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Six battery leaf blowers tested: Can electric match petrol on-farm?

Originally only a two-stroke powered leaf blower could create enough puff to blow down combines, balers and grain stores, but as battery technology and manufacturer ambition has increased, several suppliers of battery-only leaf blowers are making an impact

Toby Whatley
Head of Machinery and 51AV视频Technology
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Six battery leaf blowers tested: Can electric match petrol on-farm?

Petrol leaf blowers have found an agricultural home away from their original landscaping market as effective tools for cleaning harvest machinery to reduce weed-seed transfer between fields, rapidly decreasing...

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