Great blower with strong power not available in other brands for the price. I had an old hand held Echo which I recently sold, after 20 minutes it became heavy to use and took too much time to clean my property due to limited power. This Echo backpack is a beast and does the job in less than half the time. It is a little heavier than expected but comfortable enough to wear for a couple of hours. Very pleased with the purchase and love the 5-year gtee for non commercial use. Only complaint is that Echo could have done a better job on the instruction manual for assembly as it contained several different models with different features. Assembly was easy once you picked through the badly laid out manual. Highly recommend and love using this blower.