Visited my local store and was advised by the local staff a 2015 model EGO 56v leaf blower is going on sale for the upcoming father's day. Am shown by a staff of the upcoming catalogue unfortunately I did note take not of the sale period. The store I went to was at is 21 Park Road, Cheltenham in Victoria.
Would appreciate your thoughts if the Ryobi 36v leaf blower or this is a better product?
I own a ryobi 36v 5ah battery (bought from gumtree recently). Need to source for a charger,but it will depend if I want to invest in ryobi 36v system…
EGO vs Ryobi blowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkcMYcLF4w
I have both EGO and Ryobi products, for power hungry applications (chainsaw etc) I wouldn't go lower than 56V and EGO does those very well. Great warranty is a plus.
Owned the blower for a while, plenty powerful enough, batteries seem to last well. Picked up the chainsaw and whipper snipper during the Masters close down,all the products have been great.
It's the old model, but still a good price
Does it have the EGO line trimmer on sale as well?
Not that I can see on the broucher. The only ego product is the ego blower.
Make sure you get the larger line trimmer. The small one is useless… Bigger one is decent.
Leaf blower is a beast…
Lawn mower is nice.
It's a great product. I am using the mower and the trimmer as well. All the first gen products but it does a great job. No messy fuel spillage or fumes ever again.
FYI I've got one of the blowers and had to already send the battery for warranty replacement. These are powerful but also pretty heavy. Unless you are blowing twigs, I would've gone for the smaller compact Ryobi ones.
What wrong with your battery?
The 2016 530cfm model is pretty heavy (approx 3kg+). Intend to get a blower to blow twigs. My neighbour gumtree drop lots of crap on my side given the strong winds we have in Melbourne recently.
The EGO is more powerful, better quality and a better design but it depends like do you have a Ryobi 36V investment already?
The current model is $379 in kit form with a 2.5Ah battery TradeTools
The 2.0Ah battery by itself is $149, the charger $109 and the blower $219.