Husqvarna 150bt

[Carscw]

My thing with buying at pawn shops is it sits in the back from 30 to 90 days with gas in it. Most times it needs a carb cleaning. I know most pawn shops offer a 30 day warranty.

 

[exotion]

The pawn shop up the road has hired me quite a bit because I only charge 20$ plus parts for tune up including carb cleaning spark plug valve adjustment air filter sharpen or replace blade cleaning and other repairs on top of that are usually extra and 50 an hr plus parts

 

[Mike88se]

You said earlier you thought the BT150 was something like 500cfm at the nozzle. I did a little looking and it is comparable to the Stihl BR 430. The BT 150 spec's call for 710 cfm and 251mph at the housing. The Stihl 430 spec's are 765 cfm at the housing and 500 cfm at the tube with 183 mph at the tube, the big difference is the size of the engines the BT 150 has a 50.2 cc and the Stihl BR 430 is running a 63.3 cc. As far as price the MSRP on the 430 is 409.95 but you can get it for less at most of the dealers.

Good info and my take is that Husq has a better engine design if it isnt working itself so hard that it wears out sooner. That might not be much of a factor tho even if its true. I'm a one man operation doing a very limited amount of lawns and have no plans to change that.
What I'd like to do is try a BT150 out and see how much better it is than the little Hitachi handheld. The stated CFM on that is pretty close to the Husq and the Stihl but I can't find any info on whether that CFM clain is overstated or where its measured. I know it blows harder than the old Shindaiwa hand held I used to have. It doesn't blow as hard as the eb45 I have but the eb45 only blows when it wants to

My thing with buying at pawn shops is it sits in the back from 30 to 90 days with gas in it. Most times it needs a carb cleaning. I know most pawn shops offer a 30 day warranty.

Good point. My thing with pawn shops is I just don't like them The shop selling the one I mentioned claims its new in the box and never had gas run through it. $225 for a new blower compared to $200 for a refurb sounds like the new one is a better deal but it's not going to have any warranty/return policy at all.

 

[Mike88se]

Got it today. Found a better discount code and got it for 188 shipped. Looks brand new. Havent had a chance to fire it up yet.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

Got it today. Found a better discount code and got it for 188 shipped. Looks brand new. Havent had a chance to fire it up yet.

Cool! :thumbsup::thumbsup: