So I'm doing a deep cleaning this aft after burning my 2nd ton of 100% softies, and I'm all psyched for the leaf blower 'ash dragon' - simple pleasures, you know......
I'm up on a small step stool on my rear deck that is next to my vent stack and when I turn on the blower, and it starts this god awful grinding and squealing noise, and sparks start flying out of the windings. I don't know if I should climb down and unplug it first or just pitch it into the yard before it starts on fire. Luckily I have insulated gloves on so I just yard the leaf blower off the top of the vent as it goes up in smoke in the snowbank next to the deck.
Unfortunately, I didn't have my cell phone with me to capture the melt-down moment. And yeh, yeh I know..... if there's no pics it didn't happen...... I'll go un bury it from the snowbank in the morning and post a pic of the carcass.
This is my 3rd leaf blower I've had cook since I started using it as an 'ash dragon' - though none of them in such dramatic fashion. I've had a Black and Decker, a Toro, and this one was a Craftsman, and I've only ever gotten a season or at most two out of them, though I do also use it to clean grass clippings off the garden tractor and occasionally the driveway in the summer time.
Has anyone else cooked their leaf blowers in similarly dramatic fashion ? Maybe the fine fly ash dust gets into the windings and seizes them up prematurely? Luckily, I didn't pay the price of crime and burn my farmhouse down in the process !!
I'm up on a small step stool on my rear deck that is next to my vent stack and when I turn on the blower, and it starts this god awful grinding and squealing noise, and sparks start flying out of the windings. I don't know if I should climb down and unplug it first or just pitch it into the yard before it starts on fire. Luckily I have insulated gloves on so I just yard the leaf blower off the top of the vent as it goes up in smoke in the snowbank next to the deck.
Unfortunately, I didn't have my cell phone with me to capture the melt-down moment. And yeh, yeh I know..... if there's no pics it didn't happen...... I'll go un bury it from the snowbank in the morning and post a pic of the carcass.
This is my 3rd leaf blower I've had cook since I started using it as an 'ash dragon' - though none of them in such dramatic fashion. I've had a Black and Decker, a Toro, and this one was a Craftsman, and I've only ever gotten a season or at most two out of them, though I do also use it to clean grass clippings off the garden tractor and occasionally the driveway in the summer time.
Has anyone else cooked their leaf blowers in similarly dramatic fashion ? Maybe the fine fly ash dust gets into the windings and seizes them up prematurely? Luckily, I didn't pay the price of crime and burn my farmhouse down in the process !!
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