Which blower to buy?

[Rokon]

I have the Stihl BG56. Bought it new and plan to keep it. Requires minimal maintenance and always fires.

IMO the Echo's need a 5 year warranty. I see a lot of one year old Echo stuff with carb problems. Stay away from the Poulan mentioned above. I've seen those inexplicably loose compression way too consistently.

 

[jekjr]

I've bought this thing last year: <img src="http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/attachments/mower-equipment-operation/24860-blower-buy-poulan-blower-jpeg"/> Works really nice, starts super easy, not too heavy...like it a lot! It's a Poulan Pro BVM200FE 25cc 2 Cycle Gas Leaf Blower

I ran one of those that looked just like that one for two years. Paid $89 for it at Tractor Supply on sale. Had NO problems with it. Ran it daily in grass season. It uses 40:1 Mix and we run 50:1 mix in everything we are running now so instead of risking burning it up or having to keep separate gas I gave it to my son who uses it at his house and he loves it. It is a great buy.

 

[jekjr]

We are running a Stihl hand held that we bought in 2012 off of Facebook for $35. It runs daily as our go to blower for quick clean up. Have only replaced the crank rope and the pulley that the rope winds on and air filter. I have not even replaced the spark plug on it.

We also have a Shindiawa 804 Back pack and an Echo 500 Back pack blowers also that we run a lot.

We have had very little problems with the Shindiawa. The Echo had some carb problems with only a few tanks of gas through it. We have used it since then though with No problems. Starts great, runs great.

Personally I think that the dealer you are dealing with is as important as the brand when it comes to Stihl, Echo. and Shindiawa.