I live in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I like to work in the yard. Sunday is the day I reserve for messing around in the yard. I am an old pro at leaf blower service, and I often use a pressure washer to get stains off the concrete.
But something fun happened today.
I was washing some stains off the driveway and ... well I noticed how well the pressure washer could blow leaves around. I mean it is like 1000 times better than any leaf blower I ever saw!
So as I went nuts blowing off the front and back yards with the pressure washer (mid you this is a 3500 PSI 10 horse gas driven noisy obnoxious machine) I got to wondering why it worked so much better than the leaf blowers I use. It isn't that it moves air, although it does as an after effect, mostly it moves water, in a fine spray.
It seems to me that the effectiveness of a leaf blower is related to the amount of energy you can get to the leaf to get it to move. And indeed, the pressure washer wins hands down, because it is moving a heavy water particle rather than an air molecule.
Of course, if you stay in one place too long it makes the ground wet, and then nothing will move. And a side effect of de-leafing your lawn with a pressure washer is that it cleans the lawn! My grass never looked so nice, bright and shiny. Sweet!
So next time you get tired of the leaf blower, break out the pressure washer! Woohoo!
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