Leaf Blowers!

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Brooms are BS. I only have two in, and apart from ensuring you're not on boost and pointed in the right direction, a battery powered blower is a bloody game-changer for drying out the floor, moving water, cleaning shoots, hay, everything when horses out. Mask up around the chips obviously. I do the walls and any edges last to ensure its all on the floor too. I just did some rug drying on full power this afternoon. Who knew! Am I the last? I use an Ego, battery model wtih a 40W battery attached.
 
That’s a great idea to dry rugs with a leaf blower!
I have a backpack one and a handheld one. The backpack one is super strong and will even blow surface mud off the yard.
 
PurBee said:
That’s a great idea to dry rugs with a leaf blower!
I have a backpack one and a handheld one. The backpack one is super strong and will even blow surface mud off the yard.
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A revealation! Yours sounds amazing. I just use the electric one... it's powerful with interchangable batteries that fit in the mower too. Great stuff. :)
 
i got one for christmas, best present EVER!! our stable block is cobbled, and particularly outside divas stable the grooves are quite deep and the broom just doesn’t cut it - this is so much easier!

must remember to put the plastic lids on their water buckets before i get carried away though🙈🤣
 
Always thought how amazing the horses were at my friends old yard where they used leaf blowers all the time for ‘sweeping’. They are amazing animals that can tolerate so much and then there’s a crisp packet 😆
 
This made me laugh! I have a Milwaukee battery blower and although I'm not as obsessed as i was at first It's one of my favourite things. Its very addictive! Mine would be in daily use but mo partner and the farm run everything Milwaukee so my battery is often missing or flat...
 
Leaf blowers are game changers if you get back pain on sweeping, it has literally changed my life!
If you can get your horse used to it they are good for drying wet legs too, my little mare lets me use it to dry her legs off.
 
Oh I hate them.
If not used properly you simply blow all the dust & dirt out of sight for someone else to sweep up later. Nevermind all the dust they lift and blow around simply to end up in feeds and water buckets.

I'm happy with my broom but I may experiment using a leaf blower for rug drying.
 
I train for agility at a big yard, the indoor arena is in the same building as an american barn with maybe 15 stables. In the evening when all the horses are in, someone goes through the stable corridor with a leaf blower, you can see the dust rising in the air and settling on hay racks etc. Surely that isn't good for the horses, certainly I wouldn't have liked mine to be in that situatio.
 
I thought that the use of leaf blowers in the stables of racehorse training yards had been found to be linked to unexplained loss of form of the horses? The loss of form was later linked to respiratory issues due to all the dust, fungal spores etc that were disturbed and blown around to be then inhaled by the horses?

All that dust ends up somewhere 😳.
 
OrangeAndLemon said:
If not used properly you simply blow all the dust & dirt out of sight for someone else to sweep up later.
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Our tiny front garden is under a council tree in the street. The blower blows all the leaves off the soft flower bed and crazy paving into a neat heap by the dustbuns. You can set the blower either to blow or to suck. So it will act like a hoover and suck all the leaves into a net but one can wear masks. Ours is a Flymo, old and unwieldy but still worth it for twice a year.
 
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