Husqvarna125B Gas Leaf Blower, 28-cc 1.1-HP 2-Cycle Handheld Leaf Blower, 470-CFM, 170-MPH, 12.5-N Powerful Clearing Performance and Ergonomic Design, Gifts for dad

I am very pleased with this leaf blower! I gased it up with proper premixed gasoline, pressed the primer bulb four times, set the choke briefly and the engine promptly started up with around four or five pulls on the pull start rope...first time start response; excellent. Construction is of high qaulity and handling feels good with no vibration at any speed. Accelleration is very responsive and smooth. I highly recommend this leaf blower.

So it has been 10yrs since purchasing this unit so I figure now is a good time to write a review. This thing is still kicking just fine. I have done literally nothing to it but put in gas and have had no issues outside of occasionally having to adjust the carburetor. I have never winterized the unit, replaced any parts, or maintained it in any fashion whatsoever and it just keeps working. Good money spent, highly suggest it. Also, I have a trimmer by the same manufacturer that I purchased around the same time and that thing is going like new with the same story. Just buy it.

I love this leaf blower. If you follow the instructions it starts easily. It is very powerful and not too heavy. It comes with two nozzles, a straight one and a flared one ( not even mentioned). It seams solid and well built.

I have had the thing for a week. The blower did not work well at all out of the box-- it was difficult to start, didn't idle well and stalled almost immediately when turning off the choke. Wide open, it ran sort of well (a bit rich) but that didn't really offset all the other problems. Reading the other reviews about the fuel line problems, I was debating whether to return the blower or try adjusting the carburetor/fuel lines.The problem is that the carburetor adjustment screws are very difficult to adjust-- they don't have a slot for a screwdriver and there is a shroud surrounding both screws making it difficult/impossible to turn with needle nose pliers. I fashioned caps for the screws that allowed me to adjust the screws with a screwdriver. The high speed needle needed to be closed a touch under 1/2 turn to run well and the low speed needle needed to come out 1 and 1/2 turns to idle properly. I was a bit shocked at how off the low speed adjustment was. I was then able to turn down the idle speed -- this one is done easily with a regular screwdriver. Supposedly you can buy a special tool to turn the needles but it costs ~$20. Another option is to take it to a Husqvarna authorized dealer for adjustment.I am now happy with the blower-- it idles well, accelerates cleanly, blows hard and is relatively quiet at idle. Would have given it 5 stars if it ran well out of the box or even 4 stars if carburetor was easier to adjust. Can't really blame Husqvarna-- I think the screws are mandated by air quality regulators to be not adjustable by the end user.TL/DR- didn't run worth a darn out of the box. Works great after carburetor adjustment.Edit: had it for about two years now. Still going strong. Gave another star.

I purchased this as a homeowner of a small 1/5 acre lot. I only used twice a month. When my fuel lines started leaking at 6 months, I called the Husqvarna help line and they sent me to a local dealer.The dealer said he would fix it, but not under warranty. He said Husqvarna would not honor warranty for fuel lines, they would blame owner for storing the tool with ethanol based fuel in the tank.Here is a news flash for Husqvarna.....I store all of my gas powered tools with fuel in the tank and my ECHO brand weedeater that is now 2 years old has never had an issue. I fuel them from the same gas can. My Craftsman gas tools have never had a problem, and they are 3 yrs old. Husqvarna obviously has a quality control problem here with these cheap fuel lines.My lines broke off at the same point that other reviewers mentioned. When I examined closely, there is a black rubber gasket that the 2 fuel lines go through to enter the fuel tank. This gasket squeezes the lines with pressure and you have the close contact of different rubbers and plastics touching each other. I believe that the reason the fuel lines failed, has to either be because they could not handle the pressure exerted on them by the rubber gasket or it is a chemical failure of where the two different materials of the gasket and the fuel line contact each other. I will try to post a picture, but the fuel line broke off almost even with the gasket and was misshaped, it had a smaller diameter where the gasket had been squeezing it. Similar to when you stretch a piece of plastic tubing and the part that stretches, gets smaller in diameter.Additionally, the fuel line that lays in the bottom of the fuel tank and is the most exposed to ethanol and its corrosive properties, was just fine. It was not damaged and when I pulled on it, it did not break or fray or crack. All of the damage was centered on where the gasket put pressure on the lines themselves.UPDATE: I managed to repair the fuel lines myself. It was fairly easy. It took me about 1.5 hours because I am not very good with mechanical stuff. A real mechanic could probably do it in 15 minutes.When I went to ACE Hardware, they sold 2 types of fuel lines. ONE was a yellow tinted, ethanol resistant fuel line for $1.40 per foot. The other was a clear, plain fuel line that was only .39 cents per foot. Guess which one most closely resembled the fuel line I was replacing from Husqvarna. You guessed it, the .39 cents per foot.I purchased the more expensive fuel lines and started to work. I will try to post pictures on Amazon. It is pretty simple, you remove the big black plastic nut that holds on the air filter cover, then remove the air filter. Now you will see 2 nuts that need to be removed. Then you will have access to all of the 3 fuel lines. The fuel lines are 2 different sizes, my local Ace sold them both. I just went in and purchased 2 feet of each size hose and that was plenty. I did not write down the diameter sizes, what I did was take in a piece of my broken fuel line I snipped off with some scissors. That way I could compare them. Then you just slowly pull off each old line and replace it with each new line. Pretty straight forward. No way to mess up, as long as you dont remove all of the lines at once and forget where they go. hahahaI feel like I have much better quality fuel lines now, they are formulated to be chemical resistant. So even if the gasket causes a chemical failure of the line, maybe these will be resistant to that.NON ETHANOL GASOLINEAs an additional helpful point, I found a website... you can Google ......pure-gas.org ........to find a station near you without ethanol. I don't disagree that ethanol is bad for gas tools. Ethanol is bad for fuel lines, etc. But I do not believe that ethanol is to blame for such a quick and total failure of this tool.

Superb blower! Very powerful and husband loves it!

Bought for home use. Primes easy, choke works, idles good, great airflow for light to medium duty use. I would actually say it lands more in the medium duty area of use. I've used this same exact blower at work to blow out loose gravel/sand from potholes before patching, blow out the shop bays and blow vegetation clippings off of 15 ft. batwing mower decks. The one at work has been through a lot of different hands, outdoor temperatures, daily abuse, back of multiple trucks, etc and has been going strong for over 2 years. I figured it passed the test to own one for my home.