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Ahhh yes, but I noticed you had to get that blower right down near the surface for it to work effectively. My back would be crippled by the time I did my 1/2 acre property with that! Do you feel it works sufficiently without crouching?
Thumbs up on yer video wildman, but pass on that insipid looking blower. WTF was the engineer at DeWalt smokin’? 😯 I could give a rat’s, about some stupid digital display, it aint no car! Wow, ridiculous, so to sum up my takes on it, it blows. 😂
Doesn't matter our 9 amp basically three amp is making everything mileaukee can put out on there m18 fuel line with a 12 amp high output. Look at the circular saws. Straight trashing milwaukee 7 1/4 circular saw on a 12 amp hour high output vs out 60v 3 amp hour lol. If milwaukees new forges come out and can't keep up milwaukee is in deep trouble. Especially when dewalt pushes there flexvolts powerstacked. It's game over for milwaukee.
And it's quite sad milwaukee can't get us off this over a decade ass plateform. Then when they do come out with a bigger line they gonna be so far behind and it's gonna make there 12 volt and 18v systems obsolete. They gonna be stuck revamping a whole line all over agian. Quite sad honestly. There tools are constantly being broke down before 5 years etc.
Everybody's copying the Viking arm now. Looks like the Stanley & Irwin are not set up for any future height extension accessories. VA calls them the Cabinet Installation Kit. I've had 2 of the VAs for a few years now and been happy with them.
New Channel? Got these they are great, already used them on the jobsite, to lift heavy door off the hinges. That DeWalt one that you can use your foot would be really nice actually.
I looked at both and already have a Viking arm . Two things sold the Dewalt version . 1. The ability to use your foot to jack , 2. The separate rapid lower button as I have a number of times pressed the wrong one on the Viking arm leading to a dangerous fall. Since getting them the Viking arm has not come out which is a shame as it is a third more expensive in the UK
@@kevindesilva4588 the rapid lowering and precise lowering is available on the Irwin but the foot thing I was like that would have been nice but it's yellow
I think i like the old one better. New one has more power and quieter. Old one has better balance as you want it to point down. Old one has infinite speed adjustment, new one has like 3 or 4 speeds
I’d agree on the balance, angle of use. I use a Stihl battery blower & often get “suck” on clothing at the air intake. That’s also mitigated against on the older version!
I love the variable speed on the older one. Can't count how many times my shirt/pants were blocked from aspiration by the design. I can totally see the open concept be an annoyance on the new model. More CFM is the only interesting part IMO.. probably not enough to switch
Guessing that the Irwin and Dewalt will share most of the same design? 10lb rating difference and release mechanism locations are the only difference I can see
Where on Travis’ page did you see the Dewalt preview? I just scrolled thru the last three years of posts and didn’t find it. Is it buried in with another product? I’d really like to see what this foot operation is that has been mentioned.
