Cordless Leaf Blower for Makita 18V Battery,Electric Jobsite Air Blower with Brushless Motor,6 Variable Speed Up to 180MPH,2-in-1 Handle Electric Blower and Vacuum Cleaner(Battery Not Included)

This tool really moves some air but it also has a dial to control the speed. I've been using it for dusting off projects before painting, tool cleanup, garage cleanup, worksite cleanup, vehicle cleanup. Love the compact size. Good run time too with an appropriate battery. I'm looking forward to seeing more after market products like this that work with the Milwaukee system.

It's not good for cleaning driveways

Ma cour

I work construction. Certain aspects of my job are rough on tools. I understand full well the limitations of and price point vs quality.So heres my opinion.For certain uses It was phenomenal. Blower function has worked incredibly. We use it often to blow out dirt, shavings, trash etc at rough in stages of construction sites we work on. The extension nozzles are a bit tight fitting and cheap, but functional and work.The vacuum function of the product sucks. No pun intended. On the side of the tool where your hose attaches, there is essentially a grill guard for lack of better terms. This creates problems. Debris will clog this opening VERY quickly. Resulting in your tool to shut off. They have an internal fault protection which is handy to help reduce ruining your tool. However, ill get to that in a minute. The power of the vacuum itself is amazing. We use it often to assist in sucking string through hundreds of feet of pvc pipe to help with pulling in electrical undergrounds. Suffice to say. It sucks good on that.The problem with the internal vacuum and how its operates is its essentially using a fan to utilize the blower function. And by reversing the tool hose/ blower tube utilizing the vacuum. You might think thats genius. But its not. Have you ever seen the silly pictures of kids getting their hair stuck in fans and having to cut it out? Well this is a giant problem. Anything you vacuum that could potentially clog that fan/wrap around the blade will cause your tool to be inoperable.Now. In reference to the fan blade grill cover, i modified the grill to reduce the amount of Debris that would have the potential to get stuck and clog the fan, so i understand returning this product is not an option. I knew that full well when i modified the tool. However my modification was merely cutting the grill protective cover off, to stop things like leaves, larger pieces of insulation etc from clogging.Internally there is a fault/ surge protector. It is reset by the variable speed on the side. Moving the slide to the high speed 6 position and back down youll hear an internal click. Just like your kitchen/ bathroom gfci receptacles, it resets and back functional.The battery usage is absolutely terrible. I rotate through on average 5-8 6.0 amp hour milwaukee batteries in a day for my job between myself and coworkers. Using the blower and vacuum will burn up all of them in a matter of 30 minutes of usage. Depending on speed setting as well. I use higher torque spec tools with my batteries and they will last a lot longer on my normal milwaukee tools than this. Word of caution it will drain your battery EXTREMELY quickly.Well long story short. After purchasing this in January it finally gave up the ghost. And even though it was over Easter. I couldn't resurrect it. The internet fault/ surge reset function will not turn it back on. It merely clicks as if the motor has seized or the electrical components inside have fried. Either way. Its inoperable and trash now.Again i fully understand that my usage of this tool is probably more than what many of you will use it for. I used it almost daily. On a construction site with lots of dust, dirt, drywall etc. I get it. Its hard on tools. But its good to see the limits of tools before you purchase them. Sadly and fortunately I really liked this tool. It made certain aspects of my job 100x easier and more efficient. So understand when I say this, sadly I dont want to buy another. Because i know how cheap this thing is and will probably break again in 3 months. And it has been incredibly helpful on my jobsite. Fortunately its cheap-ish. But not cheap enough to buy 4 every year to keep replacing on this timeline. I could justify paying this price every year to replace it if it was pushing to the limits of the tool and it worked ALL year.. but to last 3 months. Not a fan.All that being said. Im dumb and need it for my jobsite. So im re ordering another one to make my life easier and faster for myself and coworkers.Hopefully they can do an update and modify the product and the blower/ vacuum fan location to be slightly out of the direct path of where debris would be passing through while vacuuming. That would most likely extend the life of this tool by 100x.

This blower was much small than I expected, it showed up in a box approx 18x10", it does blow pretty strong and think it will do what i need which is to blow off my mat I keep under my camper awning. I'll update if needed based on how it works on the maiden voyage this weekend.