I have only used it once so far as a blower. I liked the idea of the metal impeller as apposed to a plastic one. I am replacing one of another brand, and liked the feathers & price on this unit. I was looking at cordless, but for this price I can run out a cord the few times I need it,
I have used several, different blowers over the years and I find that this one is the best. It's very powerful and it is able to easily lift and remove even wet leaves from the ground. It's not too heavy, the handles are well-positioned, and the vibrations are not fatiguing.
I purchased one of these and the adapter kit to convert it to a blower to clean gutters. I used it today. The vac/blower & adapter to blow out gutters was hard for me to assemble because my hands are small (5’3” woman). I got it assembled & blew leaves out of my gutters. It worked good but was really heavy and awkward. It blew with such force that I had to keep turning it off to move it down the stretch if gutters as it would blow its tubes right out of the gutters. I the converted it to a vac after attaching the leaf collection bag. The bag was so long ( the shortest the shoulder strap would allow) that the bag was a couple inches off the ground. The extension tube attached to suck up leaves was so long that it was very very awkward. The whole thing was heavy. BUT THE WORST part was that it started to smell of plastic when it was running, in a few minutes it started to spark at the plugin ( a nice exterior extension cord was used), THEN it started to smoke at the plugin of the VAC!
The machine works very well. The suction attachment was partially compressed out of round shape when received but still able to assemble it onto the motor housing. Great performance. Only concern is that longer term the collection bag will not hold up. Poor stitching, especially around the in-feed attachment.