*UPDATE!* The below suggestions were correct. Our 1 year old HD12.0 is not pulling from all banks of cells :( The M18 still ranks last here though. We just took apart the battery to confirm. AND just tested the single batt blower with an XC6.0 and it ALSO lasted 9.5mins. I do apologize for the fake news, either way a 1 year old HD12.0 battery used maybe 2 times a month kicking the bucket not reflecting too well on the 'ol red brand. Ranking has been updated for those of you who have it. 19 mins, 38 points, 824 points total. Still last place :P And correction, the new model is a Gen 3, the Gen 1 M18 FUEL looks like a real chonker. Also @ 12:58 my voiceover is correct, it is 1005 total. Runtime should be 32 points total for the dual battery, not 36. It's only our 2nd episode, and it's getting close to that season. We can certainly test more models, we're reading your suggestions!

okay, never in my life did i think i would be watching a test on leaf blowers, but here i am, content and interested lol

'We went back on our word, but in our defense; our word was dumb' -Probably Milwaukee

Recent sub here, and want to say I appreciate the effort you've put in on all the testing methodologies. First came across the channel early in the year when trying to decide on a new platform to replace my 20yr old Makita NiMH stuff. Keep up the great work!

I was looking for a lightweight blower for my deck. kzfaq.infoUgkxgioZQl3J5wPGAeDINzbieKbT5qomSEx3 There are some huge trees around my house and the leaves and pods drop all over my deck. Having to move furniture around to sweep has become too big a chore. This blower was the answer. It is light enough for this 70yr old lady and powerful enough to blow all the tree droppings off my rather large deck. Thank you B&D. Be aware the cord is not included. I use a 3 prong outdoor cord 25' cord for my 12' x 20' deck. The cord retainer works very well, but don't try to pass the plug through it. That is NOT how it works. You just have to loop the cord and it works great. One of my best purchases. Very happy.

I love this channel so much fun! Thanks for the great videos and hard work!!

Being that I have used the m18 (not sure if gen 1 or 2) while working for a lawn care company, I have found them to be completely reliable and absolutely capable for 90% of the work. As for the other 10%, when you need to break out the echo backpack blower, you break out the echo backpack blower. The boss was a Milwaukee fanboy and had the weed eaters also along with just about all the m18 shop tools that they made. Personally, I have Dewalt for the few battery powered tools that I have and for lawn equipment I prefer gas but the Milwaukee stuff is quite good for what it is.

I have the original Milwaukee blower and I'm actually surprised to see it at the end of this list as the thing does everything I ask it to - mostly just a quick dust off of the sidewalks, patio, and I use it to start very high heat campfires! My only comparison is an old black and decker 120v plug in unit though.

Interesting for sure! I'd like to see Makita's older but only 36v blower with two 6ah 1650 cell batteries tested in comparison. Also DeWalt would be great to see in the future. 👍 As always great video and content guys!

Awesome review as always! Love all the detailed info.

Thank you for doing this... keep up on the yard tools!

Good video! Good info. I love my $79 Worx corded 250mph 2spd leaf blower. And it mulches great. The large diameter tube is quieter, and don't clog as easy when mulching. Very strong!

My wife bought an 80V MAX Kolbalt (Model KHB 400B) at Lowe's several years ago. That thing is amazing.

The Ryobi #RY404010 (730cfm/190mph) 40v whisper series blower has been truly amazing for me over the past year. It it nearly as good as moving wet leaves as my Stihl BR600 backpack blower (albeit it doesn't last nearly as long).

Part way in i'm thinking, what if you mix different batteries, and then you guys mix in different batteries!! Love this channel, it can't be beat!

I can use a 12Ah and weedwhack my yard, edge driveway and sidewalks, and have 3 bars left. Throw it on the 18V blower and - moving quickly - I can get most everything blown off. It's amazing how efficient the string trimmer head is vs the blower. Awesome video.

I've got the m18 blower and use it daily at work for blowing out reefer trailers. I've used it about a year and a half now and love it

Don’t see myself upgrading. In FL and for the size I cut and blow which is really just lawn clippings never leaves, I love how it performs .

