Who Else Has Milwaukee Small Blower?

[Dan in Pasadena]

I just bought the M18 160mph, 100CFM blower yesterday and I'm torn whether I will keep it or not.

I'm wondering how it compares to their larger but slower 120mph blower which moves a lot more air? 100cfm vs. a claimed 450cfm (seems really high).

I have a small suburban lot and have been using a corded Toro variable speed blower which claims it blows 250mph and 350cfm.

I really like the speed the Toro provides but of course getting tired of unrolling and re-rolling 150ft of extension cord. Opinions?

PS: I've had gas blowers before. Inevitably they'd all become a PITA to start.

 

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I have both and end up using the small blower for cleaning up the workbench and projects. But I primarily use it for blowing the sand and stuff out of my toy hauler when camping.

 

[DFB]

Wow $69 vs $200

Small blower isn't OPE don't delude urself

I have the small blower cleans up my job worksites and my garage just fine.

 

[dnschmidt]

Two completely different tools. I love the small Milwaukee blower but consider the Makita 36V version of the large blower considerably superior to Milwaukee's large blower. Somebody stole it from my garage and I was happy about it, that's how much I disliked the large Milwaukee blower.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Wow $69 vs $200

Small blower isn't OPE don't delude urself

I have the small blower cleans up my job worksites and my garage just fine.

I don't know what "OPE" means. Googled it, nothing that makes sense here comes up.

I guess it will work good for blowing **** out of my garage and to take along on camping trips to clean up - - I guess.

 

[mrvm]

I really like the speed the Toro provides but of course getting tired of unrolling and re-rolling 150ft of extension cord. Opinions?

My Ryobi blower does a decent job clearing the driveway of clippings with 4 ah batteries. Cordless power won't last long so carry spares. Bigger jobs require corded power.

 

[jwelks]

OPE= outdoor power equipment

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

OPE= outdoor power equipment

 

[Aileron]

I have both . I actually purchased the small to blow of the car after hand washing, thought it would be lighter and easier than a large version. Doesn't do as good as job as its just not as strong. If your going to be blowing the sidewalk or drive,stick with the larger model. When aiming the smaller one at the ground and blowing , you have to keep it away from your body if its on your right or it will **** and stick to your clothing.

 

[electroman187]

I have considered going cordless electric for a while. However, this Hitachi blower has been flawless for 8 years with nothing but fuel and I maybe cleaned the air filter once or twice. It's also very powerful for a handheld unit. Hot or cold, it always starts easy. It was just less than $100 - hard to go wrong.

 

[Bacon!]

One thing that helps get my gas blower started is make sure I do at least 4, full primer bulb presses, semi-slowly. Some people say the little 2 cycle engines are easy to flood but I have never found that to be the case beyond what a couple pulls of the cord (with choke off) wouldn't fix and it is very rare that I even need to do that, more often I think it's easier to get more fuel in.

9 times out of 10 when I see hard to start gas blower, they just need a carb cleaning and rebuild kit, though in recent years on Amazon or ebay, you can get an entire bolt on Chinese carb/fuel-lines/gaskets/2X-primer-bulbs/spark-plugs/etc kit for $20 or less delivered, a great value IMO, years ago buying these parts separately would easily cost over twice as much.

One thing though, these generic carbs may have no adjustments made yet, you may need a special double-D or splined stud (or other?) screwdriver to adjust them. I wrote special but it may be (often is) the same screwdriver needed to adjust the factory major brand carb the blower came with, and sometimes the kits with parts listed above, throw in a screwdriver for a couple bucks more.

As far as whether you'll be happy with the 18V 100CFM blower, I wouldn't be. That's very weak for anything more than dry grass or leaves on paved surfaces... but that might be all you need? We can't really make that call for you, up to you to give it a fair test run but I'm inclined to think you too, aren't going to be happy with it or else this topic wouldn't exist.

 

[Den69rs96]

My dad has a Roybi with the low 90mph and 200 cfm. I thought it was pretty weak. I ended up with the dewalt 20v blower with 90mph and 400 cfm. I bought it mainly to take camping to clean our site and the roof of our slide out, however I use it a lot to clean out my garage. The dewalt want touch the power of my Stihl bg55 hand held or husky 570 back pack, but it’s much more convenient to use for small quick jobs.

 

[737mechanic]

I bought an EGO 580CFM 168MPH blower about a week ago and love it. I had an ECHO gas blower and loved it until I got my cordless blower. The EGO is more powerful than my ECHO gas blower and no more mixing gas, pull starting or the noise.

I actually did a quick review of it on youtube.

 

[kctyphoon]

The single biggest under utilized, missed opportunity for a tool in the lineup.

 

[ScottsGT]

I’ve got both as well. Small one is great for the shop, blowing off my car when washing (works great if you have a ceramic coating finish) work bench and believe it or not, getting the fire going in the fire place when it doesn’t want to burn well with unseasoned wood.
I bought the smallest M18 battery to keep it light.
I also use it to chase the cat off the printer in the bedroom! He looks like a cartoon character trying to haul *** from that thing.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Interesting input guys, thanks.

I agree that I don’t think it’s all that valuable for yard work unless; as someone said, it’s dry grass or leaves from pavement which IS mostly what I do. But when you’re doing the yard and run into heavier debris to move it’s frustrating with this blower.

I also agree that the tool seems well suited to blowing off a campsite or the awning over the slide out unit because it’s very small/takes up little space.