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Initial Performance Test: Frozen Wet Leaves

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Testing the Best Outdoor Power tools- Battery VS Gas

What happens here

Locate a pile of frozen, wet leaves. Position both the gas-powered Echo blower and the EGO battery blower side-by-side. Activate both blowers simultaneously and direct their air streams towards the pile of leaves. Observe and compare the effectiveness of each blower in dislodging and moving the heavy, frozen debris. Repeat the test with both blowers, focusing on their ability to clear larger sections of leaves along a natural slope or embankment. Pay attention to how quickly each blower can lift and propel the leaves, indicating raw power and efficiency under challenging conditions.

Goal: Compare the power and effectiveness of both blowers on difficult leaf piles.

Tools and materials

  • Drone DJI Mavic — Recording overhead footage of the test
  • Echo PB-580T Gas Leaf Blower Echo — Moving frozen wet leaves
  • EGO Commercial Backpack Blower — Moving frozen wet leaves
  • GoPro Camera GoPro — Recording first-person footage from each blower
  • Frozen Wet Leaves N/A — Testing the blowers' ability to move difficult debris

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switch so this is bad this is pure battery Frankie's running 100% battery on it and we're fully charged Oh fully charged that's how you tell five hours to recharge that fully charged here - so it's frozen the leaves are frozen we're gonna let's let's pile dry both of these into the leaf pile and see which one can loosen up the leaves and then we'll do it over the small so we'll get we'll get all the cameras rolling here and see how they do and yeah now can you guys switch backpacks so just in case these guys go to all Frankie's doing it this way and Jake's doing it this way they can get a better idea

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