Low noise equipment

[Nitro]

Does anyone know which brand of blowers, edgers, and string trimmers has the lowest noise output?

[Evan528]

I no echo has recently come out with a line of quiet back pack blowers.... I assume there alot more money though.

[toddman35]

it seems that to get less quite equitment you would have to sacrafice power? is that right? Have you tried hearing protection? thats always an option.

[bob]

The Shindaiwa handheld blower has a 67dbA rating and the EB480 backpack has a 69dbA rating. I think most manufacturers have some type of low noise equipment.

[Richard Martin]

I recently aqquired a Echo PB46LN blower which had a 65db noise rating. The machine was very heavy, around 25 lbs. Since I wear hearing protection and we have no max noise regs here I removed all of the sound deadening from the machine. It is now under 20lbs.

[gusbuster]

If you want a quiet blower, go with Solo's new model Model 470 . The Solo company invented the backpack blower back way when, but shindiawa, redmax, sthil are better known products. The Solo does have some quite impressive numbers for a quiet blower.

As toddman35 was saying or asking, when you go to quiet models, you do sacrafice some power. The technology however is catching up.

In my area that I work, more cities are either making new ordinances about how much noise your machine can make or banning them outright. If noise is an issue in your area, i would compromise and go with the quiet models. I can tell you that I will never go back to the most powerful models unless their noise level is at the 62db that my toro is.
John

[Cutter1]

I have a shindaiwa eb480. Its quiet, but its like using a toy compared to my eb630. Wear ear protection.