Gas leaf blowers. Are they really that noisy?

My old leaf blower is pretty noisy

There was a pretty nasty storm last night and my lawn looked like a mess it passed. That’s why this morning i decided I’d take out my leaf blower from the garage and give it a spin , making the back yard look a little more decent. Weird enough, this kind of annoyed one of my neighbors because i was doing too much noise with my tool.

Well, i must say i have a pretty old gas powered leaf blower and it’s not that silent. But heck, i didn’t even notice the sound, i use a pair of protecting ear muffs and my friends tell me I’m a little bit deaf anyway )

Still, after a short argue with my neighbor i continued my work promising I’ll try to get a new device till fall. Because i don’t want him to call the police for disturbing neighborhood’s silence or something.

So, i went online to look for such devices and i couldn’t find that many. There were some on eBay but the sellers were not trust worthy enough and i also found a site with best leaf blowers reviews. They claim they surf the web and gather the best choices they will find online in one place and then i could buy these products from Shops like Amazon, Buy.com etc via their site. They don’t have too many offers though but i reckon they’ll add more in the near future.

Anyway, i found something interesting enough, it’s a gas leaf blower called Troy Bilt with more features than i would need. It almost fits my budget of 100 bucks (it costs 105 with a big discount) and i can get it from Amazon, and i allready have an account on that site. Still, I’m not sure if this device will be any less noisy than my old one.

So, I’m asking you guys for advice. What should i do? Should i buy this product? I kind of like it and consider it a good choice. But how about the noise… Or, perhaps i should just ignore my neighbor and still use my old tool? Hmm, tough decision, what do you think?

Tags: house tools