With this great 2022 pecan fiasco... we have been running a Stihl 800 CE Magnum (or something like that)... borrowed from a friend

Good machine and I know it's the biggest Stihl makes.

Does anyone make a stronger one?

Or a Better one?

Stihl stuff is kinda scare at the moment.

I know it is going to cost $600+... that is fine. I would go to $900 for a better stronger one.

Thanks in advance for any intel.

Take a look at the Billy Goat Blower....

I have a Shindaiwa and it is stout for sure

I have a husky, neighbor has a stihl....both solid performers. The echo and shindiawa would also make my cut.

Husky’s biggest seems to have more power than stihls biggest, I’ve used them both but not side by side though.

I am partial to Redmax blowers but I don't know how the specs compare with the Stihl.

Take a look at the specs on a RedMaxx 8550 .

Yep that’s the same as the biggest husky I believe, I’ve used them both commercially and that’s the direction I’d go whichever one is available local.

Garden Weasel

https://www.seedsandspades.com/most-powerful-leaf-blowers/

A ride on or walk behind would blow away any backpack

Agree on the Redmax !

If your playing for keeps on a large piece of land with lots of leaves then a walk behind wheeled unit will smoke any backpack units. I would assume the same would hold true with your pecan gathering.

on our large commercial/industrial & military base building jobs we always use the biggest gas Husqvarna backpack blowers to blow out debri, rocks, sawdust etc out of the concrete forms before the mud flows ... nothing else has as much guts and durability, damn flatfoot laborers can be hard on equipment

I bought a Husky 150bt from Home Depot. I know that isn't the speed you are looking for though.

If you bought 3 cans of their premix, they extended the warranty to 3 years, not sure if they still do it.

I've had it about 5 years now - still starts on the 3rd try just like it did on day 1.

I can't say its better than a Stihl or not, although I do have a Stihl hand carry blower that's been put thru the ringer and keeps on running. I like the Husky because its pretty quiet.

I also have a Ryobi backpack - I can't keep it running but when it does, its a bat out of hell with wind speed. Much more velocity than the comparable Stihl or Husky

I like the reliability of the husky and it was about $150 less than the Stihl. The wife likes it because she can start it and put it on without help.

One thing you might want to take into consideration is their product support record…”carb parts etc.”….

The Echo PB 9010T is the most powerful blower on the market for now. I run two of them and have one of the Stihl 800 blowers. The Stihl is only a backup. No comparison in the power. The Stihl feels like a hand blower after using the Echo.

I bought the biggest Echo backpack model last year. It'll make you throw your rakes in the trash.

I have one neighbor whose blower sounds like a C5 Galaxy powering up. Don't know what it is. Another neighbor has a new Stihl. It's not as loud. I don't think either one of them works well, as it takes them longer to blow whatever it is that they blow, than it does for me to cut, edge and halfass blow (with a quiet electric blower) my entire property. Our lots are all the same size.

Whatever you end up with, from my observations, it will convert you to an idiot, if you aren't one already. I'll go ahead and politely suggest that you stuff the thing up your ass. With all due disrespect of course.

Gentlemen...

Thank you most kindly. The Campfire is always an amazing resource for advice on various things.

The Billy Goat walk behind or various self propelled models never even occurred to me. Not what I need on this project or property, but I can really see a use for many.

I had heard of RedMax, Echo and Husky, but had no experience. No one recommended the Makita 76cc Four stroke.

Thanks for the intel.



That is where I am leaning.

I like Stilh and having matching parts ((?)... air filters and plugs at least) has a small piece of logic.

"No comparison in the power"... I like that... I'll study the Echo some more.

I worked for a medium sized city street division. We used Echos. Ran 'em 10 hrs a day for 4-6 weeks every year depending on the weather. In 10 yrs, rarely had a problem.

We did not treat them with kid gloves. They got tossed, they got dropped, and they got bounced around in the rack on the truck. I bought one.

The Echo has more power than a Stihl, for $100-ish less.

I have had a Stihl BR 600 for years and am more than pleased.

When I did this commercially, we used RedMax blowers and trimmers... that was many years back. They ran flawlessly and were not treated kindly at all.

That said, I have an Echo line trimmer and blower now and they never bobble...one to two pulls to start even after sitting for months. Both are 15ish years old and haven't had a thing done to em...ever.


This doesn't answer your question on power or cfm, etc but from a reliability perspective, I can recommend Echo and RedMax

I love throwing that backpack blower on when it snows.Throw my shovel in the trash too

In my experience, the trick is to not have any neighbors close enough to bother by running a blower/chainsaw/log-splitter, etc.

I was kinda thinking the same thing... I don't have a fancy bicycle or Louis Vuitton spandex... but we do have a few acres here and there.

Thanks

We use / have all of the Stihl trimmers, edgers, kombi units and blowers. All work but we are changing over to all Echo equipment as soon as warranties run out of the Stihl equipment. We have had zero issues with Echo and already replaced two Stihl trimmer motors and a carburetor on an edger. Our Stihl 800 backpack blower is a “side pull “ that I hate! I prefer the standard pull start on a backpack blower. I don’t have good tricep strength in my left arm so it’s pretty much useless too me. JMO

If my Stihl BR 600 ever dies, I will buy one these new turbo nitrous jet engine muthascratchers. Woowee! I found the BR600 would do all I needed, but then again, there’s at least a little Tim the Toolman Taylor in all of us.

Copy that...

I'll be pushing huge piles of magnolia pods (enough to fill my dump truck).

I will also use it to cut fire line as need be in WV.

I am honestly looking for a Stihl BR 1200 CE... if Stihl made one.

We all have different needs I reckon.

Tim the tool man leaf blower would be the ticket

Uh that would be the Binford Model 5000XL Deluxe.

I have a Stihl that is below that one, and I got a new "nozzle" for the end that channels the air into a flatter, and faster flow. It doesn't race the RPMs, so it doesn't do any harm. It made all the difference in moving around the Sweetgum Tree balls that plague my yard.

I would go Stihl. I was looking through my Warranty file for something else and noticed the dates on my Stihl owners manuals. The newest was 9 years old and they all get used. I have never done anything with any of the 4 tools but blow the dust out of the air filter. And keep them full of real gas and Stihl oil. They all Start.easily and run till I get tired of running them.