I've had some great success with my Ryobi 40V Whisper Blower (MODEL: #RY40470) but unsure how it would stack up on this rankings chart. They've apparently released a newer Whisper 40V too, (MODEL: #RY404100) thats supposed to be 730 CFM at 190MPH. Seems impossibly overstated.

Great video!! Hope you test the new Milwaukee back pack blower!!

Would really like to see the Dewalt's put through the same testing...both the 1st and 2nd gen 20v and the 60v.

I've always used Echo gas blowers, so I'd be interested to see how their DPB-2500 battery blower compares.

Recently purchased a DeWalt DCBL772 and it works great for what I need it for. Would love to see it tested here, maybe even up against the 20v DCBL722, I couldn't find a good comparison video between the two. Would love to see if going with the 60v tool was a good use of money!

i appreciate these testing demos and all you do. I use Craftsman for my yard work. Those tools include an electric mower (comes with two 5ah bats and i use for all of these tools), weedwhacker, and of course leaf blower. Would be lying if I said I wasn't interested to see how the cheaper red brand stacks up lol

EGo has far more powerful blowers out than the 530cfm unit. Would like to see the 700+cfm unit tested. Might as well try out a Makita 18x2 and the XGT 40V units too. Toro has a 60V blower that’s pretty decent. You might need to take the channel through an IPO to finance it, but comparisons against the bigger Stihl battery units would be awesome as well.

The new m18 Dual Battery model is working well for me. Much better than the previous model. I use 2 3.0’s to drop the weight or 2 8.0s when I want more runtime. I do wish it had a lower pitch to the motor, more like the Ego, but I like the slide switch, battery level lights and am surprised to find the bottom handle convenient for some angles of use. Might have to take it apart and try to find a sound dampening hack…

I have the original Milwaukee battery blower, I bought it when I got their battery string trimmer and edger system two years ago. For my quarter acre city lot, I use use it after every mow on my walkways and driveway a well as I use it nearly daily in my garage. I couldn't use my Echo backpack blower in the garage as it left way too much fumes. I really don't try to use my MKE blower for trying to clear leaves, it just isn't enough for that task and I wouldn't recommend it for leaf clearing. I still love it as I already had many Milwaukee cordless tools so kept me in the same battery family. The fact that it is instant on and off is awesome as well, with gas powered blowers you just can't go on and off so easily. This video's run time results are accurate!

Nice video . I’ve been impressed with my gen one blower. Needing two batteries sounds like a downside to me

You got to test the 40V Makita (The one with a single battery) I got one of them and feels quite powerful.

I had the old Milwaukee blower and when it went missing I replaced it with a Hart backpack blower.... Huge difference, The backpack blower is amazing...

good test reviews, I looked at these popular platforms last year and tried out a few ,Ryobi, Milwaukee, Dewalt Makita and the Ego ,i found the Ego and Makita to be the best and ended up choosing the Ego blower in the end, best charge time and awesome ergonomics and low noise, it did not bother my hands with vibration either, Having Carpal Tunnel this was important to me and it has worked flawlessly so as has my Ego lawnmower for a number of years already 👍

I would love to see you test and compare the Makita 18x2 36v blower. It's what I've used for years now and it can move gravel

I just bought a 24v kobalt leaf blower it is rated at 120 mph and 500cfm seems impressive to me for the money I'd like to see one of those tested keep up the good work !

So with batteries its $600 minimum. I'll stick with my Echo gas blower that'll likely blow the doors off of this.

I've always been happy with my GW 80V handheld and backpack blowers. The backpack was taking too much room and I wanted to get rid of one battery platform so I tried the M18 single battery and was disappointed. I sold the blower and battery used for less than what I paid new for (thanks to free battery promotions). I replaced with the GW brushless 2x24V (i.e. 48V) blower and am really happy with it, can you test this blower to see how it stacks up? I have a lot of GW 24V tools (homeowner they are definitely not pro grade) so I also switched to the 2x24V mower. I still have Milwaukee M12 platform and Metabo HTP 18/36V platform for the mid-torque to work on the vehicles.

