Which piece of outdoor power tool/equipment that you own is your favorite to operate?
Which piece of outdoor power tool/equipment that you own is your favorite to operate? 21 votes
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Leaf Blower
EGO leaf blower. 765 cfm at the push of a button. Open all four car doors and press the trigger: instant clean interior. Aim at weak fire and press the trigger: raging fire. Aim at clogged shop vac filter and press the trigger: clean filter.
Soooo many uses. I hear they even move leaves!
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Snowblower
My current use case for leaf blowers is gutter cleaning and blowing off the deck. I'm mostly a leaf rake guy in the fall.
Our dryer vent only has like 10" of pipe between the dryer on the outside so doesn't really need lots of cleaning (which is a great use BTW for a leaf blower).
I need to get a cordless one, but I'm a cheapo Ryobi kind of guy.
Used to have on of those oil burning Stihls but left that at my parents house when I moved from Utah back to Seattle.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Leaf blowers are the dumbest lazy man tool ever invented. Shut that noisy bitch off and get a rake.
I like all of my assortment of battery powered DeWalt tools. I'd say the big impact gun is my favorite as it makes changing tires a breeze. I use the angle grinder and reciprocating saw a lot too though.
Weed eating is her job. The DeWalt weed eater is pretty damn nice though.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Zelle to my gardner
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Snowblower
E tu @RaceBannon ? Have you gone charmin soft like @creepycoug and hire out the landscaping?
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Powerwasher
The cuntry club handles mowing/edging/trimming. I've done tree work with a chainsaw and while it's fun a couple of times I'm over that now. Powerwashing though makes everything look brand new, at least for a week or 2.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
I hire creeps people
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hey now
my people were writing poetry while yours were still swinging in trees.
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Log Splitter
I don't split enough wood to need one, yet. It's very satisfying when I've used one and the almost effortless firewood is really nice. I don't particularly enjoy using any of the other tools while owning 90% of them
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Log Splitter
@whlinder So goddam noisy, takes the fun out of it for me. The results, I love
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Lawn Mower (ride on or push)
I sometimes use mine to push my youngest around the cul-de-sac on his trike.
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Lawn Mower (ride on or push)
Riding mower. Not even a close decision for me.
And BTW us tuff semi-rural suburban guys call them lawn tractors because we actually hook shit up to them for towing, spreading and spraying, etc.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
My people were cutting down trees and building boats to loot Europe and beyond
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Snowblower
#metoo
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
UTV. Handy as shit for everything from snow plowing to hauling shit and general four wheeling through the woods
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Snowblower
@creepycoug 's ancestors were too busy praying to Allah while our TUFF Swedes were sweeping onward with threshing oar.
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Snowblower
I wish I had a big enough lawn for a lawn tractor with a beer holder. But alas, that kind of dirt is like $4 million and up where I live.
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Leaf Blower
This was a tough choice for me. Mrs Nacho has posted pictures of me on Facebook cutting wood with the chainsaw with the caption, “nothing makes that fatass happier than using his chainsaw”. It’s quite satisfying.
I owned a snowblower for the 18 months I lived in the Chicago burbs. Also highly satisfying. I enjoyed it so much I was clearing off the sidewalk 3-4 houses on either side of mine.
The downside to both tools is that the usage is limited. I live on a small urban lot because I’m a man of the people so not a lot of chainsaw work and the snow isn’t frequent enough to qualify owning a snowblower.
What I do have a metric shit ton of is leaves. No trees sit 100% inside my yard, 2-3 straddle the property line and I have another 10 trees bordering my yard. Add in the walnuts and hackberries and I spend most of fall trying to keep my backyard and driveway clean.
And for the commies who are pissing and moaning that the leaf blower is too loud, I say this: you can have my leaf blower when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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Leaf Blower
Ryobi or any other power tool maker sucks you in once you buy anything with their removable batteries.
I know Ryobi is an inferior product to all the others but I’m already invested and not going to make that change. My garage looks like the goddamn Oregon locker room with all those neon grellow tools.
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Snowblower
Ryobi is fine for my needs. I'm not a contractor and don't need DeWalt or Milwaukee level gear.
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Snowblower
My neighbor and I went in 50/50 on one of these when I moved here. Gets used about 7- 8 times a winter and is very clutch. Kiddies start cruising our sidewalks at 725 AM to get to school and you have to get the snow off before it gets compacted, lest it turn to death ice that will break someone's hip. I love firing this thing up at 7AM (the first legal moment) to piss off some of my pussy neighbors. Just changed the oil for the first time after 4 season. @1to392831weretaken would be proud of me.
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Powerwasher
I'll agree the noise is annoying, but most of these have noise anyway.
A snowblower would be a once per decade use here, but with the sidewalk on the other side of the street and my house facing south with the driveway angled upwards I get a lot of melting support, plus I am good to shovel.
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Leaf Blower
All about the batteries. I never want to own another thing with a tiny carburetor on it. String trimmer, snow blower, lawn tractor, leaf blower, chainsaw: all batteries.
It's nearly impossible for anyone here to have more Dewalt tools than me (not a fan, just locked into the battery system like said above), but their early string trimmer sucked dick. Died in three uses, then the replacement died in two. The EGO string trimmer is superior in every way. I ended up going EGO for yard tools and DeWalt for everything else.
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Snowblower
I have a Honda mower (160 CC) that I bought used from that store on Aurora across from 7-11 back in like 2015. Finally changed its oil too…ha, ha. Runs like a fucking champ. When it dies, I'll consider and electric mower but until then…nah.
I don't see electric ever being a solution to heavy duty snow blowing. I have some neighbors with an electric snow "thrower" and that thing it worthless as tits on a boar for any decent amount of snow.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
My father in law has the same unit and did the same. Actually he bought it and his neighbors pay their part by cleaning his driveway with it. It's very easy and nice to use. He can actually handle it fine himself and this is an 84 y/o guy who takes a couple of minutes to climb a short flight of stairs
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Weed Wacker or Edger
perfect lines from the edger give my OCD mind a hard on. It’s also instant gratification and the details of the details when it comes to proper lawn maintenance.
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Leaf Blower
If they can get a 5000 pound car to 60 mph in two seconds with electric, I think they'll eventually crack the snow throwing code… For what it's worth, I don't even have the most powerful EGO snow blower, and it kicked ass clearing my 2500 square foot driveway when it was buried under 6" of wet snow last winter. I share it with my brother, and he clears his whole road with it so he can get out.
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Leaf Blower
Exactly
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Snowblower
In theory, something like this guy could have enough charge to work for our couple of driveways, back alley and sidewalks. But damn they are spendy at $1400 with batteries. And you gotta promise me those batteries won't catch on fire.
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Lawn Mower (ride on or push)
Just store it in one of your Duck neighbors' garages.
