welcome back everybody my name is I'm
not ready for the blower's yet
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welcome back everybody my name is Andrew
and this is kite army so I'm gonna give
you a warning I'm pretty excited today I
mean waiting for this day for about
three years since I did my last beach
ball blower bonanza
check out this table this table is full
of ten of the most popular cordless
blowers available at Home Depot check
them all out and what I'm gonna do today
here is one of my favorite videos the
beach ball blower Bonanza in addition to
some other tests so we're gonna find out
how these guys perform all right so
before we jump into checking out these
blowers and doing some testing I
actually need to talk to you about some
of the numbers you're gonna see when
you're shopping for one of these blowers
there's two types of numbers the first
set is CFM and miles per hour
mph so CFM is cubic feet per minute now
an example is something that moves a lot
of CFM as a box fan but not so good at
moving leaves now miles per hour a great
example of something that gives a lot of
miles per hour is a air compressor but
again since it's a narrow stream it
doesn't do a great job of moving leaves
so you're looking for a blower that has
high CFM and high miles per hour if you
want to move a lot of leaves you're
looking for a performance blower so keep
that in mind now the second thing has to
do with battery power now battery power
there's two numbers voltage and amp
hours now you're gonna see on these
boxes 80 volts 40 volts don't let that
confuse you because there's another side
to the equation amp hours now there's a
formula where you can take those two
numbers and multiply them together to
get something called watt hours and that
gives you the total power density of
these batteries so if you're shopping
for a blower and you're looking for
power and longer runtimes make sure you
consider watt hours remember the higher
the watt hour number the better the
performance now let's go and check out
these models so for the purpose of this
video I'm going to keep the description
of each one of these ten blowers real
simple just the basic features now if
you're looking for more and you're a
glutton for punishment there'll be a
link somewhere down here just be patient
because there are ten blowers I'll try
to get them all out there as soon as I
can now when you're in there looking
those links feel free to meander over
here and hit that subscribe and like I'd
really appreciate that anyway let's go
and check these blowers out
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yowzers that was a lot of information
but don't worry because I have your back
I've got you a spreadsheet so clearly
there's a lot going on in this table but
let me point out to you the things that
I think are most important in the CFM
column the cubic feet per minute the
Toro is rated the highest it's 605 CFM
according to the manufacturer now this
rating makes it 18% higher than the
average in this group now in the
miles-per-hour category the ego at 168
miles per hour was the highest there and
that's 38% higher than the average in
this group now in the battery category
the watt hours again the ego was the
highest at 280 watt hours now that's a
significant 87 percent higher than the
average of this group that's pretty
impressive now the cost we're looking
for the lowest number the ryobi was the
lowest they're at a hundred and sixty
dollars all right guys so we just saw
all the manufacturers numbers and that's
all good and well but here at kite army
were a trust but verify operation
meaning I want to test this stuff so
that's exactly what we're gonna do here
today here's the first test it's a power
test what we're gonna do is we're gonna
put all these blowers on maximum power
turbo we're gonna give you all we got
we're gonna try to raise those balls up
the highest the balls goes the more
power so let's do this
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you've got the power put your fist in
the air like this
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alright guys so we just finished off
test number one and that was the power
test test number two it's just important
it's the battery runtime test so in this
test what we're gonna do is we're gonna
run these blowers as long as we can
until the batteries are fully depleted
now before this test started I charge
the batteries they're topped off they're
ready to go also during this test I'm
gonna try to adjust the blower so the
ball stayed equal height so we can
compare things all equally let's do it
four minutes guys
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guys we're approaching the 20-minute
mark this is a real deal
I still got six blowers working
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it's about 22 minutes in Toro down
snappers now out of the game it's 23 and
a half snappers done Ryobi just win same
time about 23 Milwaukee right at around
26 minutes the Milwaukee Quinn
we're down to two blowers folks we're
down to one blower folks we are left
with the ego let's see how long this
goes for
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alright guys we are still going here
with the ego
at the 40 minute mark
we cook dinner next it's not going the
distance
that was quite a test like last year the
ego came on top on the performance and
the runtime so by show of hands let's
see who does not like beach balls
anymore
so guys I finally finished up the beach
ball blower bonanza test and I feel like
they were very fruitful but I don't want
to do a lot of interpretation like I
normally do during a wrap-up I feel like
those videos stand on their own the one
cool thing is there was some real great
consistency
Black & Decker at the bottom ego at the
top in both tests the power test and the
battery runtime that's pretty cool now
there are are a few standout blowers I
want to talk to you about number one is
Milwaukee and I only have this on the
list because I know some of you out
there that's right I'm talking to you
who are like I'm a Milwaukee guy no
matter what I saw or what you tell me
I'm a Milwaukee guy I have Milwaukee
batteries I'm staying with Milwaukee the
Milwaukee kind of did mid pack it didn't
perform really great or horribly it just
did ok so for those guys you can get a
mediocre blow if you like the second
blow I'd like to talk about is the works
this guy is actually one of the cheapest
and it's absolutely the lightest in the
category so if you have a very small
property and you're looking for a very
light blower definitely considered it
works now the ryobi was the third blower
I'd like to talk to you about the ryobi
again did OK and I know some of you are
looking for the lowest cost blower and
this is absolutely the lowest cost of my
list however you do sacrifice a lot with
this blower for example it's not a
brushless motor like many of the other
blowers the bill construction and
quality it's just not there feels like a
really cheap throwaway blower it might
work for you though so the fourth blower
on the list is the ego now this
shouldn't be a surprise to any of you
and that is because the ego had the most
power and ran the longest in fact
speaking of running the longest it ran a
total of 40 minutes which was 15 minutes
longer than its nearest competitor it
gave me enough time as you saw in that
little video to break everything down
and it was still running it was really
impressive the other impressive thing
about the ego is just the build quality
you
look at it and see this is a quality
rugged piece of equipment anyway with
that guys I need to get out of here so
please make sure you subscribe to my
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other content and I'll see you guys
around real soon I didn't feel that
beats ball blower Bonanza that was
working good shot me