No RS, I have not. My powerful leaf blower is electric and with several external power points all around my plot, the amply long lead allows good blowing to every corner of the plot. What I would like is a method of bagging up the leaves without stooping, but as yet I have not found anything suitable.
I’ve got 2 petrol leaf blowers, a Stihl and a Webb.
had a game of blow football with them in the garden about year ago, great fun but noisy LOL
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Just an electric blower here.
Justspent this morning servicing the small petrol engines on the chainsaw- hedgecutter and leaf blower. First was dealing with the air filters, some of which have never been touched same as a couple of spark plugs. Rather pleased with myself as they all start so much easier.
You don’t believe in regular maintenance then? I have always been under the impression that small engines need a service after every 10 or so hours of operation (or once a year if you don’t have a timer on them)
I don’t know how you got to think that Bruce, someone may have misinformed you
It is in the manuals that come with them. Perhaps you didn’t read them?
We have a backpack leaf blower.
It does a good job and we just blow the leaves into the forest. I’m not certain of the motor size.
Actually this is true.
You’d change the spark plug
Clean off spark arrester .
Maybe blow out dirt in motor with an air compressor.
Stuff like that.
They are outrageously noisy. 
We wear ear muffs.
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I honesty thought that this machine was due for the scrap heap. Could not get it started. So tinkered around with it and did the necessary pre start routine. that is removing the spark plug and giving it a couple of pulls on the chord to clean the carburettor etc and it started
Sounds a lot of effort just for a bit of a blow job 
Doesn’t a leaf blower just deposit the leaves somewhere else and as soon as the wind blows, they all come back?
I rake them up with my spring rake and bag em…They don’t usually climb out of the bin even when the wind blows…
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You are correct Foxy, what is going on here is all about the FOMO’s and devices, no stoppin this now.
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Forever Autumn 
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Still not over happy with the leaf blower, it runs fast then slow, so made the decision to update So have on order a 4 stoke honda leaf blower. no more trying to get the fuel mix right and is quieter as well
Honda make good engines, my first motor bike was a Honda fifty…
If the leaf blower is crap, at least you could have a day out at the seaside on it…
I’m going all electric, it is so much quieter…
Perhaps not my mower and my whipper snipper (at least, not yet)
Can’t be doing with rechargeable stuff unless I have to. My mower plugs into the mains, as does my vacuum cleaner for the car and workshop. For proper man size jobs I prefer my mains electric drill, it’s always ready for use. Mrs Fox’s general purpose vacuum cleaner is rechargeable (her choice) and with all the other recharegeable stuff there’s hardly a socket in the house that doesn’t have something recharging in it… 
I used to be that way but now I never use my mains powered equipment. The battery stuff is ready to go at a moments notice anywhere with no trailing leads getting in the way.
My mains powered router, drills, circular saws, are never used at all, I even have a battery powered chainsaw which I used yesterday to lop some trees. The only battery powered tool I don’t have is an angle grinder but these days I rarely use it anyway.
My grass cutting is all petrol,powered though and my vacuum cleaner is mains though I prefer my carpet sweeper which doesn’t need any power.
I have a couple of 5Ah batteries, a 3Ah and a 1.5Ah. They make ideal gifts to suggest to relatives who are at a loss for what to give you. The batteries last a remarkably long time before they need charging again
If I had known that I was going down this path I would not have originally bought a Makita drill because Makita stuff is expensive and more suitable for tradesmen. We happy amateurs would be better off with Ryobi at half the price… The problem is that you are stuck with a battery system (though you can buy adapters now)
Over the years I have accumulated:
Drill
Impact driver
Multi tool
Reciprocating saw
Circular saw
Chainsaw
Blower
Router
All 18v Makita, basically everything I ever need . I do have a mains powered compound mitre saw in the shed.which is very handy.
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