IT IS THE BEST THING EVER!! The battery pops out and goes on a charger...I think it is 12 volt but don't quote me on that. This blower works a long time before the battery needs a charge but I bought a second battery/charger so I can swap it out if I need to keep working. The blower works so well that I bought the DeWalt battery operated string trimmer and it works as well as the blower...same battery and charger. I would recommend both all day long. The blower was a game changer for me...I move a crap ton of leaves each fall.

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Mine lasts about 30 minutes or so, and does a very good job on a leafy property.

Get a second battery (a 3rd party one from Amazon. They are much cheaper than B&D's batteries and have done well.)

With a spare battery, you will always have juice. I have a corded one also, but that cord is a REAL pain. I only use it when I have heavy duty jobs.

Almost every day of the year, you can hear a gasoline-powered leafblower at some point during the day. In the fall, of course, it's truly maddening. Maybe the electric and battery-powered ones aren't so bad.


I understand the difficulty of raking lots and lots of leaves. Have you considered just leaving them in place? This article recommends doing that to give pollinators and other invertebrates cover for over-wintering:
https://xerces.org/blog/leave-the-leaves

I may do that in part of my yard, at least. I have a very large oak tree, a tall tulip poplar, and numerous other lesser trees (not to mention the ones that drift over from the neighbors' yards!). I rake the leaves -- a task made easier by using a leaf chute:

I usually end putting 25 or so bags of leaves on the curb every fall, even though I stomp them down to pack them pretty tightly. So I can appreciate what an onerous job it would be to rake a big yard with lots of trees. Maybe this year I'll leave some in place and compost some -- although I don't really have a good place to put a compost bin in my little yard.

My post isn't meant to be critical of you, so I hope you won't take it that way. Just wanted to offer some food for thought.

along with other battery operated yard tools (mower, leaf blower, weed trimmer). I just charge up all the batteries at use them. By the time I get to my third battery, they first one is recharged.

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The snow blower takes about 35 minutes to do my walk, driveway and two neighbor's walks. The two batteries drain about 20% of their energy during that usage.

The hedge trimmers uses one battery on about 40 ft of hedge. My arms wear out before the battery quits.


In other words, modern batteries are such that you are not likely to run out of charge before the task is complete.

in 2015 to a house with a much larger yard, I switched out all my yard equipment as part of our move to lower our carbon footprint. I do not miss the noise, the stink, or the mess of gasoline powered equipment.

In the grassy areas, I just set the electric mower to mulch, and mow them into the grass.