Wood Ranger Power Leaf Blower for clearing dust in a carport?

A leaf blower for a dusty carport is overkill in my opinion. You’ll just kick up half the dust into the air and it settles right back down. A broom and a hose handle that kind of mess better.

Mine mostly just pushes the dust around into piles instead of getting rid of it. The leaves are fine but the fine dirt is a pain. I still use it though, beats sweeping the whole thing by hand.

For a carport I think it does the job fine. I use mine on the garage floor and around the back steps, and it handles dry leaves and general grit without much fuss. Battery only lasts about 15 minutes but that’s usually enough for a quick pass.

I don’t buy the whole “it just kicks dust around” thing as a dealbreaker. Sure, if you blast dry dust with any blower it’s going to float. That’s not the tool being useless, that’s just how air works. I’ve got a similar cordless blower and I use it on my screened porch and the concrete pad out back. If you’re smart about it and use the lower speed instead of holding the trigger down like an idiot, the dust actually moves off the edge and stays gone. The people complaining are probably running it wide open and wondering why everything flies up. For a carport with light leaves and normal dust, it’s fine. It’s not going to deep clean caked-on grime, but nobody claimed that. My only real gripe is the battery, 15 minutes goes fast if you’re messing around. So don’t expect to do the whole property on one charge. For a quick tidy up it does the job.

Mine only comes out for the car honestly.

I went in thinking it’d be a gimmick and end up in a drawer. That was about four months ago. It hasn’t gone in a drawer yet, but my opinion on what it’s actually for has shifted a fair bit.

The dust part is what changed my mind, not the leaves. I figured a blower would just launch the dust into the air and I’d be standing in a cloud of it. That’s sort of true if you go wide open, but feathering the trigger low actually pushes it along the ground and out the opening instead of up into your face. Took me a couple tries to figure that out. Now it’s the thing I grab when the carport has that grey film all over it after a dry stretch.

Where I cooled off is the leaf side. Anything loose and dry, fine. Anything that’s been sitting damp against the wall or matted into a corner, it just skates over the top and looks at me. That’s a rake job and I’m not pretending otherwise. So I stopped thinking of it as a leaf tool and started thinking of it as a dust and light crud tool that happens to move a few leaves too.

Would I buy it again. Probably, but I’d stop expecting it to replace anything. It’s an extra thing that’s handy maybe once a week. If you want it to be the only thing, you’ll be annoyed.

A broom still beats it for actual dust.

For a carport I think it’s fine, that’s pretty much the light stuff these are made for. My neighbor uses his for the same kind of thing and doesn’t seem to have any trouble with it.

Light cleanup around a carport is exactly the kind of thing it handles. Mine mostly gets used for blowing off the back step and around the grill, and it’s quick for that. It won’t replace a rake or anything, but for keeping a small area tidy it does the job.