Black and Decker 40V leaf blower review - Is it worth the money?

[@ww7116]

It works good for vacuuming up pine needles and dry leaves on rock garden. I'm going to flatten the end of the vacuum tube so that it will fit inside roof gutters to suck up all the pine needles. Full charge lasts about 30 minutes at full speed.

[@thomasfirby7134]

I'm SMH about your biggest complaint. I have owned this exact model sweeper/vac since 2013 and it still works great. I will acknowledge that it is not the most powerful unit out there, I have an EGO blower for the big jobs. There's a reason B & D calls this a sweeper instead of a blower. The sweeper is great because it is so much lighter and quieter than my EGO. Now, getting to your biggest complaint. The black piece that holds the blow tube on is not meant to be pulled on. You are supposed to push on the area with the horizontal ridges (that's why there is a spring underneath it) and that will allow you to remove the tube so you can convert the sweeper to vacuum mode. In the 11 years that I have owned this, that piece has never come off of mine. Also, I bet the reason that your vacuum mode is not working is there is probably some debris stuck in the impeller or tube. I've had to remove debris from my impeller and tube and it fixed the problem. On a positive note, I must say that you have a soothing broedcaster voice.

[@noahwaikiki]

I noticed the 20 v specs say it goes 130 mph and the 40 v says 125 mph there seems to be 2 different 20 v one with super boost one without. I guess this only features variable speeds and a vacuum. I would throw a hose clamp on or something but my luck the whole nozzle would break off one day. I’m guessing the 40 v can’t take 20 v batteries? Thanks for the video!

[@oathelhill5649]

Thanks! Saved me from upgrading

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

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[@mackwebster7704]

"Promo sm" 😆