Welcome to Strider Tree Gear today, I am talking about
one of my favorite new pieces of equipment that I purchased.
this PB 9010T Echo leaf blower.
This is the top of the line echo leaf blower.
It's bigger by displacement than anything
that was currently available from Stihl or Husqvarna anybody,
and it has been a purchase I've delayed for a long time.
I've had some blowers, some smaller ones and we've been using a lot of rakes.
But the groundies talked me into buying it and boy, was it a good decision.
So let me tell you about that.
So this blower was a purchase that my groundies kind of pushed me into,
and I wasn't so sure about it,
but I decided if I was going to get it, I'll get the biggest one I can find.
And this was it.
Now what I've come to realize after the fact is that
the time savings alone paid for this thing,
probably in the first week because it is about 500 bucks,
which is a little pricey, but my crew cost about $500 an hour to run.
And this we've almost completely eliminated raking with this,
and it saves us at least 20 minutes, half an hour of cleanup
and almost every job that we do because it's got just so much power.
I haven't had any issues with it.
I haven't been running it a whole lot of hours.
we probably put 20 tanks or so through it so far and haven't had any issues.
And so I couldn't.
I couldn't speak to that.
But for me, it's been dead-solid, reliable.
It saves us a ton of time and the amount
of the capability of this machine is incredible.
So now, instead of spreading chip piles with a rake
usually will push big piles with the machine and then just use the
blower over the top of it and it blows it all nice and even and blast it out.
We can do.
We can clean grass from that's all embedded with pine needles,
and it'll blow the pine needles right out of the grass.
It'll blow leaves just like you saw right out of right out of grass and weeds.
It'll even push sticks around. Most of the time.
I got to be a little bit
careful on gravel driveways because it'll blow the rocks clean out.
But the beauty of it
is that it'll blow chip dust and chip fragments right out of it.
And if you go really lightly and really quickly,
it tends to blow out the light stuff, but leave most of the rocks intact.
So I cannot speak highly enough of the value of having a big blower.
And as far as big blowers go, this is the biggest one, and I approve,
very much like it would totally recommend would buy again.
So hopefully you find that helpful.
Sorry to interrupt, but if you enjoy my content in this channel
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I've got a course for the beginner who's just looking at getting into
the trees for the first time.
And I've also got a series that's more tilted towards folks
who are already doing residential tree work.
It's going to have the safety trainings and the skill trainings
starting at new hire to take someone right off the street,
make them an apprentice,
teach them the more advanced skills all the way to a foreman.
And if that's something you'd be interested in, you can leave your
email address there on the website and I'll let you guys know first thing
when that's available.
Also, you can schedule to have me come out to your job site
and be a contract climber and an instructor.
And combine that time to offer you the best value
to upgrade your skills with your crew on your job.
So you can do that.
You can schedule that on my website as well. Stridertrees.com
Now back to the goods.