I have the dual battery M18 fuel. Love the power and the sound it makes. Sounds much better than the gas ones.

Surprised the Dewalt blowers aren't in here considering they have couple of 60v versions now.

I know it's not exactly the highest demanded brand, but I'd love to see you compare the 2 Kobalt blowers. They recently came out with a new one and it looks suspiciously similar.

The m18 single battery in your test is actually a gen2 fuel blower.

I'd like to see how the DeWalt 60v stacks up.

I just got the Milwaukee 2724 as a "free tool" for black Friday ... and I was really impressed with it. I have an older corded Toro and an old Craftsman C3 battery blower (yes the battery is good) ... both of them are only used to blow off the porch, the deck or the driveway & really light duty stuff like pollen. I have to use my gas backpack for wet leaves. So I'm impressed that the 2724 can blow wet leaves and is more powerful than the corded Toro ... it can't replace a gas backpack, but its good for what it does. I may actually buy a 2nd one so both kids go clean up and I can sit down. But I would say a blower is more of something you buy for the battery system you've already decided to use. Its great to see a comparison. Thank you.

Would be nice to see some DeWalt models on the list; they have 5 blowers that I can think of through the gen 2 20V and gen 2 60V would seem to be the best to test. They also make a 20v mini blower but it is quite horrible.

Do you have any updates since you did the original video from last year? Curious to hear if there have been any changes. And thanks for the great review. Super helpful.

Just a reminder to see pinned comment, our HD12.0 battery is no longer pulling from all banks of cells RIP

I have a petrol leaf blower for the big and continuous jobs. Also have the Milwaukee 18V blower for use where space is restricted and especially for enclosed spaces where gas exhaust is extremely toxic.They complement each other for different aspects of blowing.

Great review! I got the dual battery Makita one & I beat it to shit. Super reliable even after living in the back of my truck with the elements. I think I dropped it once and it chipped by the battery housing. Always running it with two 5ah and it does well on a medium sized yard without recharghing. Been going on for 4 years now no problems, would love to see your review on it. Thanks for the work! 💪

Is there any significant difference in 18/24/40/80v blowers? Does drastically increasing volts equal more beans or better runtime?

Test the DeWalt Flexvolt leaf blower. Guarantee it blows all of them out of the water. If there’s anything DeWalt can do, they can build outside equipment better than everyone. Ask Project Farm and Workshop Addict

I saw another channel where the guy mounted a leafblower on a homemade foamboard airplane, and it actually flew (after a couple failed attempts and some adjustments). I think he used the Greenworks model, there was a big 80 on the side you could see while he was working on it and flying it. I was hoping the test of this one would prove it was a real badass, so I could go back to that video and leave a comment asking him to try again, but the mph is the same and higher weight.

Got the 1 battery version. It takes care of the driveway, sidewalks, and gutters just fine. No heavy use in lawn at all so does the trick

Great video can you use that blower with just 1 battery if just. Need to blow something small

Very curious to see how the Ego LB765 stacks up. I have a lot of M12 & M18 tools but for OPE went with Ego because they had a broader range of tools available

My Milwaukee blower is phenomenal. Tried a Ryobi battery powered backpack blower for 5 minutes back in 2020 and immediately returned it. The Milwaukee blower the doors off of a backpack blower which I didn't think could be possible.

I have the original M18 compact blower as well as the the newer single battery tested here. The old blower was bought for a specific purpose, blow the slide tops on our 5th wheel and to stoke campfires. It does both great. The newer 18v blower was a freebie included with a chainsaw/12.0 package. It works OK, is good for my wife to handle but it is is ear piercing. Unlike selling off my two gas chainsaws after the first use of the M chainsaw, I'm not selling my Redmax backpack blower anytime soon.

