What's up plant family? Devin is here and recently the brand AOTree reached out to me
regarding this leaf blower. They asked me to do an assembly and use in the garden to give my
honest opinion about how I like this leaf blower. It's all electric, non-gas, uses 20 volt batteries
it's lightweight, less than five pounds. So I thought that would be a good opportunity to show
you guys all about this leaf blower to see if it's worth using in your garden. So let's take a look
how to get it assembled. All right, so let's take it out of the box, get it assembled, and see how
it goes. This is the blower tube. This is what's going to actually attach to our motor, and then
it comes with a couple different hosels, a more narrower one, and then a wider one, which is good
for wet leaves or more compacted leaves. It also comes with some nice goggles. They're quite
comfortable, actually, and they look good. And next, you can see here's the brushless motor. Now
this is very quiet. When it's on, it's less than 65 decibels in its loudness, which is like normal
conversation. So it's not going to be super loud like all of those gas-powered ones. And then it
comes with a nice shoulder strap which is great It only weighs 4 pounds but having that shoulder strap is a nice little addition to make sure you know if you out blowing leaves for 30 minutes that you feeling good And it comes with two 20 batteries
Each of the batteries lasts like, I would say, 20 minutes or so
And so now we get it assembled. Just get that blower tube on, add your hosel
You got your shoulder strap clipped in. And last but not least, we just need to get our battery pack plugged in
And once you got that, you are all ready to go. The assembly was like three minutes, so don't be stressing about putting it together, that's for sure
All right, so let's get that shoulder strap on, give it a try. Let's go test out this leaf blower
And the first thing that I notice is that it's quite lightweight, but it actually packs quite a nice, powerful punch
It's noted that the speed of the wind is about 150 miles per hour, which is pretty strong
But my favorite thing about it is it has a speed lock so that when you actually pull the trigger and then you can twist that knob and then it kind of locks it in place so that you can use it without having to have your finger on that trigger all the time
That really saves a lot of pressure off of your finger, which is really nice
But if you want to go into turbo mode you have a button right there for turbo You do have to keep that pressed down all the time Now you can see it works pretty good for driveways for decks This is definitely a great leaf blower
for smaller gardens. If you have a huge yard like I do, it's going to be part of your arsenal for
cleaning up the leaves. You'll probably still want to use your rake in some locations and your lawn
sweeper as well. But overall, for smaller gardens, I got to say the size, the compactness, the battery
power, non-gas. This is a great leaf blower for this price. Absolutely. All right. So after having
used this leaf blower for a couple of hours, I have a few conclusions that I'd like to make
Number one, I love how lightweight it is. Number two, it's quite powerful for how small it is
It's also very quiet. So, you know, if you're listening to a podcast, listening to music
you can still hear what you're listening to while using this leaf blower. I know with the gas
powered one you definitely cannot. It also is far superior than having a corded leaf blower
I have a corded one and this works just as well as that corded one. Benefit being I'm not stuck
to the plug and you know a hundred foot long cord running through my yard The downside is that the batteries are not super long Each one lasted about 20 minutes or so I was not using the turbo I didn find the turbo to be necessary
I found that if you just turn it on and then do your speed lock
each battery lasted about 20 minutes, which is pretty good because they charge in about an hour
So you can get a good 40 minutes in and then the next day you can continue doing your job
doing your work outside. If you have a large garden like I do, I've got three acres, tons of trees
This is going to be a good part of your leaf cleaning plan, but this is not going to be the be all and end all
If you have less than about a quarter acre of garden, yard space, deck, driveway, this is going to be perfect
It's light enough for my wife to use. It's strong enough for me to get what I need to get done
And it's very easy to manage with this shoulder strap. So all in all, I'd rate this as a great, you know, small yard leaf blower
If you're interested in purchasing one, simply go down to the description below where you'll find a link to these leaf blowers
They're quite reasonably priced. Anyways, thank you guys for joining me here on Plant Vibrations
I'll catch you soon. Ciao