I think they are all pretty same in comparrison and more where to invest battery brands. I was walking thru the farm and fleet and saw a dewalt with a design similar to a handheld gas model-caught my interest.

 

Probably dewalt or Milwaukee, depending on the color you like more, though I just steer clear of any electric powered equipment

 

I like the Ego 530. Bought it back when I first started 3 years ago. Still use it for small jobs where I don’t want to use my Stihl 450

 

Ego 650cfm most powerful right now. More powerful than any gas hh.

I carry a few 5ah batts for it though. Drains fast on turbo but it’s still preferred over gas hh for convenience and power.

 

Greenworks commercial or get a Stihl backpack battery, these are reliable and powerful. Ego batteries are **** I use them because they have a good warranty. Don't need one for Stihl and greenworks commercial 82vm You don't need wacky batteries acting up on top of regular day to day shenanigans

 

mikita works for us

 

Makita is my preference, i have the 4 cycle backpack blower, but have the 18x2 trimmer and chainsaw, couldnt be happier, just did 3 yards with the trimmer and batteries still have full charge today

seen the blower on youtube, seems likes it performs good, but can suck the battery down?

also, i do own a ryobi 40v jet blower, i like it for around the house use,its quick and small, can be used to blow out garage, (even blow debri off wood kitchen floor to carpet and vacuum), and its safe enough to let my kids use it

 

Have couple seasons on the ego batts snd no problems. Biggest problem w/any battery blower is they don’t come close to gas bp power or runtime.

hh’s are convenient tools but used sparingly here.

 

 

EGO 650 here. One 5.0 amp hr. battery knocks out my normal size residential yard no problem. Love the turbo to always be powering through.

 

I'm also interested in one for the spray truck to use for blowing fert off sidewalk and something that takes up very little room compared to backpack. But today I did 32 jobs, yesterday 37, day before 30 etc. Don't know if one battery is going to last all day and heck the batteries are almost as much as the blowers.

 

Yes, EGO gouges on batteries, but believe they sell an inverter that may keep a couple juiced for ya on the go. My blower, 14 inch. chainsaw, trimmer, and edger all live off one battery. "Tool only" option is reasonable.

 

Ive got the ego hedge trimmer. So I was leaning towards ego just cause I have a another battery I can swap. But I'm not hostage to it if there is something that is way better. Only use that trimmer on tiny jobs. The larger ones get the redmax articulating mids.

 

Need the hedge next. Have toyed with snow blower. Can’t justify.

 

I highly recommend the hedge trimmer, the 2.5 battery last pretty long when hedge trimming

 

I consider batteries as gas cans and have several for each brand

 

None the battery single stage snowblower has the “power propel” like all gas single stagers. The batt units keep the rubber paddles from contacting the ground to save batt life. This means you get vastly inferior packed snow cleaning and you got to push. No thanks.

 

Just carry extra batts like you would gas. I got bunch of batts rattling around truck bed