Great testing. Do the new green works 80v brushless. Claiming 730cfm I’m skeptical

I got one of these because I like to keep one charger instead of many. I've got a ton of these batteries and this tool works fine for what I need it to do. I'm not a landscaper so I don't have to constantly run this thing but when I do make dump runs this thing blows all the garbage out of my truck so it works and I already have batteries. Milwaukee as a brand has been impressing me for the last 7 years. I still have the same impact / drill kit I bought in 2015 and I just passed it off to one of my helpers. Is it expensive...... Sure! Will it last.... Most likely. Is it always the best..... No but it works when I need it to even after I beat it up and don't take proper care of it.

curious to see if they make some impact drivers with 2 18V batteries makita does that for their 36V line of tools like chainsaws, rotary hammers and weed whackers, all using the same 18V battery

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the 40V Ryobi brushless blower. I love mine and I'm sure it gets a lot more than 10 minutes of battery life on a 4Ah battery.

I bought the 2824 a couple nights ago and found that at a moderate speed run time is quite long and more then enough to get the job done!

Works fine for a battery powered hand held blower, not sure what more you can expect out of it. I've also got a gas powered Stihl backpack blower for the bigger jobs and they complement each other well.

At full price the Milwaukee blower gen 1 is NFG. I already have the batteries and found one for 179 with free 5amp battery included. Works for my small jobs around my house. This thing definitely eats up batteries quick. Would not recommend to anyone doing serious yard work. Thanks for the content

I would love to see how the Ryobi P21100 stacks up being that it's brushless and has the extra communication contacts.

Would like to see how my DeWalt 60v model stacks up. DCBL772.

I currently have the M18 blower, and while I don't have a 12ah battery yet(I just ordered the M18 16in chainsaw 12aH kit), I do have the 5 that came with it, an 8/6/3 all HO. I can tell you that the 5 and 3HO seem to give me similar performance, especially run time. However, the 8/6 obviously last a lot longer. But I do not lock the trigger the entire time I am using it, and I don't know anyone that does this, even on a gas powered blower, so the performance is where I need it to be. The dual speed or rather full speed and half speed limiter do come in handy, especially around fences and other objects or places where you don't need full blast or don't want the debris to blow back on you. I use it on both yard work as well as work area clean up, and I also use it to blow all of the dust off of my tools at the end of the day, as well as clean out any Packout boxes that may have collected any debris. Oh, and it is also used on low to blow off any debris from me and to cool down sometimes. Since I am already invested in the M18, I may purchase one of the dual battery set ups, or hold out and see if they get more on the pro OPE level and release an MX platform blower and other OPE. One can only hope, right.

How do the 40V and 80V Kobalt's stand up in this category?

I noticed with my blower that the battery is not dying, but overheating. After letting the battery cool for a few min, the indicator showed the charge at half. Also during the holidays you can get the blower for free with many kits.

My m18 blower rocks. Not sure where the complaints are coming from but it does everything I need it to with ease. Grass, leaves, dirt, small gravel

Ive got the m18 fuel 2728-20 blower which was built before both of these and is brushless aswell

We use these tools on aircraft’s. You are doing some crazy testing brother!

I’m happy with my Milwaukee blower. It’s for Little jobs not ridding the yard of leaves. I’m a contractor and it works awesome for end of the day clean up, blowing grass off the sidewalks after doing the lawn. Reasonable expectations are where this all lands.

It would be interesting to see how many cfm you can get by running the compressors in series feading each other

Looking forward to adding the 24v, 40v, and 80v Kobalt blowers.

I’m curious on how the dewalt flexvolt axial blower would stack up against the 36v Milwaukee.

Are the tubes of the single-battery 2724 and dual-battery 2824 the same diameter and shape at the stem where they latch to the main body? In other words, are the 2724 and 2824 tubes interchangeable?

Used a few brands over the past year and one of the best I found was a cheaper brands blower. Not sure if you can get Einhell tools (Sold as Ozito in australia) easy there but there 36 volt blower (GP-LB 36/210 Li E-Solo) really is great value to performance rating. Would be interesting to see how it stacks up in your tests. I was looking at the new milwaukee the other day and just wondering at 4 times the cost over my Einhell is it going to give me any real advantage.

I'd check out the DeWalt DCBL772X1. $299 with a battery and seems to do a really good job

Have you ever tested ratchet wrenches? How much force before they strip the bolt or the ratchet fails? Debating on buying a full set.

