Thank You Seattle Parks Dept!
Today I saw a parks employee using a Toro backpack electric leaf blower, and not only was I able to easily get his attention, we then had a great chat about the benefits of it. He loves not having to fuel it with gas and oil and the hassle! Said it was still plenty powerful to do whatever he needs to blow for 4 hours or so.
Right now just comparing thw operating costs of a gas blower and gas prices in Seattle, a new $1500 battery blower will pay back in 4 months like a commercial operator such as Seattle Parks Dept.
Bring on the battery blowers everywhere, and get these community and people destroying gasoline hell machines out of our neighborhoods!