Greenworks80V (180 MPH / 610 CFM / 75+ Compatible Tools) Cordless Brushless Backpack Blower, Tool Only

The media could not be loaded.  Easy to assemble right out of the box, just follow the instructions closely, not that much to do. Once assembled, I waited for a decent weather day in February here in Michigan to test it out. I already had two 80V 4ah batteries from my Greenworks power mower I recently purchased, that’s why I ordered the tool only. I had an area on my property I didn’t get to during fall cleanup (using my old gas powered backpack blower) so was anxious to test it out during a mild 50 degree February day on 2/12/23. I inserted a battery and WOW, was so impressed from the moment I squeezed the trigger. It is very powerful. I am very pleased with its performance, even to blow stubborn leaves embedded in ground cover as you can see in my video. I hardly even needed to use the turbo function but did at times for testing purposes. It’s lighter than my old gas backpack blower and also more comfortable to wear. I operated it around 30 minutes total with/without turbo, mostly without because it’s powerful enough without, but there will be times to utilize turbo and you will know when. I highly recommend it if you want a great, powerful blower that doesn’t require gas/oil, spark plug, air filter, etc. It actually exceeded my already high expectations! I’m a 73 year old man with some mobility issues so appreciate the advantages of this particular blower. Love it! I’m glad I already have the two 4ah batteries to take advantage of purchasing just the blower. It’s always nice to have a spare battery.

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I had the 80v snowblower and started looking for leaf blowers and settled on this one. I'm impressed by the power but this is not at the same level as the normal gas blowers that I've used. It's about the same level as a mid level hand blower (better than the cheap less powerful ones). It works for everything I need it to do. The backpack part really isn't necessary since it's not THAT heavy but it is nice to only have to move the tube with your hand to blow leaves around and not the whole unit like normal.The only downsides are the battery life and a strange hiccup now and again. I can do snowblowing for a long time but this eats up energy fast even without the super power button. There's also time and again where the motor starts to spin up and then stops and I have to wait for a few seconds and then try again. It works fine otherwise so it's mostly just annoying.Overall I would buy again as it works well for my needs (I don't need the long run times so bad) and I technically could upgrade to a 4Ah battery for longer runs (for $200+...ouch). If I didn't already have the 80v battery system I probably would have looked around more.Not dealing with 2 stroke gas engines (aka gas mixing and hard starts) is so much better.

Here are my suggestions. Buy this item A La Carte. Buy the blower, charger and a 4 amp 80 volt battery. This battery gives you about 30 minutes of high speed run time. I think this will cost you about $100 more purchased A La Carte like this. The 2.5 Amp battery just doesn't give you enough time (15 minutes on full sepeed) unless you have a tiny area to do. If you can afford it buy this unit as is with an extra 4 Amp battery. This unit gives you about 66% to 70% of the power of my 30 year old Ready Max gas blower but with the 4 amp battery it only weighs 14 lbs vs 30 lbs for a fueld gasblower. My gas blower takes 5 or 6 pulls to start, and you have to buy and mix gas and oil. Check the date on the bottom of each item you receive it's in tiny wrting but its there. If its old, more tha a year, return it for a newer unit. Charging the battery: So you don't have start and stop issues like some other reviewer mentioned and it doesn't tell you this in the directions, when you get it charge it for 10-12 hours before using. Then use and let the battery deplete and recharge a few times . You have to use the unit to depleat the battery. In my opinion if you have a decent size yard you should have 2, 4 Amp batteries giving you about an hr run time on high. Otherwise its kind of a pain as you run out of power just as your leaves hit the neighbors driveway. I found I kept sweeping the driveway as it would run out at inoprtune times and you then have to wait for a new charge you can't just get more gas and fill up like you can with a gas blower.. I would not buy the larger batteries, 5 AMP as they cost to much and they get heavy. PS. In my opinion the hand held blowers are a waste of money. I tried and returned two and they are heavy on your wrist and body and to make them work better you need the large batteries maing them even heavier. Anything less than 80 Volts does not have enough power to blow leaves. I found customer Service at the company to be excellent.

This is my first battery powered blower. I’ve had corded and gas power. Corded was light but leashed, gas was heavy and smelly, both felt easily capable of delivering highly directed wind speeds.Until now all I’ve owned were in line blowers, I figured I’d splurge a little on a backpack battery powered. I’d already bought into the greenworks lineup and been very pleased. This blower is good, just different.It works really well and I’m easily able to complete all blowing in less than 1 charge. And the backpack is comfortable! What’s not to love?3 little things1. whistle a mid to high note. This is all my previous blowers, no open the ‘O’ of your lips to whistle the lowest note you can, that’s this blower. Oh it moves leaves and watch out when you hit that turbo button, it’s impressive, yet the airstream doesn’t feel like it’s as constricted and vectored for the rpms, but it sounds like it ramps up to much higher rpms than my other blowers2. For the pice I expected it to not feel so cheap plasticky, I don’t think it will break, but fit and finish aren’t great3. I figured an electric backpack blower would be less awkward largely due to the semi rigid flexi tube that forms the 90 degree bend from the backpack to the whatever the wand? Thing is called. Comfortable while blowing and the rigidity makes it effortlessly light, but getting it on and storing it are a bit more cumbersome than I expectedThe sum up: totally recommended without reservations, the little things haven’t impeded any functionality.