{"id":27620,"date":"2013-10-28T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=27620"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T20:16:49","slug":"toro-ultra-blower-vac-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/toro-ultra-blower-vac-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner Tool Review: Toro Ultra Blower Vac Leaf Blower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many &#8220;joys&#8221; of home ownership is the never-ending cycle of home maintenance.  Since fall is the time when many homeowners find their lawns and driveways buried under a thick layer of brown, red, and gold, I thought it would be worthwhile to post a brief review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B007POATV4\/?tag=prioutfor-20\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\">Toro Ultra Blower Vac<\/a> that I use to manage leaves at my home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B007POATV4\/?tag=prioutfor-20\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Toro-Ultra-Blower-Vac.jpg\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 0 0; border:0;\" alt=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My main leaf battle takes place next to my driveway.  A large tree on the corner of my lot drops probably hundreds of thousands of leaves at this time of year, spread out over at least a month.  For the first year after buying our home I did my best to manage the leaves with brooms and rakes, but after two seasons of that I was ready for&#8230; <strong>more power<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After doing some research I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B007POATV4\/?tag=prioutfor-20\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\">Toro Ultra Blower Vac<\/a>, which I paid $75 for on Amazon (it&#8217;s currently $70 at the time of writing).  The <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B007POATV4\/?tag=prioutfor-20\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\">Toro Ultra Blower Vac<\/a> fit all my criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s electric, so no nasty fumes or gasoline to deal with, relatively less noisy, and fewer parts to break.<\/li>\n<li>It is powerful enough to take care of all my leaf and fir needle-clearing needs.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s lightweight and relatively compact&mdash;easy to store in my garage.<\/li>\n<li>It cost less than $100.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video I made this weekend, cleaning up the season&#8217;s first leaf dump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8yN140yHSkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this video I&#8217;ve compressed about forty-five minutes of leaf blowing and vacuuming into roughly three minutes.  With rakes and brooms this job probably would have taken me two hours.  I&#8217;ll need to do this almost weekly for the next couple of months to keep up with all the leaves this tree drops.  I definitely consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B007POATV4\/?tag=prioutfor-20\" title=\"Toro Ultra Blower Vac - 51609 12 amp\">Toro Ultra Blower Vac<\/a> to be $75 well-spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many &#8220;joys&#8221; of home ownership is the never-ending cycle of home maintenance. Since fall is the time when many homeowners find their lawns and driveways buried under a thick layer of brown, red, and gold, I thought it would be worthwhile to post a brief review of the Toro Ultra Blower Vac that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On the blog: Homeowner Tool Review: Toro Ultra Blower Vac Leaf Blower http:\/\/wp.me\/pe2Bv-7bu","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[208,680,379,997,939,996],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-home-improvement","tag-home-ownership","tag-homeowners","tag-lawn-care","tag-pro-tip","tag-review"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Homeowner Tool Review: Toro Ultra Blower Vac Leaf Blower \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/toro-ultra-blower-vac-review\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Homeowner Tool Review: Toro Ultra Blower Vac Leaf Blower \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Among the many &#8220;joys&#8221; of home ownership is the never-ending cycle of home maintenance. 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