These are the best cordless leaf blowers from Consumer Reports' tests, including top handheld and backpack electric blowers.

Leaf blowers are noisy machines and backpack leaf blowers, with their powerful engines or motors, are the noisiest of them all. Most manufacturers measure and share decibel ratings for their backpack ...

Raking may feel nostalgic, but it’s a serious workout — and there’s a faster way to clean up your lawn: a leaf blower.Like ...

Backpack leaf blowers generally operate around 600- to 1,000 cfm at speeds of 150- to 230 mph. In both cases, higher numbers are generally better, but you need to keep in mind that as air speed and ...

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If you're in the market for a leaf blower, Amazon's bestseller is affordable, but its battery life is woefully short. These ...

Despite its name, it’s a given that leaf blowers can be used beyond clearing leaves in the fall. And since you might be regularly mowing your lawn at this point in the year, a leaf blower is ...

Backpack blowers are a quick and easy way to remove dead leaves and grass clippings from your lawn. You can blow debris away instead of having to rake it up manually. All backpack blowers are powered ...

We tested more than 60 models on over a thousand pounds of leaves to find the top performers for any yard of any size CR test engineer Thomas Johnson assesses how well a leaf blower loosens embedded ...

CNET's experts put the best leaf blowers to the test so you can find the right one, whether you prefer battery-powered, cordless or gas models.

With more and more communities banning gas blowers over the noise (among other things), these small steps will keep you (and ...

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