Its not so much the weight but the cost of buying 8kg of lithium cells. For Kress, each of those battery packs is $1500 and they offer a charger for $15k. Now imagine you need to buy 2, 3, or 4 of these and regularly replace the packs as they go bad.
Those might be too weak to effectively do their job. The Kress ones are 1500m³/h vs 900m³/h flow and 190MPH vs 130MPH wind speed. Plus those come with a 5AH battery which is only enough capacity to run my cordless grinder for about 20 minutes for example.
TIL that in the USA they have backpack blowers. I stand contracted. Still only 8kg.
The ones I see in Germany are without the backpack.
Its not so much the weight but the cost of buying 8kg of lithium cells. For Kress, each of those battery packs is $1500 and they offer a charger for $15k. Now imagine you need to buy 2, 3, or 4 of these and regularly replace the packs as they go bad.
That’s crazy expensive. Just do what German landscape companies do and buy reasonable equipment.
Like this:
https://www.bosch-professional.com/de/de/products/gbl-18v-750-06008D2000
200€, lighter and sane prices. No one needs to buy golden 24k rakes to move leaves. Just buy professional grade sanely priced tools.
Bosch Professional is the standard for German contractors.
The workers benefit, and the community benefits.
Those might be too weak to effectively do their job. The Kress ones are 1500m³/h vs 900m³/h flow and 190MPH vs 130MPH wind speed. Plus those come with a 5AH battery which is only enough capacity to run my cordless grinder for about 20 minutes for example.