I run a Milwaukee blower for cleaning trailers and have found the battery life to be great, 2-4 trailers on a 6ah high output dependent on what the mess is of course.

Been deciding between MKE and Ego for my yard tools, leaf blower is a big one and based on a lot of videos I’m leaning Ego. The pressure washer looks cool, too.

At a certain point it really is all about the voltage … which is why I have a 56 volt blower … plus it was on sale

I have the m18 and for my use (blowing out a 53 foot truck trailer) it's more than enough for my purposes. But yes is sucks the battery quick. Using the 5 amp battery I can only do the trailer 2-3 times before I have to recharge.

Im satisfied with my gen1 brushless Ryobi 40v RY40402A. Super low cost to start with anf additional batteries low cost. Also means I don't kill my milwaukee work tool batteries. Wonder how the new Ryobi 40v and Harbor freight Atlas holds up.

Great video. Answered all the questions I had rolling around in my head about this new blower. 70+ a/hr draw on the m18 is crazy. I’m surprised the 14ga wire can keep up.

I'd love to see the dewalt blowers tested, the 20v DCBL722B, flexvolt DCBL770B, flexvolt axial DCBL772B (which other reviewers seem to like, it should be toe-to-toe with the m36), and even the powerhead attachment blower DWOAS7BL.

It is worth mentioning that Makita also has 2x18 and a 40v blowers which are much better than the single 18v that was tested. Even F1 teams use that 2x18 model :)

Would love to see you test the dewalts. Great videos keep up the great work!

The Milwaukee is not the most powerful we all know that but it is very nice to have for small jobs. For big jobs I break out the gas backpack blower. You however gave the Milwaukee blowers a very fair assessment. Really like your channel.

Did you happen to run the dual battery milwaukee blower with a pair of 12.0 batteries? I also have a lightly used (maybe discharged 30 times in a year or two) 12.0 battery that drains much faster than my other 12.0's, I'm curious to see how or if milwaukee will warranty it.

You guys probably need to check out EGO again. I went to Lowes and saw a 725 CFM version on the shelf(went in for the lawn edger). Something to think about.

Please test the 2x18v by Makita too.. I love mine, and Mercedes use them in the pits in formula 1 too, to cool the breaks. (just painted them silver)

Could you test the Kobalt Lowes brand of blowers? I find them to work quite well.

Project farm did a leaf blower test. The M 18 was in the top 2 rating. I have one, it’s awesome

I used to be a tti rep in Texas and along the years during training they said advertising 20V was misleading but later they released Hart 20v power tools, they said Ego placing the motor on the 56V trimmer bump head was dumb, then they did that that on the Gen 2 58V Echo trimmer, they said Makita requiring two 18v batteries was bad for the consumer and M18 Fuel did not need to do that to produce the power the consumers wanted, then this happened. They said Ego releasing carbon fiber shafts on their trimmers was a gimmick, how Ryobi makes 40V carbon fiber shaft trimmers, they said DeWalt measuring how many watt hours produced was dumb and did not translate to power and now they know it’s very important for some if not many. I definitely drank the TTi marketing koolaid at first but then I realized some companies do it better so why not adopt that ?!

I got the 1st gen milwaukee leaf blower free with some other tool I bought and I love using it. I use it to blow grass off the driveway and blow dirt and dust out of the shop. I wouldn't know what a commercial leaf blower should do though.

You should test the kobalt 40v blower. It is an excellent blower. Been using it doing tree service for 2 years with no issues

Hi TTC! Love the videos. I am currently building an m12 battery with Samsung 4000mah 21700 cells and was wondering if you all would have any interest in testing it on the dyno?

Im curious how the Black and Decker one stacks up to all these. B&D are like, the low/cheap end of tools that i feel most people have. My mom got a B&D leafblower and it seems to do the job ok, but ive not compared it to other brands like this. She also got a B&D weedwacker because it uses the same batteries.

Voltage and amperage are connected. The way you get amps is by dividing the voltage by the resistance.

Man I LOVE my Milwaukee single batt leaf blower

Can you guys test the Makita dual battery m18 blower? Should be a good test. I own one along with the single battery makita and they seem pretty close in power to me.