeating(forward). Personally I think using the weedeater left handed works very well! With an edger you need to use it left and right handed. I edge driveways and sidedwalks righty unless an object is in the way(car etc.) and I do flowerbed borders lefty. Anything gets comfortable with enought repetion.

[Grassmechanic]

another lefty in a right handed world. As others say, you get used to it - blowers, pruners, chainsaws, etc.

[grassaholic]

I was just talking to my partner about this today! My take was a little different. Would any of you guys like a backpack blower where the tube could swivel to either the left side or right side? I've been running the backpack blower alot lately doing leaf cleanups. After running the damn thing for awhile my hand starts going numb. At the end of the day my right arm gets a little sore. I was thinking how great it would be if I could switch hands throughout the day when blowing. That way I could give each arm an equal workout and give my right hand that keeps going numb a break.

[mngrassguy]

I switch hands all the time. I just give my right arm a break every once in a while. I find walking backwards when using my left arm works best.

[grassaholic]

I switch hands all the time. I just give my right arm a break every once in a while. I find walking backwards when using my left arm works best.

How do you use your left arm on a backpack blower when the tube is on the right side?

[ovalracer44]

Making a lefthanded blower would require the manufacturer designing an engine that worked in opposite rotation.

[mngrassguy]

How do you use your left arm on a backpack blower when the tube is on the right side?

Reach over and grab the handle on the tube with your left hand. My Echos have handles on the tubes.

[grassaholic]

Reach over and grab the handle on the tube with your left hand. My Echos have handles on the tubes.

Thats pretty akward! I've tried that with my BR 600 [ has a handle on the tube] and can't do much like that. Maybe in a wide open area. Most of the time I'm walking around in landscape beds blowing leaves out.

[LawnNeedz]

It looks like there are quite a few south paws on LS. I guess it is all about what you get used to. There are several things that I can not do left handed due to the fact that I was taught to do them right handed. For instance shooting a gun! My stepdad is left handed but golfs right handed. I guess that is why we have a shorter life expectancy. Nothing was made for us!

[mngrassguy]

I do almost everything left handed except golf. Eye dominance is the most important thing in all aiming sports such as shooting. Hold your finger over a distant object, close one eye. If the object is still covered with your finger, you just found your dominant eye.

[Grassmechanic]

It looks like there are quite a few south paws on LS. I guess it is all about what you get used to. There are several things that I can not do left handed due to the fact that I was taught to do them right handed. For instance shooting a gun! My stepdad is left handed but golfs right handed.

I shoot both left and right handed with no difference, but I use my dominant left eye. I play hockey with a right handed stick and use right hand scissors/pruners, but just about everything else is left handed.